[RichardCoulter]

Just watched this mornings Truss interview.

She comes across as someone trying to sound confident, wise and knowledgeable, yet the silence whilst she processes the questions and the parrot fashion reference to the energy cap in response to each and every question shows that she is our of her depth and winging it.

From what she said about the Government help for energy costs (she said it should decrease inflation by 5%), I think that she will not raise benefits & pensions by inflation.

When specifically asked if pensions would go up by inflation in April as promised, she didn't say yes, she said "I am committed to the triple lock". I predict that pensions will go up by about 5% less than inflation.

They are now talking about benefit cuts as opposed to freezing them again. I'm not sure if the cut will be in real terms by freezing disability benefits etc or in actual terms by cutting them even more than what Cameron/Osborne did.