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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Abbi Garton-Crosbie

Liz Truss forced to apologise for £2500 energy bill price cap bungle in radio interviews

PRIME Minister Liz Truss has been forced to apologise for bungling the specifics of her government’s energy price cap during a car crash round of local radio interviews last week.

When Truss was interviewed by a series of local BBC Radio stations on Thursday ahead of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, she repeatedly stated that consumers' power bills would be “no more than £2500”.

However, Truss was accused of mixing up the "basic facts" of her own policy in seven our of eight.

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