The latest from Manchester, as Sky News understands the government has decided to axe the northern leg of HS2 and chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivers his Conservative Party conference speech.
The chancellor's speech usually sets the agenda at conference, but Jeremy Hut was playing catch up today.Today he attempted to regain control of the narrative: chiefly that bringing down inflation is the"best tax cut" the government can give to the public.
Just minutes before Jeremy Hunt stood up to deliver his Tory conference speech came the news that the northern leg of HS2 is indeed to be scrapped.Since 2010, unemployment in north west England has halved and there are 200,000 new jobs, he boasted. But it's still a massive blow to the economy of the North West and will dismay many of the Red Wall Tory MPs defending a slender majority in the north of England.This will be seen as a short term decision to save money, perhaps to find some money for the tax cuts being demanded by Tory right-wingers.
Mr Stride adds that"benefits should never be a substitute for hard work", saying:"We cannot live just with expectations of others, we also must expect things from ourselves"; Mr Strike says he will fast track an enforcement process for fathers to pay for child support - without having to go through the courts; Government 'in control of the narrative' with HS2 has been discussing the government reportedly scrapping the northern leg of HS2.
He added that we'll have to see how this decision impacts businesses and politics in the days ahead. The chancellor's speech usually sets the agenda at conference, but Jeremy Hunt was playing catch up today.Today he attempted to regain control of the narrative: chiefly that bringing down inflation is the"best tax cut" the government can give to the public.
She covered her business and trade brief, and also discussed race, sex-based rights, and the"calamity" of a potential Labour government.Ms Badenoch opens her speech by criticising opposition parties; She hits out at Sir Keir Starmer who claims he wants to"tax more, regulate more, and ask the EU what to do next";
"It wasn't a tough decision for us to reject the divisive agenda of critical race theory. We believe as Martin Luther King once said, 'people should be judged by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin'"; Those coming out of the Liz Truss speech seemed happy with what they heard - but they also were people who supported her in the first place.Philip Groves has been a member of the Conservative Party for decades.
Lucy Haire, who describes herself as a swing voter who supported both Thatcher and Blair, says she doesn't know who to vote for.She pointed out that now she is no longer in charge, Ms Truss doesn't have to lay out the timings for her reforms - something which she was not very good at in office. In his speech to the Conservative Party conference, the chancellor confirmed plans for an uplift to the national living wage and a squeeze on benefits.
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