Prime minister says she is committed to ‘supporting most vulnerable’ but stresses need to be ‘fiscally responsible’
Cabinet minister Penny Mordaunt has told Times Radio that benefits should rise with inflation:
Mordaunt, one of Truss’s vanquished rivals during the Tory leadership race, said:
I’ve always supported – whether it’s pensions, whether it’s our welfare system – keeping pace with inflation. It makes sense to do so. That’s what I voted for before.
We want to make sure that people are looked after and that people can pay their bills. We are not about trying to help people with one hand and take away with another.
