Nursery World - Liz Truss says priority is 'growth, growth, growth'

Liz Truss revealed no new details of childcare reforms, or any other new policy announcements, during her speech to the Conservative Party conference, but said her three priorities for the economy were ‘growth, growth, growth'.

Liz Truss giving her keynote speech at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham PHOTO YouTube

The prime minister was interrupted early on in the speech – while reiterating what the government had done to help people with energy bills – by two Greenpeace activists who unfurled a banner with the words, ‘Who voted for this?’

They were booed by conference delegates, with Truss saying, ‘Let’s get them removed.’

She then joked that they had arrived too early, ‘saying that later on in her speech she would be talking about the anti-growth coalition.'

Later she listed ‘Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNP, the militant unions, the vested interests dressed up as thinktanks, the talking heads, the Brexit deniers, Extinction Rebellion and some of the people we had in the hall earlier’ as those who she thought were part of an ‘anti-growth coalition’.

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