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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Truss plans are ‘bitter-tasting medicine’ that will do UK good, says Cleverly

James Cleverly, the foreign secretary
James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, said the Toy conference in Birmingham had been ‘fantastic’, despite bitter infighting among MPs. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA

Liz Truss’s economic plans are like “bitter-tasting medicine” that people may not necessarily like but will be good for them in the end, James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, has said.

Before a party conference speech from the prime minister that pitches “disruption” as the price of success, Cleverly suggested that the UK was sick and needed an economic cure.

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