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Liz Truss brushes off concerns about £8.8bn black hole in her budget

Abandoned policy ‘misinterpreted … by the media’, Tory leadership frontrunner tells party members at hustings in Cardiff

Liz Truss has said an £8.8bn black hole in her savings budget caused by her abandoning a policy to cut public sector wages was not part of her “central costings” for funding a range of spending pledges, as she suggested the policy had been a “mistake”.

Quizzed for the first time in front of Conservative members on a controversial policy that she was forced to U-turn on earlier this week, the frontrunner in the Tory leadership race said she never intended to slash the pay of teachers and nurses.

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