Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
'If the higher mortgage rates were as a result of Liz Truss why is it that living standards have fallen further in Germany or Austria or Sweden'The chancellor’s comments appeared to fly in the face of what happened in the immediate aftermath of the mini-budget in September 2022, when the financial system went into meltdown and interest rates went up.
An irritated Hunt replied: “Well Charlie I really would challenge you, and I know the BBC is fiercely impartial, on making statement like you’ve just said because if the higher mortgage rates were as a result of Liz Truss, why is it that living standards have fallen further in Germany or Austria or Sweden?
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