Liz Truss’s ‘Growth Commission’? More like ‘the Dark Money Commission’

New free market ‘taskforce’ is almost entirely made up of senior figures from US and UK think tanks who have been funded by fossil fuels, climate change deniers, Big Tobacco and more.

Liz Truss was back in the headlines this week, when she appeared at the launch of a new lobby group called the Growth Commission on Wednesday.

Some commentators pointed out the irony of a prime minister who tanked the pound - and failed to outlast a lettuce - saying that her widely criticised mini budget “may pay off in the long term.”

Truss’s acolytes, o…