Nigel Farage has accused former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng of “throwing Liz Truss under a bus” after shocking new claims about her premiership.
It comes after respected political biographer Anthony Seldon claimed the former prime minister considered cutting cancer treatments to fund tax cuts.
Speaking on GB News, Kwarteng insisted this was never the case - but Nigel continued to probe Truss’s ex-political partner.
“Earlier on today you told The Independent, ‘I was never involved in any conversations about restricting healthcare, but that doesn’t mean the prime minister and her team didn’t discuss this’”, he said.
“You’re chucking her under the bus, aren’t you?”
Kwarteng rushed to shut down the claim, insisting this was not the case.
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“I was very careful in my wording. I didn’t have any of those conversations”, he said.
“But if those conversations took place in other parts of Government, I was not privy to them.”
Speaking on the original claim that Truss considered attempting to boost funds into the public black hole by restricting NHS treatments, the Chancellor insisted this was never on the cards.
He told Nigel: “We did look at savings, but we did not look at treatment of cancer.
“We looked at general capital projects, transport projects, I think the prime minister was very keen on general Government.
“This happened with Boris Johnson, we looked at Civil Service numbers. But I can categorically say we never talked about cutting cancer treatment.
“It would have been politically absurd.”
The claim was made by Britain’s leading political biographer, who also stated Truss’s allies feared her team could be targeted with a “cocaine” smear by unnamed figures at Tory HQ who wanted to stop her from becoming prime minister.
The book, Truss at 10: How Not to Be a Prime Minister, is deeply critical of Truss, who was forced to resign in 2022 after introducing a series of unfunded tax cuts which prompted an economic crisis.
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