The new Prime Minister’s honeymoon starts and ends today. Once Liz Truss formally enters Downing Street tomorrow she will be under pressure to tackle the enormous economic crises facing the country, with very little time to announce her policy plans. Truss herself has pledged to reveal her plan for rising energy bills within the first week of her premiership, and her plans to slash tax within the first month. While at the forefront of political discussion, these are but a few of the emergencies that the government must grapple with in the weeks and months ahead. Below are ten graphs that the Truss administration can’t ignore if she and her government are to get the country back on track.
The most immediate pressure on Truss is to announce her plans for dealing with skyrocketing energy bills, now that Ofgem has announced that the next price cap lifts to £3,549 per year, a rise of 80 per cent.
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