Rishi Sunak attacks Liz Truss’s plans to curb Bank of England’s independence

Rishi Sunak said the government needs to ‘let the Bank of England get on with its job with interest rates’. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Liz Truss’s plans to curb the independence of the Bank of England could spook investors and “be bad for all of us”, Rishi Sunak has said as he continued to attack her economic policy.

Sunak, a former chancellor, said the government needed to “let the Bank of England get on with its job with interest rates”.