{"id":136764,"date":"2022-09-20T16:59:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T16:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/liz-truss-says-she-is-prepared-to-be-unpopular-as-she-sets-out-policies-aimed-at-delivering-growth-as-it-happened"},"modified":"2022-09-20T16:59:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T16:59:57","slug":"liz-truss-says-she-is-prepared-to-be-unpopular-as-she-sets-out-policies-aimed-at-delivering-growth-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/liz-truss-says-she-is-prepared-to-be-unpopular-as-she-sets-out-policies-aimed-at-delivering-growth-as-it-happened","title":{"rendered":"Liz Truss says she is prepared to be unpopular as she sets out policies aimed at delivering growth &#8211; as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5.46pm BST Afternoon summary Liz Truss has vowed to review all tax rates to help struggling households and businesses through the cost of living crisis, in her latest break from Treasury orthodoxy. In interviews in New York, the new prime minister also said she was prepared to be unpopular as she delivered pro-growth policies, such as lifting the cap on bankers&#8217; bonuses (see 3.35pm ), and rejected claims her economic plan would prompt the Bank of England to raise interest rates (see 4.18pm ). Truss has given her full support to the No 10 chief of staff, Mark Fullbrook , after it emerged he was questioned as a witness as part of a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) inquiry into alleged bribery in Puerto Rico. Mel Stride, the Tory chair of the Treasury select committee has urged Kwasi Kwarteng to allow independent forecasts for the public finances to be published alongside his mini-budget on Friday Keir Starmer is set to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says chancellor will explain how tax cuts will be paid for on Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[305,295,42,421,102],"class_list":["post-136764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-brexit","tag-international-trade","tag-politics","tag-taxation","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}