Minister faces questions of post-Budget market jitters - 'we've all got PTSD from Liz Truss'
Football November 01, 2024 10:39 PM

A top Labour minister has said Britain has "PTSD from " as he faced questions on market jitters in response to the .

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones attempted to urge calm, saying "markets always respond to budgets in the normal way".

"There's a lot of new information about the economy and the nation's finances presented to Parliament, and it's normal for markets to respond," he told Sky News.

It comes after the Chancellor hiked taxes by over £40billion and loosened borrowing rules in an attempt to fix crumbling public services. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has welcomed the Budget.

But the scale of extra borrowing - around £32 billion a year on average - saw yields on government bonds increase as the market responded to the Chancellor's plans.

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He rejected any assumption market reaction is anything like the turmoil inflicted on the

Mr Jones later added: "I think we've all got PTSD from Liz Truss and just let's compare the two different scenarios, because they're very, very different. So, under Liz Truss, as we saw, they sacked the permanent secretary, they ignored the independent Office for Budget Responsibility.

"They announced £45 billion of unfunded tax cuts and said they were only just getting started. And then the market went mad and we all know what happened. Completely different in contrast to now."

Asked on LBC if he the markets would take fright after Labour's Budget, similar to what happened after Ms Truss's mini-budget, he added: "No, I don't, because we have got strong and robust fiscal rules in place.

"One of the reasons it is very different from the Liz Truss period is we have got the stability rule which means that day-to-day spending of public services will be paid for by tax receipts, not borrowing money each and every month as the last government did."

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