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Tory rebel Shapps says PM has admitted that she rushed into tax cut
Evening Standard
|October 03, 2022
TORY rebel Grant Shapps insisted today that he did not want Liz Truss to be toppled as Prime Minister after the humiliating U-turn over the top rate of tax.
Mr Shapps, who was sacked by Ms Truss as transport secretary after she took office last month, joined forces with another ex-minister, Michael Gove, yesterday to say they wouldn't be able to support the Government on the highly contentious measure.
Their intervention triggered other Tory MPs, including Steve Double and Maria Caulfield, to row in behind them, suggesting Ms Truss and her Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, were facing a major backbench revolt.
Welcoming Mr Kwarteng's reversal this morning, Mr Shapps said the plan to remove the 45p tax rate for the country's highest earners was a policy "jarred". Asked how damaged the Prime Minister was, he replied on BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I want the Prime Minister to survive. I want the Conservatives to win the next election.
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