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Watch: Liz Truss backer let’s the veil slip as he tries to justify tax cuts for the rich

Right-wing economist Andrew Lilico let the veil slip during a Sky News interview discussing Liz Truss’s mini-budget.

The new PM took Britain on a trip down Inequality Street after chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng handed tax cuts to the rich and removed the limit on bankers’ annual pay-outs.

He also announced that hundreds of thousands of people on benefits will have to take active steps to seek more and better-paid work or risk getting their income support slashed.

Speaking on Sky News, Andrew Lilico, a proponent of the mini-budget, said equality is an “incorrect policy objective” that is not morally or economically sound.

Watch the horrifying clip in full below:

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Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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