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Liv Clarke

Angela Rayner mocks Liz Truss for ‘crashing the pork market’ in Labour conference speech

Angela Rayner closed the Labour party with a speech which mocked Liz Truss for “crashing the pork market”. The speech came after the pound plummeted following the government’s mini-budget revealed last week.

The deputy Labour leader made fun of a speech the now prime minister made as environment secretary in 2014, when she spoke about cheese and pork markets. Liz Truss had said: “We import two thirds of our cheese. That. Is. A. Disgrace.”

Bringing the Labour Party conference in Liverpool to a close, Ms Rayner said of the conservatives: “Tough on crime? They brought crime to Number 10.

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