After a chaotic month in power, the conservative leader took advantage, Wednesday, from the congress of her party to defend the priorities of her mandate before sometimes hostile elected officials. Le Monde with AFP
Weakened after only one month in power, the British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, tried to regain control on Wednesday October 5, on the last day of a conservative party in Birmingham hitherto chaotic, undermined by the Internal dissensions on the policy to be carried out to get the United Kingdom out of the crisis. “In these difficult times, we must act. I am determined to advance the United Kingdom to get us out of the storm,” launched the government’s chief, in a speech without announcement of a little more than half hour before elected officials and activists of his party.
With the desire to renew a conservative power at the head of the country for twelve years, the Prime Minister said she wanted to “end the low growth cycle” and repeated her goal of “growing the British economy”. “The status quo is not an option,” she insisted. Trying to silence those who, even in his ranks, accuse him of being already out of play – barely a month after his coming to power -, she again insisted on her priorities: lower taxes, improve the service health and the fight against illegal immigration.
interruption by Greenpeace
Two Greenpeace activists have briefly interrupted his speaking, brandishing a banner asking: “Who voted for this?” On Twitter, the environmental defense NGO explained to “denounce the” shredding “of the Party promises [Conservative] in 2019 “:” The Prime Minister turns on hydraulic fracturing, strong climate action and leading environmental protections. Who voted for this? “
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Faced with the energy crisis, M truss has promised to accelerate the exploitation of oil and gas in the North Sea. His government has already lifted the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, a polluting technique for extraction of shale hydrocarbons.
The Prime Minister also once again defended her “responsible” budgetary approach, while her “minibudget”, presented on September 23 to deal with the cost of living crisis, aroused a crowd of criticism for his tax cuts funded by debt and drops the pound sterling. Under pressure from its own majority, the government renounced on Monday to suppress the highest tax bracket, a measure that crystallized the opposition because they benefit from the richest taxpayers.
dissensions in Conservatives
This flip-flop, carried by the Minister of Finance, Kwasi Kwarteng, weakened the Prime Minister, who assured that “there was] no shame for a leader to listen”. His speech before the Congress will be enough to reaffirm his authority, when the Minister of the Interior, Suella Braverman, accused on Tuesday, the conservatives having openly criticized M me truss of having launched A putsch against her?
The stake is great, when the former Minister of Transport Grant Shapps, who had supported the former Minister of Finance Rishi Sunak against M Me truss in the race for Downing Street , Tuesday spoke of the danger of a vote of distrust of conservative parliamentarians. “I do not think that the members of the Parliament, conservatives, if they see the polls continue like that, will remain without doing anything,” he warned.
M Me truss took advantage of this speech to once again ensure Ukraine his “solidarity” against Russia. “The illegal annexation of the Ukrainian territory by [Vladimir] Putin is only the last act of his campaign aimed at overthrowing democracy and violating international law, has storming the Prime Minister. We must not give in to those who want An agreement that sacrifices the Ukrainian land. They propose to pay in Ukrainian lives the illusion of peace. We will remain alongside our Ukrainian friends as long as it takes. “