Watch: Truss defends 45p tax cut… after U-turn

Oh dear. It’s bad enough that Liz Truss has had to U turn on her 45p tax cut plan. But because she did it so late last night – at an emergency summit with Kwasi Kwarteng – it meant that Truss only did it after doing a round of ITV regional interviews, but before the embargo on the interviews. That means we now get to watch a series of TV clips of the Prime Minister defending a policy she has now abandoned.

Naturally the ITV journalists have only been too happy to share today clips of these exchanges in which Truss, in full Maggie mode, confidently declares there will be no shift in policy, mere hours before, er, a shift in policy. So much for joined up government. Mr S is wryly amused by all the briefing that it’s the fault of the comms teams in Numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street.