In her first detailed comments since she was forced out of Downing Street, the former prime minister did admit she was not 'blameless' but 'underestimated the resistance' to her policies.
Read more:While her experience last autumn was personally"bruising", Ms Truss believed that over the medium term her policies would have increased growth and brought down debt.
"It rapidly became a market stability issue and we had to act to stabilise the situation. While the government was focused on investigating what had happened and taking action to remedy the situation, political and media commentators cast an immediate verdict blaming the mini-budget. She said that while, with the benefit of hindsight, she would have acted differently, she said that she had had to battle against the"instinctive views of the Treasury" and"the wider orthodox economic ecosystem".Market chaos that ended Trussonomics - Ed Conway
"Frankly, we were also pushing water uphill. Large parts of the media and the wider public sphere had become unfamiliar with key arguments about tax and economic policy and over time sentiment had shifted left-wards," she said.
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