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Nearly three years on from Liz Trusser's disastrous mini-budget, her party are determined to tell us it will never happen again.

Back then, the stakes were recognised and stability restored within weeks with a full backing

of my party.

But the damage to our reliability is not so easily undone. That will take time. And it also requires contrition. So let me be clear.

Never again will the Conservative Party undermine fiscal credibility by making promises that we cannot afford.

If you don't recognise that voice, it's Mel Stride.

He's the Conservative Shadow Chancellor, and he's out there making one thing very clear.

They deeply regret what Liz Truss did to the country, and moreover, to their party,

and they want to make sure it can never, ever happen again. And true to form, Liz Truss has

fired back at Melstride saying he is a creature of the establishment that he had been captured

by them. How do the Conservative Party move on when Liz Truss is still utterly convinced that she was right. Welcome to the

newsagents. The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. And Mel Stride was making

a speech in central London today, which has really taken the party,

as it is now, way beyond where they have previously been even further than Kemmy Badenock,

in terms of accepting the damage that Liz Trust did in 2022. Forty five billion pounds of

unfunded tax cuts and spending pledges you'll remember,

that really unraveled very badly. And he's gone out today to really try and, I guess, beyond the

front foot and say that they're never as a party going to risk the economy with unfunded tax cuts

like those

in list trusses mini budget. And I guess the reason that they feel they have to say this

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