There’s been no short of soul-searching in Birmingham this week, as Conservatives wonder how they can challenge an increasingly threatening looking Labour party. In a speech at an Institute for Economic Affairs bash last night, Treasury minister Liz Truss thought she was able to identify the problem:
‘There are some people in Britain who say we can’t change the political weather. That Britain has become a more tax and spend country, that somehow we have to accept the inevitability of becoming a Miliband-esque, Jeremy Corbyn-esque fudge of a party, and I don’t believe in that for one minute.’
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But who could Truss have possibly had in mind, as she rallied against the Conservative’s slow descent into Milibandism? Mr S thinks he may have the answer. After all, who was responsible for the following policies nicked from Labour:
- A plan to cap energy prices, raided from Ed Miliband’s 2015 manifesto.
- A pledge to raise the minimum wage to the highest in Europe.
- A proposal to put workers on boards, since scrapped, and then re-adopted by Jeremy Corbyn.
- The idea to cap executive’s pay, which was run past a horrified Conservative cabinet.
- A ban on letting agent fees.
- Means-testing the Winter Fuel Allowance.
Who else of course, but Truss’s own boss, the Prime Minister.
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