He promises to raise pensions to the same level as inflation in the United Kingdom
MADRID, 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Liz Truss, has justified this Wednesday before the deputies the economic fluctuations of her Government and has made it clear that she does not plan to resign. “I am a fighter, not someone who gives up,” she has stressed twice.
Truss, under pressure from the opposition but also from his fellow ‘Tories’, has defended that, although he has made “mistakes”, he has always acted out of “the national interest” and for the sake of “economic stability”, days after ousting the previous finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, and virtually dismantling the tax reform he announced in September.
The prime minister has recognized the difficulty of the current economic context, but has defended that she will not apologize for trying to take measures that contribute to prop up the UK economy and help households to reduce, for example, the energy bill.
It has also reaffirmed its commitment to the “triple key” of pensions, which in practice implies that pensions will be revalued next year according to inflation. This ‘triple key’ requires updating 2.5 percent or at the same level as the IPC or the average wage rises.
For his part, the leader of the opposition, Labor Keir Starmer, has returned to the charge against Truss stating that if she was elected in September it was with a view to building an economic fantasy and that it has ended in disaster, according to the BBC.
“Your finance minister has left. Why is he still here?” Starmer asked, who has broadened the focus to blame not only Truss for the current situation but also the entire Conservative Party, which elected the former minister of Foreign Affairs in place of Boris Johnson in Downing Street.
“Why should the British population trust the ‘Tories’ when it comes to the economy?” Asked the opposition leader, who is trading higher in some polls that show the government party at minimal levels of support. According to a poll published by YouGov on Monday, only 10 percent of Britons support Truss’s management.
