'Make Britain grow!' Truss stages major intervention as crowds swarm into hall leaving conference empty
Liz Truss stages major intervention as former PM demands tax cuts: 'Make Britain grow!'
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Liz Truss has staged a major intervention on the fringes of the Conservative Party conference, demanding tax cuts and the removal of red tape.
She called for the Government to "axe the tax, cut bills and build houses" in order to "make life better and easier for the British public, and give them the freedom to thrive."
She added: "There is no reason we cannot go into the next election with a platform that is proudly conservative.
"Let’s stop taxing and banning things, and start producing and building things."
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She also called for the Government to incentivise housebuilding, saying: "Britain must get building.
"The price of housing has soared out of control, making it impossible for younger people to get a foot on the housing ladder and keeping them trapped in punishing rental markets.
"There are too many politicians who say we need to build more homes and then baulk at removing one line of regulation. Newt protection or bat bridge anyone?
"If we really want houses to be built, we’ve got to incentivise it."
She added: "We’ve got to give local communities the freedom to create housebuilding zones with no red tape through the offer of lower taxes.
"And we should reduce taxes in these areas enough so that we are building something like half a million homes a year.
“This is what conservatives are supposed to believe in: cutting red tape, lower taxes and trusting that markets will find the solutions we all want."
Speaking at the same event, Priti Patel demanded tax cuts, hitting out at what she described as a "socialist disease".
She said high taxes will cause Britain to "sleepwalk into a deeper, darker and more sinister version of socialism under Starmer and Labour".
The former Home Secretary called for the next Conservative manifesto to include tax cuts, job creation and "enterprise-supporting values".
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She told the packed out event: "We must put an end to this socialist disease and put a stop to the culture of more taxes, more spending and more borrowing.
"But if we don’t cut back, the tax burden will have to keep rising and we will have no growth.
"We cannot Tax our way to Growth. And we cannot spend our way to prosperity.
"We need enterprise and business to grow our economy - they need to invest in jobs and growth, not bankroll a bloated and expanding State."