Truss criticizes Sunak's fiscal policy and rejects comparisons with Margaret Thatcher

MADRID, 21 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The British Foreign Minister, Liz Truss, has criticized this Thursday the fiscal policy of former Treasury Minister Rishi Sunak when he was in charge of the Treasury and has rejected comparisons with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher now that she is a candidate to succeed Boris Johnson as goverment's head.

This is how the six weeks of campaigning start in the face of the vote that will take place at the end of summer and in which the militants of the Conservative Party will elect their new leader and, therefore, the new British 'premier'.

Truss has stressed that, if elected, she will manage to "reduce taxes and control inflation" despite the increase in prices registered especially as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In this sense, he has attacked what he considers an "economic orthodoxy" exercised by UK governments for the last 20 years, and which has "failed" to reap economic growth, according to information from the newspaper 'The Guardian '.

For this reason, he has blamed this on the ideas backed by the British Treasury and the newspaper 'Financial Times', whose chief economics editor has said on his Twitter account that he feels "surprised" to learn that "he has been governing the country".

"My taxes will make inflation go down," insisted Truss, who has justified these measures and has stressed that the current policies are a "fraud." "We're heading into a recession, so we have to do something different to get growth, to put money in people's pockets," she said.

However, she has expressed that she is willing to increase spending on health, as promised by Johnson, whose work she has defended. "I think she has done a fantastic job with the 2019 elections, she gave us an overwhelming majority. She complied with Brexit and the vaccines," she said.

On comparisons with Thatcher, she has argued that she is "her own person" independent of the former prime minister and has ruled out sending troops to Ukraine. "We will do whatever is necessary for Ukraine. We have led an international coalition to send aid and we have imposed sanctions. But we are not going to support a direct involvement of British forces," she clarified.