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It wasn't me: Ex-UK PM Truss blames 'system' for her failure
1 month ago | By My Sanantonio
LONDON - Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss says her failure wasn't her fault.
Truss on Sunday blamed a “powerful economic establishment” and internal Conservative Party opposition for the rapid collapse of her government, and said she still believes her tax-cutting policies were the right ones.
Britain's shortest-serving prime minister resigned in October, six weeks into the job, after her inaugural budget plan sparked market mayhem.
Breaking her post-premiership silence in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, Truss said she underestimated the resistance her free-market policies would...
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