Truss Rules Out Fresh UK Windfall Tax and Defends Energy Profits.

(Bloomberg) -- Conservative leadership front-runner Liz Truss has ruled out a fresh windfall tax on energy companies if she becomes prime minister, insisting profit is not a "dirty word." Read more: Boris Johnson Meets Energy Firms as UK Winter Crisis Looms Ministers would "evaluate the extraordinary profits seen in certain parts of the electricity generation sector and the appropriate and proportionate steps to take", Zahawi said. [Extracted from the article]