Labour calls for Truss and Kwarteng to renounce redundancy payments

Lisa Nandy says it would be abhorrent' for ex-PM and ex-chancellor to get five-figure sums after disastrous mini-budget

Labour has called for Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng to hand back the redundancy payments they are due for their time in Downing Street, saying it would be abhorrent" if they kept them.

Truss and Kwarteng are due to receive thousands in severance pay after their calamitous mini-budget and growing unpopularity in the Conservative party forced them from office. The former prime minister sacked her chancellor shortly before her own resignation in a last-ditch effort to save her skin.