Did Liz Truss really crash the economy?
Whenever Starmer or Rachel are on the ropes, their default "get out of jail card" is to state that Liz Truss crashed the economy. He was Prime Minister for 49 days, from 6 September 2022 to 25 October 2022. That's nearly 4 years ago. I know Labour havent got a clue about the economy but can something which happened 4 years ago really have caused such prolonged damage to the economy? It's clear Rachel's jobs tax and huge inflation busting pay rises for public sector workers and those on minimum wage has been inflationary and caused a bit increase in unemployment. Surely this must be worse than Liz's damage? So let's find the clock back. Crashing the economy implies economic output fell or GDP fell. So let's look at the ONS numbers. Q2/22 GDP = £686,335M (Before Liz was PM) Q3/22 GDP = £687,029M (Part of her premiership) Q4/22 GDP = £688,817M (Part of her premiership) So Q4 is higher than Q3 so surely if she had crashed the economy then the number w...