Truss’s trickle-down economics lie explained – twice
It seems the satirists are falling over themselves to explain why Liz Truss’s favourite economic idea – the ‘trickle-down’ effect – is absolute bilge.
Here are Adam, Alex and Josh from The Last Leg:
And here’s a harsher version of the same explanation from Russell Kane:
The Labour Party has now opened up a 17-point lead over Truss’s Conservatives.
No wonder ‘no confidence’ letters are already flooding into 1922 Committee chairman Graham Brady’s office.
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