I'll Deliver, Says Truss As Speech Is Heckled

Liz Truss said she would make the "difficult but necessary" choices to get economic growth, but was heckled by environmental campaigners during her first conference speech as Tory leader.

The Prime Minister promised to steer the country through the "tempest" and "get Britain moving" Greenpeace protesters holding a flag which read "who voted for this?" were ejected from the hall after disrupting the speech, with Ms Truss ordering security officers to "get them removed" Environmental campaigners were identified by Ms Truss as "enemies of enterprise" as part of an "anti-growth coalition" including opposition parties, trade unions and "Brexit-deniers" The interruption to her speech in Birmingham followed a bruising conference for Ms Truss after just a month in the job, including a U-turn over a totemic tax policy and dissent within her Cabinet.

Despite the decision to ditch plans to scrap the 45p top rate of tax, Ms Truss insisted "we must stay the course" in pursuit of her three priorities: "Growth, growth and growth." She told the audience: "This mission will be difficult but necessary. We have no alternative if we want to get our economy growing again.

"I am ready to make hard choices.

You can trust me to do what it takes.

"The status quo is not an option.