Nick Watt skewered Kemi Badenoch

A BBC journalist left Kemi Badenoch floundering by reminding her that she had served in Liz Truss’s short-lived government as it crashed the economy.

Nick Watt, political editor on Newsnight, skewered the Tory leader after she claimed Labour was heading for a financial crisis due to the UK’s soaring debt.

She even claimed the government may have to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund if it runs out of money, as a previous Labour government did in 1976.

Badenoch said: “A lot of the indicators are pointing in that direction. Many well-respected commentators and economists are saying this. It is something I am really worried about.”

But Watt then told her: “The broad reason you’re saying you have to do this is because you say........

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