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Raab: Truss emergency budget plan risks becoming Tory election suicide note

Liz Truss' emergency tax cut budget at risk of becoming ``wills'' ofConservative Party, Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab } argues.

Raab, a supporter of Tory leader Rishi Sunak, said Truss would offer a "limited" tax cut through her plan to repeal the national insurance hike.

He described the policy proposal as "bad politics" and dominated the race to succeed Boris Johnson as the next prime minister.

Kwasi Kwarten, Greg Clarke, Pretty Patel, Dominic Raab, Liz Truss, Ben Wallace (Stéphane Rousseau/PA)

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She has been on the defensive in recent days after suggesting that if she wins, there will be no "subsidy" and her priority is to reduce the tax burden.

However, her supporters claim she is dedicated to helping families struggling with soaring bills, and further direct assistance is not ruled out.

Ms Truss' plan to reverse the National Insurance increase, brought in by Mr Sunak as Prime Minister to increase funding for the NHS and social services, is not enough to help the most vulnerable. have been criticized for not providing sufficient amounts.

Sunak also indicated plans to extend her package of support, introduced during her stint at theMinistry of Finance, to ease the cost of soaring energy bills. suggesting.

With inflation projected to reach 13% by the Bank of England and average household utility bills projected to reach nearly £4,000, Conservative MPs are urging Whitehall's departments to said it intends to put pressure on people to save to cover the costs. Supporting millions of people during the "extremely harsh" winters.

His supporter Mr Raab wrote in The Times:

``If we were to visit the country in September with an emergency budget that could not meet the challenges at hand, voters would have to wait until their living standards had declined and their cherished financial security taken away.

"Such failures will undoubtedly be read by the masses like an election suicide note, and night after night will ensure that our great party becomes the impotence of the opposition."

"That's the prize, that's the danger.

"If the Conservative government makes the right choice this fall, We can once again show that we have the power to lead this country through a difficult time into a better future.

"Similarly, wrong moves are economically damaging and politically deadly.

``The response to the challenges people face has been limited to tax cuts, with little to no benefit for the most vulnerable. It's not conservative politics, it's bad politics.

"It opens door number 10 to Sir Kiel Sturmer, backed by the Liberal Democrats and the SNP. Put Brexit and the Commonwealth at risk, ending the opportunity to make the 2020s a decade of low tax rates and high growth.”

Mr. Sunak seeks “efficiency savings” across government sectors. By doing so, it aims to keep one-off borrowings to an “absolute minimum”.

His team said the approach aims to replicate previous measures used to fund aid to Ukraine.

As a result, departments and devolved administrations are called upon to find underspending from their capital budgets, including funds spent on investments and those used to generate future growth. was given.

Elsewhere, Ms. Truss used an interview with the Daily Express to say that her "starry sky boosterism" would not help solve the problems facing the country.

Mr Truss also suggested that the Treasury Department failed to focus sufficiently on growth during Sunak's tenure as prime minister.

She said: She doesn't think the Treasury Department has focused enough on economic growth," she said.

The Truss campaign also said it would make tackling anti-social behavior a "high priority" if the potential leader were to become prime minister.

Mr Truss delivered on the Conservative party's manifesto commitment to recruiting 20,000 new police officers, devoting them to frontline policing and eliminating the "undue burden of paperwork". , her campaign said.

Before a hustling session with party members in Darlington, the so-called 'red wall' area that turned blue under Mr Johnson's leadership in 2019, the two Conservative leadership candidates He will continue his campaign on Tuesday.