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UK’s shortest-serving PM Liz Truss blames economic ‘orthodoxy’ for downfall

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Truss's tenure was cut short last year after her largely unfunded mini budget and tax cuts pushed up borrowing costs and mortgage rates. She blamed the reaction not only on what she described as the left-leaning orthodoxy of the economic establishment. Truss also said she had underestimated "the resistance inside the Conservative parliamentary party"

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