Tories will ‘never again’ put economy at risk like Liz Truss did, Mel Stride to say

Shadow chancellor to accept Truss’s mini-budget badly damaged party in clearest repudiation yet of ex-PMThe Conservatives will “never again” risk the economy with unfunded tax cuts like those in Liz Truss’s mini-budget, the shadow chancellor is to say in the party’s clearest repudiation yet of the former prime minister.Making a speech on the economy, Mel Stride is expected to go beyond any comments made by the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, thus far to accept that Truss’s September 2022 fiscal plans, which involved about £45bn in unfunded tax cuts and quickly unravelled, badly dented the reputation of the party. Continue reading...

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