Liz Truss news live: Penny Mordaunt tells PM benefits should rise with inflation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : It promises to be another busy start to the day after yesterday's early U-turn on scrapping the top rate of income tax, with Liz Truss doing a round of morning media interviews.
50% :It was suggested to Liz Truss during her interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the country has discovered that this "lady is for turning" - a reference to the famous Margaret Thatcher quote - because of the U-turn on income tax.
45% : "There is still a lot to play for."Lord Hague, the former leader of the Conservative Party, said that he hopes that the Government can learn from its U-turn on income tax and the political chaos of recent days.
43% : Here is the full exchange between the Prime Minister and LBC Radio's Nick Ferrari:Liz Truss has insisted that the policy to scrap the 45p rate of income tax "wasn't a major part of the package".
41% : "As I say, cutting the welfare bill can be done a number of ways, there are other ways to do that and of course it illustrates the wider political problem of where do you find cuts, the two biggest government budgets are health and welfare and it's politically difficult to cut either of those budgets."

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