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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 7 October 2022 - No plan to review BoE’s mandate
Description: Opposition leaders plan to keep up the pressure on new Prime Minister Liz Truss by forcing her to publicly confirm whether she is about to honour a pledge made by her predecessor Boris Johnson, to increase benefit payments in line with inflation or if she intends to save five billion pounds by going for the cheaper alternative of raising them in line with average wages.
There seems to be little alternative for Truss other than to come clean on what she is thinking as until the decision is made public, she will be hounded from all sides. Backbench Conservative Members...