Liz Truss has attempted to persuade her party to believe in “a new approach” to the economy in a speech to the Tory Party conference.
The speech, which was briefly interrupted by Greenpeace protesters holding a sign saying ‘who voted for this?’, comes amid bitter infighting in the Tory party over tax cuts and changes to benefits. It lasted just over 30 minutes.
“I am determined to take a new approach and break us out of this high-tax, low-growth cycle,” Ms Truss said.
"That is what our plan is about. It's about getting our economy growing and rebuilding Britain through reform."
It comes after former Cabinet minister Grant Shapps warned Ms Truss has little more than a week to save her leadership.
Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, suggested Tory rebels such as Michael Gove, whose criticism was among the reasons the Government performed a humiliating U-turn on scrapping the top rate of tax, had effectively “staged a coup” against Ms Truss.
An ongoing row over the issue of whether to uprate benefits in line with inflation also threatenened to deepen Tory divisions.
