a greenpeace banner. elsewhere. ukraine says it has recaptured new territory in the south as russian forces retreat. police in england and wales have pledged to send an officer to attend all home burglaries. rail services across the uk will be severely disrupted again with around 9000 train drivers in the aslef union on strike. billionaire elon musk has apparently changed his mind about buying twitter, again. he s told the social media firm he wants to proceed with his takeover of the platform, at the price he offered months ago before trying to quit the deal. good afternoon and welcome. liz truss has used herfirst good afternoon and welcome. liz truss has used her first speech as prime minister to defend her plans on economic growth, saying, i get it, regarding the 45p income tax. she told delegates that her tax cuts would help britain break out of what she called a high tech slow growth cycle. signalling people said whenever there is trick change, there is disruption an
Regulation. now we must break down the barriers to growth built up in our system over decades. burdens on businesses are too high, infrastructure projects get delayed for years and years, and years. as a result, we ve seen economic growth choked. house is not being built where they are needed or wanted and we have become a verse as a nation to doing things differently. i love business, i love enterprise. i love people who take responsibility, start their own businesses and invest. well, a snippet of the speech from liz truss they re coming in at just speech from liz truss they re coming in atjust under 35 minutes, the shortest in person conference speech by a tory prime minister this century. let s talk more about it with our chief political correspondent nick eardley.
Coalescing behind her. there are divisions in any party. i - coalescing behind her. there are divisions in any party. i happen l coalescing behind her. there are| divisions in any party. i happen to be the divisions in any party. i happen to be the leader of peterborough city council be the leader of peterborough city council as be the leader of peterborough city council as well and having gone through council as well and having gone through many cabinet reshuffle is on changes, through many cabinet reshuffle is on changes, my words of advice to the prime changes, my words of advice to the prime minister would be to be more inclusive prime minister would be to be more inclusive to prime minister would be to be more inclusive to those that are in opposition so it is the old adage, keep opposition so it is the old adage, keep your opposition so it is the old adage, keep your friends close but your enemies keep your friends close but your enemies closer. so there needs
What it was like for a leader speech, sometimes they can be a bit more bombastic, a bit more, dare i say, inspiring, a bit more policy filled but i think the calculation that team liz truss have made as they have announced a lot over the last few days, they don t have to announce new stuff and secondly they want to just try and get the party back onside, and get things back on track, but one thing i think that will be mulled overfour weeks track, but one thing i think that will be mulled over four weeks and weeks to come is that warning that more disruption is likely as a liz truss tries to change the economic direction. the big question i suspect a lot of people will be asking is what disruption is worth it and what that means four people s mortgages, for interest rates around the country and fundamentally for the country and fundamentally for the pound and people s pockets. thank you very much. here is what
Liz truss says people should trust her to do what it takes in her first speech to the conservative party conference as leader. after a u turn on tax, and rows about a possible squeeze on benefits, the prime minister talked about growth and focused on trying to sell her economic vision. whenever there s change, there is disruption, and not everybody will be in favour of change, but everyone will benefit from the results a growing economy and a better future. applause her speech was briefly disrupted by greenpeace protesters who were ejected from the hall.