Tories put Liz Truss at the helm and she has set her course – now they must calm down and get behind her
Cut the spats
LIZ Truss, by her own admission, handled the presentation of the mini-Budget badly.
In her own words, the Prime Minister did not lay the ground for all of her tax cuts, especially the abolition of the 45p top rate for the richest.
It’s also undeniable that not getting a forecast from the OBR, or spelling out how she would reduce public spending, was a significant blunder.
What it does not mean, however, is that her entire plan to kickstart the flatlining economy is wrong, or that she should revert to the high-tax, low-growth policies of recent years.
So the continuing “blue-on-blue” attacks from her own backbench MPs as the Tory conference got under way in Birmingham yesterday were as depressing as they were unhelpful.
Michael Gove, who backed Rishi Sunak for PM, led the way. But plenty of others were gunning for the new PM.
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The only real beneficiary of such attacks is Sir Keir Starmer, who has not had to do anything to justify the healthy poll leads that have fallen in his lap.
And the infighting certainly does not help Sun readers who need the Government to be laser-focused on helping to fix the cost-of-living crisis, not squabbling amongst themselves.
The Tories put Liz Truss at the helm and she has set her course.
Now they need to calm down and get behind her.
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Listen to Mel
SPICE Girl Mel B knows all too well about domestic violence from bitter personal experience, having lived in fear for much of her ten-year second marriage.
As she movingly told politicians at the Tory party conference, she was driven close to suicide by the constant physical and emotional abuse.
Let’s hope her message got through.
A shocking 1.6million women experience domestic abuse every year, and the cost-of-living crisis could trap more women with their abusive partners, according to Women’s Aid, which has teamed up with The Sun for our Speak Out Against Domestic Abuse campaign.
As Mel said yesterday, there is an urgent need for more funding for abuse support services, an end to women having to sit in court near the sick wife-beaters who abused them, and an end to the “old boys club” of judges who base their idea of whether a woman has been abused on her looks or financial status.
Mel declared that she and others are survivors, not victims.
But too many don’t survive.
That’s why we have to see a change.
King’s ransom
ON THE plus side, Charles, you’re King.
On the minus side, your son now owns the Highgrove House home that you love, and he wants £700,000 rent.
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Forget Game of Thrones.
Game of Homes is even more brutal.