Liz Truss faces mutiny from her MPs over plans for a tax cut for the rich

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Liz Truss yesterday committed to ensuring that pensions would rise in line with inflation, but refused to make the same commitment for benefits and for government spending on public services.
52% : Michael Gove told the Telegraph that it would be "very, very, very difficult" to argue that it was right to slash benefits whilst cutting tax for the highest earners.
47% : Tory MPs including Michael Gove, the former levelling up secretary, indicated that they would vote against a financial package in the House of Commons if it included measures such as the cut to the top rate of tax.
46% : "We cannot clap for carers one month & cut tax for millionaires months later," added the North Yorkshire MP.
44% : At least a dozen Tory MPs have now confirmed that they disagreed with axing the top rate of tax, as the size of the backbench rebellion against the Prime Minister's plans grew over the weekend.
40% : He predicted that the cut to the top rate of tax would end in "humiliating defeat" in the House of Commons, which Mr Kwarteng should avoid by backing down and withdrawing it.
35% : He told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that cutting taxes for high earners while the public struggle to pay bills was a "display of the wrong values".
33% : Liz Truss is facing a backbench rebellion from senior MPs after they were threatened with deselection if they voted against her plans to cut taxes.

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