Badenoch not telling truth about Tory failures, says Truss
UNITED KINGDOM, AUG 3 – Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch dispute the impact of the 2022 mini-Budget tax cuts, with Truss defending her policies and Badenoch blaming them for economic instability.
- On Sunday, former Prime Minister Liz Truss alleged Kemi Badenoch is not truthful about Tory failures and sparred over her mini-Budget from nearly three years ago.
- Amid simmering party tensions, Badenoch argued Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves made bigger mistakes by borrowing more and avoiding spending cuts, marking her first public criticism of Truss’s mini-Budget.
- Truss asserted in The Telegraph that Badenoch was repeating spurious narratives and aimed to divert from the real failures of 14 years of Conservative government.
- Truss argued the failure to repeal the Human Rights Act was a fatal mistake, criticizing `draconian lockdowns and Covid spending` and the surge in immigration under Rishi Sunak.
- Truss warned the Conservative Party faces serious trouble if it does not start acknowledging its mistakes and cautioned that without honesty to supporters, the party risks grave consequences.
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Truss takes a pop at Badenoch over Tory record
Uh oh. As if Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch didn’t have enough on her plate with the rise of Reform eating into the Tory vote, now one of her predecessors has taken a pop at her. Liz Truss has taken to the august pages of the Telegraph to attack Badenoch, accusing the Leader of the Opposition
Kemi Badenoch now criticises Liz Truss’ mini budget, but she was a cheerleader for it at the time
The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch issued a heavy criticism of the Labour government’s economic policies in the Telegraph this weekend. Alone, this would be unremarkable. An opposition leader criticising the government is hardly surprising. What was significant was the nature of that criticism. Badenoch wrote “For all their mocking of Liz Truss, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have not learnt the lessons of the mini-budget and are making even bigger m…
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