# Badenoch warns Burnham not to repeat Truss mistakes

> Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch tells Labour PM Andy Burnham to cut spending ahead of next week's budget, citing the chaos of Liz Truss's 2022 mini-budget.
- Title: Badenoch warns Burnham not to repeat Truss mistakes · POLITICO
- Summary: Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch tells Labour PM Andy Burnham to cut spending ahead of next week's budget, citing the chaos of Liz Truss's 2022 mini-budget…
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- Source: POLITICO — https://politico.eu/article/liz-truss-kemi-badenoch-tell-andy-burnham-budget
- Published: 2026-10-20T12:41:55+00:00
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- Topics: kemi badenoch, andy burnham, liz truss, labour, conservative party, budget, uk economy, spending cuts, politics, world
## Badenoch warns Burnham on budget
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch told Labour PM Andy Burnham on Tuesday not to repeat Liz Truss's economic mistakes in his budget next Wednesday.
## The Truss mini-budget lesson
Badenoch cited Truss's 2022 mini-budget, which gave away one hundred fifty billion pounds in energy bill subsidies without cutting spending, triggering a sharp sell-off in government bonds and pound depreciation.

> if you don't balance your budget, if you give away £150 billion in subsidizing people's energy bills, but you don't cut spending, then the markets will react
## Truss publishing mini-budget book
Liz Truss, Britain's shortest-serving prime minister who spent forty-nine days in Downing Street, announced Tuesday she is publishing a book called Bank Job about what happened during the mini-budget.
## Key takeaway

Kemi Badenoch warned Labour PM Andy Burnham on Tuesday to avoid Liz Truss's economic mistakes by cutting spending in next week's budget.