Responding to Jeremy Hunt's comments that every department, including the NHS, faces cuts, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson Sarah Olney MP said:

"The government has decided that no sacrifice is too great to ask of the British people to clean up their home grown disaster. 

"This Conservative party has trashed the economy, hit millions of people with mortgage hikes and presided over a national humiliation. Now they are promising cuts that will break our public services and deliver further pain for millions of people who are struggling. 
 
"Every day the Conservatives remain in office is another day of chaos. Rather than staggering on, dragging the country through the gutter with them, Truss should call a general election. She should allow the British people to put her government out of its misery.

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