LONDON: United Kingdom Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday defended her tax cuts policy despite it triggering market turmoil and forcing the Bank of England (BoE) to intervene to prevent "material risk" to the British economy.

"We had to take urgent action to get our economy growing, get Britain moving and also deal with inflation," Truss told local station BBC Radio Leeds in her first comments since the crisis sparked by Friday's mini-budget announcement.

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