UK's Truss Drops Tax Break for Wealthy But Austerity Threat Remains Amid 'Tory Class War'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : They include a £13 billion ($14.7 billion) reduction in national insurance, which gives the biggest benefit to better-off voters, and a £17 billion ($19.2 billion) plan to reverse a corporation tax rise -- a policy that business leaders have said is not a priority.
41% : That message was echoed by Labour Party MP Rachel Reeves, who said Monday in a statement responding to Truss and Kwarteng's about-face on slashing taxes for Britain's richest households that "they need to reverse their whole economic, discredited trickle-down strategy."
38% : Progressives welcomed right-wing British Prime Minister Liz Truss' Monday decision to scrap a widely condemned tax break for wealthy individuals but warned of looming public spending cuts tied to planned corporate giveaways and called for a reversal of the decadeslong neoliberal model that has brought the United Kingdom to the brink of an economic calamity.

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