Since the government announced its 'mini budget' on Friday, September 23, Liz Truss and her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng have faced quite the backlash. The Prime Minister attended a series of local radio interviews last week, her first public interviews since the mini budget announcement, where she defended the 'controversial and difficult decisions' the government had made.
She was also 'called out' by a BBC Bristol radio presenter for, he said, giving 'scripted answers' and a former Cabinet minister has since said that, unless she drops her plan to hand tax cuts to the rich, she will be "ousted from her job before Christmas". The Prime Minister has also faced criticism from her own party over how she has handled the economy at her first Tory conference as leader.
But, here in Bristol, Tory Councillor Mark Weston has said he thinks the PM's tax cutting agenda has been "broadly correct", though he feels that reducing the 45% top rate was a "premature" move which has now been acknowledged by Mr Kwarteng. He also believes that the new government deserves "enormous credit" for the Energy Price Guarantee, though added that he feels Liz Truss needs to "urgently address an obvious communications problem in her Downing Street team".
