NEWS STORY : Liz Truss Issues Legal Threat to Keir Starmer Over His Claims She Crashed the Economy

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Liz Truss, the former Prime Minister, has sent a legal threat to Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, demanding that he stop repeating that she “crashed the economy” during her period in office. The mini-budget in September 2022 led to the falling of the pound to its weakest level since decimalisation and Truss ordered a reversal of the budget, but her lawyers said in the letter that the economy did not crash as GDP or employment did not immediately fall.

Truss was forced from office after just 49 days and there was cross-party condemnation of her budget, with Rishi Sunak later stating:

“Everyone knows that two years ago I wasn’t afraid to repeatedly warn about what her economic policies would lead to, even if it wasn’t what people wanted to hear at the time.”

Lucy Powell, the Leader of the House, said in response to the unusual demand that “we won’t cease and desist from telling the truth that the Conservatives crashed the economy.”

A spokesperson for Keir Starmer said in a statement:

“I think you can ask people up and down the country what the impact of previous economic management was on their mortgages, on inflation, and I think you’ll get similar answers.”