UK PM Liz Truss Defends "Decisive Action" Of Mini-Budget Amid Turmoil

Liz Truss was keen to keep the focus on the largely welcome action taken to freeze fuel bills for households and businesses.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday defended her government's controversial mini-budget which has triggered widespread economic turmoil and insisted that it was the “decisive action” needed for long-term growth.

In her first round of interviews with local BBC radio stations around the country since the tax-cutting and high government, borrowing measures were tabled by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in the House of Commons last week, the recently elected leader insisted "controversial and difficult decisions" needed to be taken to improve the situation in the UK.

Truss was keen to keep the focus on the largely welcome action taken to freeze fuel bills for households and businesses amid spiralling global energy costs in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

"We had to take decisive action to help people through this winter and next winter,” said Truss.