'I don’t think it is conservative to think you can cut taxes just by borrowing more money on top of huge amounts you’ve borrowed already'
Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng during a visit to a construction site for a medical innovation campus in Birmingham, on day three of the Conservative Party annual conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham. Picture date: Tuesday October 4, 2022.He told The Yorkshire Post: “I’m an old-fashioned Conservative.
“Our policy is to assume we get a growth rate through the consequences of ideologically-driven juvenilia about what constitutes economic growth. This is a pretty undesirable position to be in and you can see from the opinion polls what people faced with leaps in their mortgages and worrying about public spending cuts think about it.Former Tory minister and Hong Kong governor Lord Patten pictured in 2019.
Lord Patten added: “There’s a very important constitutional point here I think. I’m not against the party in the country choosing a leader of the party, I am against the Conservative party choosing the“The Prime Minister has to have the confidence of the Parliamentary party and in the first round of voting“It is not surprising she is going to be getting a lot of criticism from MPs who didn’t think she was up to the job before.
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