Earlier,she told the BBC that she should have laid the ground better before Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced the abolition of the 45p tax rate,a bracket in which those on the highest incomes pay 45 per cent tax.
“I have learnt from that,” Truss told the BBC. “I will make sure in future we do a better job of laying the ground.”
But she also appeared to put some distance between herself and her close friend,saying it was Kwarteng’s decision to abolish the top rate of tax and that it was not taken to cabinet.
“It was a decision the chancellor made,” she said.
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It was a choice that forced the Bank of England to intervene to prop up the bond market,while fears that the bank will raise interest rates caused mortgage lenders to withdraw their cheapest deals,causing turmoil for home buyers.
But Truss said she was sticking by her economic growth plan,as she headed to the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham to address the party members who endorsed her becoming prime minister last month.