Labour responds to Liz Truss refusing to say whether she trusts Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng

Pat McFadden MP, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, responding to Liz Truss refusing to say whether she trusts Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, said:

“This is a Tory crisis made in Downing Street. The Prime Minister and the Chancellor must both accept responsibility for it.

“They have undermined trust in the UK economy and people will pay the price through higher mortgage payments.

“The fact that the Prime Minister can’t even say she trusts her Chancellor tells you all you need to know about the architects of the economic chaos into which they have plunged the country.

“Instead of disowning the problem and blaming one another they must put the country first and abandon their discredited trickle down approach.”