Liz Truss refuses to commit to raising benefits in line with inflation – UK politics live

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Prime minister says she is committed to ‘supporting most vulnerable’ but stresses need to be ‘fiscally responsible’

Yet another Tory MP, Caroline Noakes, has popped up to put their weight behind a line in the sand which Conservative backbenchers have been drawing in the sand over the question of raising benefits in line with inflation.

‘How is the government going to re-establish its financial credibility?,’ Truss was asked on the Today progamme.

Every single household benefits from our energy price guarantee and of course we had to act very quickly as a government to deal with that and of course it has meant extra borrowing and I acknowledge that we should have done more to lay the ground work.

There is always balance to be struck and we do need ot get things done but we are also a listening government. We reflect on where things could have been done better.

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