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”.
Shapps, who had been a critic of Truss as prime minister but served as home secretary in her administration for a few days towards the end of her premiership, said many Conservatives did agree the tax burden should not be as high.
“She makes a perfectly valid point that somebody’s obviously got to be agitating for making the good arguments for the reasons why a lower-tax economy in the longer run can be a very successful economy,” he said. “I think you’ve got to set this within an international picture, which is Ukraine was invaded, energy prices went through the roof.
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