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.