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17 Oct 2022

Has the government’s economic U-turn cost the Conservative Party their credibility?

After Jeremy Hunt read the last rites to Liz Truss’s economic vision earlier today, there were signs he’d managed to regain some of Britain’s credibility in the eyes of financial markets.

Did that come at the cost of the Conservatives’ remaining credibility in the eyes of voters?

We went to Birmingham Northfield – flipped by the Tories in 2019 by the finest of margins – to find out what people there made of today’s events.