It is thanks to the Conservatives’ incompetence that food prices are rising faster than any other G7 country

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Liz Truss caused the inflation spike in the first place (pixel8000)

The Independent’s recent editorial about the Conservatives, Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt’s attempt to claim credit for lowering inflation was spot on.

It was the Conservatives own economic incompetence under Liz Truss and her own ministers that caused the most recent inflation spike in the first place. It is the Conservatives’ incompetence that is costing the taxpayer £6 million a day in hotel bills for asylum seekers.

It is thanks to the Conservatives’ incompetence that food prices are rising faster here than any other G7 country. It is thanks to the Conservatives’ incompetence that energy giants are at the same time making record levels of profit, while the PM refuses to bring in a proper windfall tax. And it is thanks to the Conservatives’ incompetence that 1,121,483 households have been hit by the Tory mortgage bombshell.