‘good thing to aim for’
Of course it is the end goal of the ultra wealthy to reduce their own tax burden and say it is good for the country.
Interpreting this sympathetically for a moment: Her aim was to give a much-needed boost to economic growth. That’s also Labour’s ‘aim’, per their manifesto. It wasn’t a bad objective, but she deployed a terrible strategy and no discernible tactics.
That said, I fully expect - indeed, as a member of the Labour party, demand - that Labour will interpret this unsympathetically and run as many attack ads as possible saying ‘JEREMY HUNT EXPRESSES UNCONDITIONAL FOR LOVE LIZ TRUSS’. After all, the Tories won’t shut up about Starmer supporting Corbyn to be PM, and he never even was PM.
I would give her a bit more sympathy if she’d had the guts to let the OBR (or literally anyone at all) take a look at her budget proposal. If she legitimately thought that it would work, then there would be no reason to hide them from public scrutiny. But she did hide them from public scrutiny, which means she had some inkling that they would not be reviewed favorably.
It also doesn’t help that she’s shown absolutely no remorse feelings of responsibility over the fact that she crashed the economy, but as per the Tory handbook, it’s always somebody else’s fault.
