Liz Truss reveals she has spoken to the former prime minister since taking office
Liz Truss will admit her economic plans, which she says will boost UK growth, will cause “disruption”.
In her first Conservative Party conference speech as party leader on Wednesday, the Prime Minister will insist there can be no more “diversion and delay” in her bid to “get us out of this cycle of high taxes and low growth”. “.
He will defend his “new approach” saying it will “grow the pie so everyone gets a bigger slice” and “unleash the full potential of our great country”.
It will be seen as his attempt to boost Tory morale, after Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng was forced to make a U-turn to scrap the 45p tax rate for top earners, a key policy in the his mini-budget that scared the markets.
The collapse of the tax plans has caused a split within the party and further infighting could erupt over whether to increase benefits in line with inflation.
Mrs Truss’s speech will follow former minister Nadine Dorries’ warning that the Tories could “absolutely lose” a snap general election after a new poll showed Labor has a 38-point lead in “red wall” constituencies “.
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Braverman’s immigration and policing proposals, in short
The Minister of the Interior, Suella Braverman, has made a series of proposals in her intervention at the conservative conference, on the main stage and at the marginal meetings, this Tuesday.
- Migrants crossing the Channel will face a blanket ban on seeking asylum in the UK
- ‘Illegal’ asylum seekers to be deported or ‘relocated to Rwanda’ while their claim is being considered
- It has the “aspiration” to reduce the number of migrants and international students below 100,000
- There has been a 450% increase in claims of modern slavery since 2014
- Modern slavery laws to protect vulnerable people are being ‘abused’ by many illegal migrants
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“Compassionate” Kwarteng dismisses profit talk
Kwasi Kwarteng has insisted he follows a “compassionate conservatism” but declined to comment on whether the government will increase benefits in line with inflation.
The chancellor also told a Conservative Party conference fringe event that things were going “very well” since he took office, suggesting his party could win the next general election despite Labour’s massive lead in the polls.
This flies in the face of warnings from former ministers, including Grant Shapps and Nadine Dorries, who have warned the Tories would be in trouble if there was a snap general election.
Amid fierce infighting at the annual meeting, cabinet ministers publicly urged Prime Minister Liz Truss to increase benefits in line with inflation rather than the lowest wage measure.
Kwarteng said: “Compassionate conservatism struck me as a good phrase and it’s something I always think about in terms of politics and I think we have a duty to look after very vulnerable people.”
But asked if he would support raising benefits in line with inflation, he replied: “I’m not going to get involved in a debate about what we’re going to do with benefits.”
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Conservative conference on the front pages of Wednesday’s newspapers
The Sun and Daily Mail were the only two national newspapers not to include news about the Conservative Party conference on their front pages.
Independent: Prime Minister struggles to hold party line as divisions intensify
Financial Times: Truss pushes to rally MPs after Tories renew infighting over benefits threat
Daily Telegraph: Disruption is the price of success, PM insists
Guardian: Tory turmoil amid ‘coup’ claims to oust Truss
Weather: Prepare for more change, says Truss the disruptor
Morning Star: Conservatives in chaos over threat to cut benefits
Mirror: NOW Tories blame Queen’s death for budget fiasco
Daily Star: Kwasi: It’s all the queen’s fault!
Daily Express: PM: My changes will disrupt… but build a better future
Single: Married to BBC star’s secret love child with a stripper
Daily Mail: Officer: Police to attend EVERY robbery
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ICYMI: Labor support for ‘red wall’ seats rises to 61%
Support for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labor party has soared to 61% in northern England and Midlands constituencies, while Liz Truss’s Conservatives have sunk to 23%.
You can read the full details here by Adam Forrest
Labor support for ‘red wall’ seats rises to 61%
Remarkable 23-point swing in Keir Starmer’s Heartlands party from mini-budget mess
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Donald Trump: “Liz Truss will do very well as Prime Minister”
Liz Truss has received a glowing endorsement from Donald Trump.
