Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:58 pm on 15 July 2025.
Lord Livermore
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury
2:58,
15 July 2025
I completely agree with my noble friend on that point. Every time we hear from the party opposite, it opposes every single measure we have taken to stabilise the public finances, yet at no point has it opposed the spending that that has gone to fund. That is exactly the mistake Liz Truss made in her mini-Budget, which saw mortgage payments rocket for working people. They are still paying the price of those higher mortgages, and that is something we absolutely will not do.