The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Liz Truss, acknowledged on Wednesday that His economic measures will cause “turmoil”but they said they deserve it because they will be guaranteed Economic growth “Everyone benefits from it.”
“Whenever there is change, there is disturbanceand not everyone is with the change, but it will be for everyone’s benefit,” Truss said in. First speech since becoming prime ministerwhich he delivered at the National Conference of the Conservative Party, which took place in Birmingham.
Truss appeared in front of fellow party members after backing off his tax cut plans for top incomes due to the effect the measure had on the markets.
“It was a distraction from most of our plan, I understood and listened‘, acknowledged the Prime Minister, who explicitly endorsed her Minister of Finance, Quasi Quartingo. “We are in this completely together,” he stressed.
“There will be no more drifts or delays.”
Several MPs and Conservative leaders have openly criticized the prime minister’s economic plan, whose decisions she endorsed on Wednesday.
Truss said that the general crisis the country is going through does not recognize “No more drifts or delays“.” I refuse to push our great country to retreat,” he said, and at another time he asserted that “Ready to make tough decisions”.
“For a very long time, Our economy has not grown as it should “For a long time, the political debate has focused on how to distribute a limited economic pie, when what we need is to make the pie grow so that we all get a bigger share,” Truss recounted. That’s why I’m designed to adopt a new focus s Get us out of the cycle of high taxes and low growth‘, he confirmed.
The Prime Minister said she has three priorities:growth, growth, growth“Low economic growth means lower wages, less opportunity and less money to spend on things that make life better (…) We must ensure that everyone, everywhere can move forward,” he explained.
To that end, it has confirmed that it will continue with the massive tax cut (the largest in 50 years), while at the same time promising to: Debt reduction in proportion to GDP. “This government He will always be financially responsible‘, he promised.
Truss denounces ‘anti-growth coalition’
“I will not allow An anti-growth alliance is stopping us.”Prime Minister warned, Which included in this “alliance” the Labor Party, the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish National Party, trade unions, environmentalists and those who opposed Britain’s exit from the European Unionamong other things.
Truss emphasized that only the Conservative Party had a plan to “move the UK”, referring to the conference slogan (Britain move“Move UK”).
The Prime Minister’s speech was briefly interrupted by a Two Greenpeace activists protest against cracking Who held a banner saying “Who voted for this?” , referring to the fact that Truss was elected to office by her party, not by the ballot box. Activists were evicted from the building while Conservative delegates applauded Truss.
Two Greenpeace activists demonstrate during Prime Minister Liz Truss’s speech in Birmingham. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
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