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The winter of our discontent: the politics of Truss and turmoil
Don't look for the electoral logic in our new PM's ‘neoliberal jihad’ — there isn't any: she is on a suicide mission to do as much irreversible damage to our democracy and our environment as she can, warns ALAN SIMPSON

FORGET celebrating the government’s screeching U-turn over plans to cut the top rate of tax on high earners. The Liz Truss administration is already a car crash with few survivors.
Once Tory MPs found that even in their most loyal areas, they couldn’t go down the street without being abused, it was only a matter of time before the tax cut was ditched.
For the moment, attention turns to MPs who have made complete plonkers of themselves, trailing vacuous arguments in praise of the tax-cut from one TV interview to another. Serious politics, however, moves to a bigger stage.
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