FORMER Prime Minister Liz Truss has criticised Rishi Sunak’s government for slow growth and failing to deliver lower taxes.
She told GB News: “I believe that the problems that I was trying to fix last year still haven’t gone away.
“The fact is the country isn’t growing fast enough. People are struggling with the cost of living and we need to get on with delivering lower taxes but also reforms to things like energy and housing, to make life cheaper for people and give people more opportunities.”
In an interview with GB News’ Economics & Business Editor Liam Halligan, she denied that she crashed the economy.
Ms Truss said: “That’s simply not true. The fact is that mortgage rates have been higher than they were when I was in office, since I left office, and also the gilt rates, the government bond rates, have been higher as well.
“So the problems that we have were not created by me. I was trying to fix them. And they are still there in our economy.
“And this is why we need to change the fact that the Government is too big and is now spending 46% of GDP. That’s nearly half of every pound spent in Britain is spent by the Government.
“And I want to see a free enterprise economy where businesses succeed where we have less regulation, and we need to work hard to get that.”
She added: “Somebody’s got to advocate these policies. And the fact is all my critics, they might point fingers at me, but they don’t have an alternative. What’s their alternative for getting higher growth?
“How are they going to help people across Britain? How are they going to get more houses? I don’t hear that from them.
“I’m not interested in finger pointing. I’m interested in which policies are going to deliver for our country.”
