Liz Truss has described the blame she received over her mini-budget as "pathetic." Ms Truss was forced to stand down as prime minister in 2022 when her "mini budget" triggered a market meltdown. Speaking on stage at the Conservatives conference in Birmingham, the former prime minister said: "How on earth can we move forward as a country if people can't actually talk about the facts but instead throw insults around? I just think that's pathetic." Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00That's complete economic illiteracy.
00:02You know, when I got into government,
00:04taxes were already at a 70-year high.
00:08The government was spending the amount it was spending.
00:11The debt was going up.
00:13I tried to turn that around,
00:16but the mini-budget was not implemented
00:18because organizations like the Bank of England
00:22sought to blame their mistakes on me.
00:26So why was there a spike in the market
00:28after the mini-budget answer the Bank of England's failures?
00:33And the Labour Party,
00:34and even elements of the Conservative Party,
00:36are saying, there was my fault.
00:38How on earth can we move forward as a country
00:41if people can't actually talk about the facts
00:44but instead throw insults around?
00:47I just think that's pathetic.