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Daily Mirror
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Lizzy Buchan

Liz Truss admits mistake over claim no one's energy bills will exceed £2,500

Liz Truss has admitted that she "should have been more specific" when she incorrectly claimed that no one would pay more than £2,500 on their energy bills.

In a round of radio interviews defending her catastrophic mini-Budget, Ms Truss twice said that she was “making sure that nobody is paying fuel bills of more than £2,500”.

But the £2,500 figure is not a hard ceiling - it's the average yearly gas and electricity bill under the Government's two-year cap on unit prices.

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