Victoria Derbyshire Skewers Senior Tory Who Won't Say Sorry For Liz Truss

Helen Whately on Newsnight with Victoria Derbyshire.A senior Tory MP was skewered by Newsnight presenter Victoria Derbyshire after she refused to apologise for the chaos caused by Liz Truss.Shadow work and pensions secretary Helen Whately had been demanding that Labour say sorry over Rachel Reeves’ U-turn on winter fuel payments.But Derbyshire turned the tables when she pointed out that while her Tory frontbench colleagues Mel Stride and Chris Philp had both criticised Truss over her disastrous mini-Budget, neither of them apologised for the economic damage it did to the country.She said: “In recent days your own shadow chancellor, your own shadow home secretary, could not bring themselves to say sorry for Liz Truss. Maybe you could do it?”Whately replied: “They have said, my colleagues have said, we have said, we reckon that we got things wrong as a government.”Derbyshire then asked: “Why is it so hard to say the actual word, though? You want Labour to say sorry – you won’t.”The Tory MP then accused the presenter of “chasing the gotcha” with her question.“With the winter fuel situation, there were thousands of pensioners, who went without that winter fuel payment over the winter,” she said.Derbyshire then pointed out that “thousands of people’s mortgages” as a result of the spike in interest rates caused by the mini-Budget.Undeterred, Whately went on: “Actually, to me there’s a very human cost to what happened last winter, and that’s the sort of thing that requires an apology.”“Why is it so hard to say the actual word?”@vicderbyshire challenges Shadow Work & Pensions Secretary Helen Whately to say “sorry” for Liz Truss’s premiership#Newsnightpic.twitter.com/eLm8RhcakR— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) June 9, 2025Related...Analysis: Rachel Reeves Has Been Left Humiliated By Winter Fuel U-TurnRevealed: Which Pensioners Will Get Winter Fuel Payments Again After Labour U-Turn

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