Liz Truss will today warn of even more “disruption” in a make-or-break speech after weeks of Tory chaos.
She makes her first conference address as Prime Minister after ex-minister Grant Shapps warned she had 10 days to turn her premiership around.
Discipline was left in tatters yesterday as Home Secretary Suella Braverman accused rivals of a “coup” for forcing Ms Truss to keep the 45p top tax rate.
Ex-minister Nadine Dorries said she was not calling for an immediate election because "we'd absolutely lose it". Labour ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned there will be a "national uprising" if all Ms Truss's plans go ahead.
And a fresh split emerged this morning as Foreign Secretary James Cleverly suggested Ms Braverman should have kept her fears private.
"My view is anything to do with policy or the relationship with other ministers - always better to feed straight into the boss,” he said.
Mr Cleverly also branded Grant Shapps’ warning “ridiculous” and said Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng was right to blame the Queen’s death - which blocked government comms - for his mini-Budget shambles.
Yet despite Tory after Tory hitting out in a fresh row over whether benefits will rise by inflation, Mr Cleverly bizarrely said the conference has "been brilliant, the atmosphere is fantastic" and the party "really really haven't" been fighting with each other.
Liz Truss has repeatedly refused to rule out more U-turns over her mini-Budget, which announced £45bn of tax cuts funded by borrowing.
Yet in her speech she will insist there can be no more "drift and delay" in the effort to boost economic growth.
She will defend her "new approach" which will "unleash the full potential of our great country".
And she will pledge a “new Britain for a new era”, despite 12 years of Tory rule.
The Prime Minister, who was only elected as Tory leader on September 5, will say: "For too long, our economy has not grown as strongly as it should have done.
"For too long, the political debate has been dominated by how we distribute a limited economic pie. Instead, we need to grow the pie so that everyone gets a bigger slice.
"That is why I am determined to take a new approach and break us out of this high-tax, low-growth cycle. That is what our plan is about: getting our economy growing and rebuilding Britain through reform."
She will add: “The scale of the challenge is immense.
"War in Europe for the first time in a generation. A more uncertain world in the aftermath of Covid. And a global economic crisis.
"That is why in Britain we need to do things differently.
"Whenever there is change, there is disruption . Not everyone will be in favour.
"But everyone will benefit from the result - a growing economy and a better future. That is what we have a clear plan to deliver."
Alongside measures to boost growth, the Prime Minister will insist she will keep an iron grip on the nation's finances, with a leaner state offering value for taxpayers' money.
She will say: "This is a great country. But I know that we can do better and we must do better.
"We have huge talent across the country. We're not making enough of it. To deliver this, we need to get Britain moving. We cannot have any more drift and delay at this vital time."
It comes as Ms Truss considers raising benefits only by earnings of around 5% instead of inflation of up to 10% in April.
The Resolution Foundation said the real-terms cut would leave a single adult £391 worse off, a single parent of one £607 worse off, and a working family with two children £1,061 worse off next year.
A dizzying line-up of Tories demanded a welfare rise with inflation - ranging from right-wingers Esther McVey and Lord Frost, to centre-right Damian Green, Mel Stride and Michael Gove.
“The Government shouldn't take on battles it can't win,” said Lord Frost.
Serving Cabinet ministers Penny Mordaunt and Robert Buckland urged a rise with inflation - and more raised fears in private, a No10 insider said.
The insider added: “The policy is… dynamic”.
But Home Secretary Ms Braverman bizarrely moaned people who work “should be working”.
She told a fringe event she “wanted to cut welfare spending,” adding: “We have far too many people in this country who are fit to work, who are able to work, and should be working.
“And they choose to top up their salaries with tax credits.”
More than 40% of people on Universal Credit already have a job, but are eligible for the benefit because they are very poorly paid.
Ms Braverman added: “The benefit street culture I think is a feature of modern Britain.
“I think that culture does exist - in my constituency in Fareham, I’ve got people here, local councillors and they will confirm that even in Fareham in sunny leafy Fareham, there are pockets of communities where families have known nothing else but welfare.”
