Former prime minister Liz Truss took to X to assert, “I am the only Prime Minister who has sought to take on the broken system. That is why I am relentlessly attacked by @Keir_Starmer, who is their ultimate creature. It won’t work. The public can see through this.”
Cue the online chaos.
💸 Mini-budget backlash
Truss’s outburst follows the Tory Party’s formal apology for her infamous mini-budget. Shadow chancellor Mel Stride didn’t hold back:
“The credibility of the UK’s economic framework was undermined by spending billions on subsidising energy bills and tax cuts, with no proper plan for how this would be paid for.”
⚔️ Truss fights back…or tries to
In her X post, Truss took a swing at Stride:
“In attacking the Mini Budget, @MelJStride sides with the failed Treasury Orthodoxy. Stride is a creature of the system. When he served alongside me as Treasury Minister, he always went along with officials – including on the Loan Charge and IR35, damaging the self-employed and SMEs. He backed Sunak’s huge spending, but not my tax cuts which were smaller in size and would have increased growth. Britain’s system of government is broken. Nothing will change with people like him in charge.”
🤣 Internet reaction—shafted and lampooned
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