Liz Truss was ‘right’ to be radical, but the numbers need to ‘add up’, shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride tells Sky News

Former prime minister Liz Truss was right to be radical, but the numbers need to “add up”, the Conservative shadow chancellor has told Sky News. Sir Mel Stride said the 49-day prime minister was “absolutely right” to recognise that “radicalism” is needed to grow the UK economy, “particularly in a more dangerous world”, but that it needed to be “delivered in the right way”. He was speaking after delivering a major speech in which he sought to put vast distance between the Conservative Party of today, and the consequences of the mini-budget in September 2022 that sent inflation and interest…