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Truss promises to make ‘hard choices’ in search for economic growth

Liz Truss said she would make the “difficult but necessary” choices to get economic growth, but was heckled by environmental campaigners during her first conference speech as Tory leader. The Prime Minister promised to steer the country through the ...

05 Oct 2022 at 16:14

Truss heckled as she delivers first conference speech as Tory leader

Liz Truss’s first conference speech as Tory leader was interrupted by heckling as she battled to unite her party. She promised to steer the country through the “tempest” and “get Britain moving”. Protesters holding a flag which read “who voted for ...

05 Oct 2022 at 13:36

Grant Shapps joins Tory revolt over Liz Truss scrapping top rate of income tax

Tory former cabinet minister Grant Shapps has joined a growing revolt against Liz Truss’s tax plans, branding her decision to scrap the 45p top rate as “politically tin-eared”. Mr Shapps, who was transport secretary under Boris Johnson, accused ...

03 Oct 2022 at 00:17

Kwasi Kwarteng: We must ‘stay the course’ with tax-cutting plan

Kwasi Kwarteng will seek to calm the markets, defend his plan to boost UK economic growth and secure his position as Chancellor in a crunch Conservative Party conference speech. The Chancellor’s mini-budget triggered turmoil in the City, was ...

02 Oct 2022 at 23:30

Kwarteng to make crunch conference speech as revolt grows over tax cuts for rich

Kwasi Kwarteng will insist the Conservative Party must “stay the course” and back his plan for tax cuts in the face of a mounting Tory revolt. The Chancellor’s mini-budget triggered turmoil in the City, was criticised by the International ...

03 Oct 2022 at 01:01

Michael Gove could vote against Liz Truss’s ‘profoundly concerning’ tax plans

Michael Gove could vote against Truss’s ‘profoundly concerning’ tax plans

Tory former Cabinet minister Michael Gove said Liz Truss’s plans to pay for vast tax cuts with increased borrowing were “not Conservative” as he threatened to vote against the mini-budget. The veteran of government, who is influential in ...

02 Oct 2022 at 18:52

Benefit cuts don’t make sense if you want growth, says Iain Duncan Smith

Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said “it doesn’t make sense” not to uprate benefits in line with inflation, as he waded in on the latest Tory row. The Conservative former leader and work and pensions secretary argued that Universal Credit and ...

04 Oct 2022 at 14:52

Putin ‘highly unlikely’ to use nuclear weapons but is not rational, says Wallace

Vladimir Putin is “highly unlikely” to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict but he is not acting in a “rational” way, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said. The Russian president has threatened to use “all the means at our ...

02 Oct 2022 at 21:08

Tory minister hits out at ‘backbiting’ colleagues

Tory minister Dehenna Davison says she had been surprised by the amount of “backbiting” among her fellow Conservative MPs. The levelling-up minister told a conference fringe event she had expected “more camaraderie” among her ...

02 Oct 2022 at 20:19

Government still aims to reform Human Rights Act – Justice Secretary

The Government remains committed to reforming the Human Rights Act, the Justice Secretary has said. Liz Truss’s Government scrapped plans to introduce the Bill of Rights proposed by former justice secretary Dominic Raab when ...

02 Oct 2022 at 17:23

Justice Secretary ‘hopeful’ of end to barrister strike

The Government needs to ensure that routine strikes by barristers do not slow down victims’ access to justice, the Justice Secretary has said. Brandon Lewis said he was “hopeful” that the long-running strike by criminal ...

02 Oct 2022 at 17:14

Cutting benefits to fund reduced tax ‘not right thing to do’ says Scottish Tory

A Scottish Conservative MP has said a possible plan to cut benefits to fund tax reductions for the richest is “not a good idea” but that he would not be drawn into “hypotheticals”. Andrew Bowie, speaking to BBC Radio ...

02 Oct 2022 at 15:33

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