Liz Truss and the so-called ‘mini-Budget’ are still weighing down the Tories as they seek to turn around their fortunes for a general election, says a leading pollster.Sir John Curtice, Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University, said opposition parties only had to say the words “Liz Truss” for voters to start questioning whether to trust the Tories with the economy.
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00:00 The fundamental problem they face is that once we start talking about the economy,
00:05 pretty much all the opposition have to do in order to start to sow doubts in voters' minds
00:11 about whether or not they should be trusting the Conservatives on the economy is to say the words,
00:16 Liz, trust. In other words, I was about to. Yeah, voters still remember the so-called fiscal event
00:24 that did severe damage to the Conservatives' reputation for managing the economy. And of
00:29 course, one of the apparent consequences of that, which is the rise in interest rates,
00:34 some of that is still working through as more and more people are having to renegotiate their
00:39 mortgages and discovering they're having to pay an awful lot more. So even if they're going to pay
00:43 less in the way of taxation and the government has something been arguing about at least those
00:48 people on average incomes having the lowest rate of taxation for a very long time.
00:52 There's an argument there. But the trouble is their outgoings in terms of housing
00:58 are going up for many of them.
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