Liz Truss to claim her economic plan would have saved government £35bn

Liz Truss will claim that Rishi Sunak’s government has spent £35bn more than she would have as prime minister, in a speech on Monday.

The short-lived prime minister will use a speech at the Institute for Government to defend and explain her time in charge, nearly a year on from the ill-fated mini-budget that helped end her premiership.

According to the Telegraph, Truss will point out that under her plans £18.4bn would have been saved in…