A former PM is haunting Rishi Sunak – and this time it’s not Boris!

Johnson’s toxic legacy may still be looming over the prime minister, but now he has another headache caused by a predecessor who can’t stay out of the limelight, writes Andrew Grice

No tax cuts might provoke an all-out Tory civil war, even though an election is imminent (PA)

Liz Truss is back on the warpath today, fighting on her favourite territory of how to get economic growth – via tax cuts, of course.

It’s yet another headache for Rishi Sunak and, in a classic case of bad timing for him and good timing for Truss, comes as he plays down the prospect of pre-election tax reductions.

Sunak told journalists en route to the Nato summit in Vilnius that while he wanted to cut taxes, reducing inflation and being responsible with government borrowing is “the overriding economic priority, and that takes precedence over everything else... We are going to make sure that we bring inflation down, and we don't do anything to make the situation worse or last longer".