Liz Truss rules out new taxes in final push for PM

Tory leadership front-runner is also planning a ‘full review of our tax system’

 Liz Truss at the final Conservative leadership election hustings in London
Liz Truss at the final Conservative leadership election hustings in London on 31 August
(Image credit: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Liz Truss has ruled out introducing new taxes if she is announced as the UK’s next prime minister on 5 September.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.