What help will Liz Truss provide households and businesses with the coming cost-of-living crisis? That’s the question the frontrunner of the Tory leadership was pressed on as the Foreign Secretary appeared on the BBC’s inaugural Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show. After ducking out of a planned interview earlier this week with Nick Robinson, Truss once again refused to get into specifics as to what her offer to the public will be if she – as expected – is announced as the winner of the Tory leadership contest on Monday.
She did, however, give a timeline for action should she enter 10 Downing Street. Truss said she would act within one week of becoming Prime Minister – adding that she wanted to reassure voters that she understood the scale of the crisis with ‘eye watering’ bills and help would be coming. As for what this help would look like, Truss refused to say either way whether it could involve freezing the price cap – in a move similar to what Labour’s Keir Starmer has advocated.
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