A Newcastle MP accused Liz Truss of having “no plan” to deal with the economic crisis gripping the UK, after the Prime Minister’s Tory conference speech.
The PM promised to “get Britain moving” as she addressed Conservative members in Birmingham on Wednesday, following a chaotic few days that have seen a U-turn on plans to scrap the 45p top rate of income tax and dissent from within her own cabinet over a refusal to increase benefits in line with inflation. She told the audience that she was ready to make “difficult but necessary” choices and attacked a so-called “anti-growth coalition” including opposition parties, unions, and “Brexit deniers”.
But with no new policy announcements from Ms Truss on Wednesday, Newcastle North MP Catherine McKinnell accused the government of failing to tackle the big problems facing the nation. The Labour MP said: “Despite the country facing cost of living, energy and climate crises, with public services overstretched following successive Conservative governments, no plan or agenda was set out by our new Prime Minister. This is not a game, this is people’s livelihoods and futures.
