Select band of economists back Liz Truss’s tax plan, but Rishi Sunak’s team say it could cost homeowners £6,600 a year

Liz Truss is short of heavyweight support for her plan to cut taxes immediately if she succeeds Boris Johnson as prime minister. Last week, when questioned on the Radio 4 Today programme, she came up with only one name: Professor Patrick Minford.

So it came as little surprise to find a letter appearing in the Daily Telegraph signed by a group of economists endorsing Truss’s proposal.

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