The former Republican US president praised the newly appointed Conservative leader for her tax cut agenda.
Trump said he thinks she will do “very well” as prime minister.
Donald Trump praised Liz Truss for her plans to cut taxes
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In an interview with GB News, he said: “I cut taxes very substantially and we did a lot more business and she has done that.
“And I know it’s taken some hits, which I’m actually surprised about, but maybe at the end of the day you’re going to have a bigger income, it’s going to be really interesting.
“What he did is very opposite of what some people thought. But that doesn’t mean they were right. I have a feeling he might be right.”
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Braverman criticized for saying he wants the UK to leave the ECHR
A government source has criticized Home Secretary Suella Braverman for saying she wanted the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, against government policy.
When Ms Braverman stood up to Prime Minister Liz Truss for the Tory leadership, she campaigned for the move.
He returned to the subject today at a fringe event organized by the Spectator magazine at the Tory conference in Birmingham.
Suella Braverman gives a thumbs up after her speech on immigration
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Ms Braverman said: “I was quite forceful on this issue in my leadership campaign.
“My personal position is that, ultimately, we should abandon the European Convention on Human Rights.
“This is not government policy, I should say, government policy is to do everything we can within the convention, within the limits of the convention.
“But if that doesn’t work, we’ll have to consider all options.”
But a senior government official told the PA news agency: “As Suella acknowledged, his personal views are contrary to government policy and if he wants to make those views known within the government he should do so in an environment more appropriate.”
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Dorries: “Remove Boris and his policy recipe for disaster”
Removing Boris Johnson and his policies “is a recipe for disaster”, said former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries.
Speaking to LBC Radio’s Iain Dale, he said: “I think what Liz (Truss) needs to do is stop right now and take stock of where she is, to learn from the mistakes of the last few weeks, to look at the manifest that the people chose us”.
He added: “Because for me to remove Boris and remove the policies is a recipe for disaster.”
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Dorries flip-flopping: Tories would ‘absolutely lose’ the election
Nadine Dorries doesn’t seem to be wondering whether the Conservative government should call an early general election.
The former culture secretary has said, at least twice, that Prime Minister Liz Truss should trigger an election before 2024.
But now he says he is not calling a general election as polls show Labor would win by a landslide.
Ms Dorries, loyal to Truss’s predecessor Boris Johnson, told LBC Radio’s Iain Dale: “There are a number of issues, but I just want to make it clear that I’m not calling a general election, because the polls at the moment. , we would absolutely miss it.”
She added: “I support Liz but what I want Liz to do is: I’d like everyone to calm down a bit and not just throw the baby out with the bathwater, which is what is happening now and think a little more carefully about what people voted for in 2019.
“How they voted on our manifesto, on the deal we have with the British public and the promises we made to them, and think a little more before we get too impatient with policies that people won’t do. vote and you won’t like it in the future.”
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‘Extortion’ as security guard ‘stops reporter from asking questions’
A reporter who attended the Tory conference said there was an “altercation” when the BBC’s Nick Robinson tried to ask Home Secretary Suella Braverman a question.
Adam Bienkov, the political editor of the Byline Times, said: “Just now an altercation at the Tory conference between the BBC’s Nick Robinson and a security guard who was trying very hard to physically stop him from asking a question politely to the Minister of the Interior Suella Braverman.”.
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Badenoch criticizes Braverman’s “inflammatory” attack on the rebels
In another cabinet row, Kemi Badenoch has slammed Suella Braverman for her “inflammatory” suggestion that rebel Tory MPs, including Michael Gove, had staged a “coup” over the top rate of income tax.
He told a ConservativeHome event: “I don’t think we should be talking about coups. I think that kind of language is too inflammatory. People should be able to change their minds without the world ending.”
But Ms. Badenoch said she has been calling Mr. Gove over his rebellion against the scrapping of the 45p top tax rate, which helped force the U-turn. “I’ve been shouting at him a lot since Sunday morning.”
Adam Forrest October 4, 2022 8:30 pm