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Liz Truss gives a speech on the economy at the Institute for government in London, September 18, 2023
TORY fanatics demanded yet more extreme policies today, with failed ex-PM Liz Truss leading the right-wing charge.
Wrecking PM Rishi Sunak’s hopes of a united party conference, the right mobilised at a packed fringe rally for cuts in taxes and public spending.
Ms Truss demanded a reduction in business taxes to 19 per cent, adding: “If we can get it lower, the better.”
The social base of the old Tory Party has disappeared as surely as that of Labour, argues ANDREW MURRAY – today’s right are the debased offspring of a capitalism that speculates without investing and profits without producing
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
