Truss’s PMQs comment at odds with Downing Street and Treasury’s previous refusal to commit to pledge
Liz Truss has called off a planned visit and media clip amid continued chaos, shortly after she pledged to maintain the so-called triple lock guarantee on pension increases.
But at prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, when the SNP’s Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, asked her about pension increases, Truss said: “I honestly don’t know what he is talking about because we have been clear in our manifesto that we will maintain the triple lock and I am completely committed to it. So is the chancellor.”
The first question of the session, from the Labour MP Justin Madders, set the tone, asking if Truss would explain “why the chancellor lost his job but she kept hers”. Starmer began by playfully noting that a new biography of Truss was being written. “Apparently it’s going to be out by Christmas,” he said. “Is that the release date or the title?”
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