Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has been mocked by the BBC as it struggles to explain the Prime Minister's price plan

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The floundering Foreign Secretary James Cleverly was left red-faced in a deadly BBC interview when he was put in the hot seat over of the inflation crisis.

Challenged six times to say how Rishi Sunak planned to reduce price increases, Mr Cleverly stumbled in his answers - and was at one point greeted by laughter by BBC Radio 4 interviewer Amol Rajan.

Finally, Mr. Rajan ended the interview abruptly, silencing Mr. Shrewdly and saying, "We're going to weather ."

Their painful exchange in full

Amol Rajan: 'What is the Prime Minister's plan to halve inflation?'

James Cleverly: 'Making sure the economy is a more productive economy, through, uh, training, through uh, uh, uh, you know, apprenticeships...'< p>AR: “It will not bring inflation down. What does the Prime Minister plan to do about it?'

JC: 'You have to manage things in the short, medium and long term.'

AR: "Yeah, so what's the Prime Minister's plan?

JC: Like I, uh, say, uh, the, uh, point is, with things like, uh, reducing the implications of, uh, you know, fuel and food.'

AR: 'Sorry...what's the prime minister's short-term plan?'

JC: 'Hey well, one of the things that we, uh, one of the main short-term vehicles, uh, fighting inflation is interest rates…'

AR: 'The Prime Minister doesn't control this, so what is his plan, what is he going to do?"

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JC: "Not all the levers of control are in the hands of the government…"

AR heard laughter in the background

JC: "...the choice has been made to have an independent Bank of England."< /p>

AR (sarcastic): "I really appreciate the economics lesson on the decision to make the Bank of England independent in the 1990s... What is the Prime Minister doing to bring inflation down ?

JC: One of the reasons we've been thoughtful and cautious about the public sector...