References to Truss’s ‘Disastrous’ Mini-Budget Removed from King’s Speech Brief

References to former Prime Minister Liz Truss and language that included descriptions of her mini budget as being “disastrous” have been removed from government documents. Ms. Truss said on Wednesday in a letter to the head of the Civil Service, Simon Case, that the politicised remarks included in briefing notes on the content of the King’s Speech breached rules on impartiality. The text pertained to the government’s Budget Responsibility Bill, which seeks to require any significant proposed changes to taxation be assessed by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). The original briefing document said that the bill will “ensure that the mistakes of Liz Truss [sic] ‘mini budget’ cannot be repeated.”...