LIZ Truss has broken her silence on the fallout from the Tory government’s mini-budget – arguing that she and her ministers had to take “urgent action” to get the UK’s economy going.
The Prime Minister was facing intense pressure to speak up as the pound plunged, the IMF gave an extraordinary statement and the Bank of England was forced to intervene on her government’s tax-slashing measures.
In a series of eight pause-filled interviews with BBC local radio stations in England – snubbing Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – Truss doubled down on the Chancellor’s strategy with a number of scripted lines.
