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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Liz Truss hits back at Tory shadow chancellor for mini-budget disavowal

Liz Truss.
Truss said Stride had ‘kowtowed to the failed Treasury orthodoxy’ and undermined her plans. Photograph: Noemi Bruzak/EPA

Liz Truss has hit out at the Conservatives’ shadow chancellor after he formally disowned her hastily reversed 2022 mini-budget, saying it had damaged the party’s reputation for economic competence.

The former prime minister labelled Mel Stride a “creature of the system”, part of a failed fiscal orthodoxy which, she argued, would prevent the Conservatives taking power again if left unchallenged.

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