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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot

Liz Truss’s claim she was not warned about mini-budget risks ‘misleading’

Liz Truss
Liz Truss said specifically that no concerns had been raised about liability-driven investments, which pension funds use to cover their obligations. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA

Senior economists and the former chancellor George Osborne have cast doubt over Liz Truss’s account that she was not warned about the risks to the UK economy as she prepared her mini-budget.

Truss, in her first major intervention since leaving office, wrote that she had “not [been] given a realistic chance to enact my policies by a very powerful economic establishment, coupled with a lack of political support”.

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