Spice Girl Mel C has told Times Radio that Prime Minister Liz Truss represents Girl Power "in essence" but that the current economic situation in the UK is a "flipping disgrace".

Speaking on Times Radio at the Cheltenham Literature Festival she told Cathy Newman:

I kind of avoid political issues but I didn't have my photograph taken with Liz at a certain event I was at recently. And I'll leave it at that.

CN: But is she Girl Power, as a female Prime Minister?

MC: You know, in essence. But I don't want that to sound like that is my beliefs. It's a very difficult time, as we all know, in the UK right now and I come from an area of the UK where lots of people struggle financially.

I try not to be political but in all honesty it's... I can't swear. It's a flipping disgrace. Isn't it, though?

CN: What in particular is a disgrace?

MC: Well, you know, you're talking about the bankers getting their bonuses. I'm in a very privileged position, you know, I can't get up on my high horse and start saying things, but I think any person with any morals can see what's going on isn't right. But I think we all feel just so worn out by it all and it concerns me what's going to happen. People are desperate, what is going to happen?

She also spoke of her relief that social media was not around when the Spice Girls first hit stardom:

I'm really grateful it wasn't around in the 90s. I think I would have found it very difficult to cope with that along with everything else. But the one benefit from social media is you have an immediate voice. You know, the thing that was often frustrating for me and for all of us when we were written about if something was untrue, or something was unkind, the only opportunity you had to talk back was in an interview. And then it would have to be a live television or radio interview because things are often edited in certain ways.


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