Truss and Kwarteng made ‘worst first impression’ in UK political history, SNP conference told

Black told his party the ‘fairytale economics’ of Liz Truss’s summer leadership campaign had become everyone else’s nightmare this autumn and winter. Photograph: Russell Cheyne/Reuters

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget “will go down as one of the worst financial interventions in modern history”, the Scottish National party’s Westminster leader has said.

Speaking on the first day of the party’s conference in Aberdeen, Ian Blackford took aim at the pair over the economic consequences of their “fiscal event”. “Only a matter of weeks into their new roles, the disastrous duo of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have crashed the economy, sent the pound plummeting, put pension funds at risk and caused mayhem for mortgage holders,” Blackford said.