Liz Truss’s claim she was not warned about mini-budget risks ‘misleading’

Senior economists and ex-chancellor George Osborne round on former PM after she says Treasury officials raised no concerns

Senior economists and the former chancellor George Osborne have cast doubt over Liz Truss’s account that she was not warned about the risks to the UK economy as she prepared her mini-budget.

Truss, in her first major intervention since leaving office, wrote that she had “not [been] given a realistic chance to enact my policies by a very powerful economic establishment, coupled with a lack of political support”.

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