Liz Truss has defended the Government’s mini-budget as the “right plan” even after it sent the pound tumbling and forced the Bank of England to launch emergency action to prop up pension funds.
During a round of local radio interviews, she backed Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s fiscal statement on Friday but stopped short of guaranteeing people’s pensions were secure. She said: “I am very clear the Government has done the right thing. This is the right plan that we’ve set out.”
