Are Labour About to Pull a "Liz Truss"?

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Just over two years ago, Liz Truss stepped down, following a disastrous mini budget that elicited huge backlash among the investors and media. Today though, some economics have made this exact same comparison to Rachel Reeves, and that it could trigger a smaller scale repeat of the chaos.

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