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Oliver Dowden: Liz Truss' plan not up to the job

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Oliver Dowden: Liz Truss' plan not up to the job

Oliver Dowden: Liz Truss' plan not up to the job

Conservative MP Oliver Dowden says Liz Truss' promise to reduce National Insurance is "not up to the job", given the "scale of the energy hikes likely to come".

Mr Dowden says Rishi Sunak should be "judged by his record", having "saved tens of millions of jobs", after introducing the furlough scheme during the Covid pandemic.

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