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Can Liz Truss cling on? Politics Weekly UK

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What's the Prime Minister's Response to the Budget?

Last week she promised there would be absolutely no public spending cuts. Now it's clear there will be. Last week she was criticizing Labour for only advocating, capping energy bills for six months while she was offering two years. One hour or six months is her policy too. It's all a mess, isn't it, Summer? The problem with this is because her unfunded tax cuts was such an error. She's actually taking on a lot of stuff that would have happened anyway,. So the rate of borrowing was going to rise just not as sharply as it has now. Mr Speaker, those spending cuts are on the table for one reason and one reason only because they crashed the economy

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