‘A reverse Robin Hood’: key exchanges from Liz Truss’s radio interviews

Liz Truss: ‘We had to take urgent action to get our economy growing, get Britain moving and also deal with inflation.’ Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images

After days of market turmoil and currency volatility since the “fiscal event” of the chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, last week, Liz Truss has run the gauntlet of local radio with a series of back-to-back morning interviews with stations from Bristol to Teesside, Norfolk to Lancashire. Below is a selection of the prime minister’s most difficult exchanges.

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