Fact-checking Liz Truss at PMQs

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Fact-checking Liz Truss at PMQs
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Looking at claims about energy bills, NHS backlogs and interest rates.

Liz Truss apologised and admitted to having "made mistakes" as she faced MPs at Prime Minister's Questions. It follows the weeks of turmoil on the markets after her government's mini-budget and the subsequent U-turns over most of its key measures.

Ms Truss has used this figure repeatedly since announcing the Energy Price Guarantee, but the duration of this support scheme has now been scaled back meaning the figure is no longer certain., there was a cap on the price of a unit of energy until 2024. The cap will now only cover prices up to April 2023 and, at the moment, we do not know how much people will be paying per unit of energy after that.

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