Prime minister Liz Truss has told the Tory party faithful that she will lead Britain through “stormy days” during the economic “tempest” caused by the Covid-19 crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Truss, who has been in power for just a month, sought to rally Conservative MPs behind her faltering leadership at a party conference that has descended into acrimony, cabinet infighting and confusion.
In her keynote speech on the final day of the conference, she said she had three priorities for Britain: “Growth, growth and growth.”
Truss argued that the Conservative party faced an “anti-growth coalition” of think-tanks and opposition parties that did not understand “aspiration”.