Conservative leadership: Liz Truss policy guide (full)

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Liz Truss

  1. Says she will reverse the recent rise in National Insurance, which came into effect in April
  2. Pledges to scrap a planned rise in corporation tax - set to increase from 19% to 25% in 2023
  3. Would suspend what is known as the “green levy” - part of your energy bill that pays for social and green projects
  4. Says she will pay for the cuts by spreading the UK’s “Covid debt” over a longer period
  5. Promises to change taxes to make it easier for people to stay at home to care for children or elderly relatives
  6. Wants to create new “low-tax and low-regulation zones” across the country to create hubs for innovation and enterprise
  7. Says she won’t cut public spending unless there is a way to do so that won’t lead to future problems
  8. Would bring target of spending 2.5% of GDP on defence forward to 2026 and introduce a new target of 3% by 2030
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Cost of living:

  1. Says she will tackle the crisis by putting money back into people’s pockets, such as by reversing the National Insurance rise
  2. Would suspend what is known as the “green levy” - part of your energy bill that pays for social and green projects
  3. Promises to change taxes to make it easier for people to stay at home to care for children or elderly relatives
  4. Says the Bank of England needs to do more to tackle inflation, arguing “we haven’t been tough enough on the monetary supply” during a leadership debate
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Climate:

  1. Says she will honour the goal of reaching net zero by 2050 and spoke of “accelerating our transition to net zero” at the COP26 climate summit
  2. Would suspend what is known as the “green levy” - part of your energy bill that pays for social and green projects
  3. Would review the ban on fracking
  4. Says the UK needs to build more nuclear power stations and small modular nuclear reactors
  5. Wants to protect wildlife and biodiversity better and would launch a new UK survey of wildlife to understand which species are endangered
  6. As environment secretary, she cut subsidies for solar farms calling them “a blight on the landscape”
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Brexit:

  1. Argues she can be trusted with Brexit despite voting Remain in the 2016 referendum
  2. Responsible for introducing the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill, which could override parts of the post-Brexit deal between the UK and the EU
  3. Promises to scrap or replace by the end of 2023 EU laws deemed to hold back the economy
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Health & Social Care:

  1. Says GP services need to be more accessible in order to reduce the pressures on hospital services
  2. Says there should be more mental health support available in schools
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Education:

  1. Pledges to give every child “the best opportunity to succeed” wherever they are from and whatever their background
  2. Would expand existing high-performing academy schools, and replace failing establishments with free schools
  3. Promises parents more childcare around the school day and to widen the range of providers who accept government childcare entitlements
  4. Wants to reform university admission procedures so students apply after getting their A-levels (or equivalent) rather than based on predicted grades
  5. Says students receiving top grades should be automatically invited to apply to Oxford and Cambridge
  6. Wants more mental health support available in schools
  7. Says she wants schools to provide single sex toilets

End … for now … :bookmark_tabs:

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And how would that help the students? The students need to have better teachers, more supportive parents and, above all, to be able to work on their own initiative if they want to succeed.

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AFAIK, Ms Truss has not expanded on that statement … :man_shrugging:

(probably because she doesn’t know)

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-09-03/even-liz-truss-supporters-worry-she-could-wreak-havoc-for-the-uk
To compound the problem, her determination to promote ideological loyalists over seasoned officials risks leaving her with little protection if the public backlash starts to grow. A clip of Health Secretary Steve Barclay being harangued by a woman outside a hospital last month was seen as a warning shot of the public anger that could come. A spokesman for the Truss campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment on the concerns about her plans.
There is expected to be more state support for vulnerable people and pensioners, with one person involved in policy discussions saying Truss is likely to abandon her campaign pledge on handouts to effectively cover the increase in energy bills for the poorest. One plan discussed this week looked at increasing existing discounts for households that Sunak lined up for this winter when he was chancellor under Johnson, according to people familiar.

Even so, one supporter said that MPs are worried that the sums being considered aren’t enough to help millions of lower- and middle- earning Britons who will struggle to pay their bills. Another predicted Truss would have to announce a second package because the first would be met with a public outcry.
Her plans to cut taxes, subsidize energy bills and raise defense spending to 3% of GDP simply don’t add up, the aide said, adding that she doesn’t look prepared for a coming collision with reality.

The parliamentary party though is so fractious that MPs are already speculating about how soon it will be before rumors start circulating about letters of no confidence being submitted.

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The British public have been souring on the governing Conservatives after Boris Johnson was forced from office in July follow a string of scandals and the party is running about 10 percentage points behind the opposition Labour Party, with an election due in 2024. Truss’s policies have struck a chord with the Tory party members whose votes will decide the next prime minister when the result of their ballot is announced on Monday, but MPs are concerned about whether she will also be able to address the problems facing the country as a whole.

They’re not the only ones … :scream_cat:

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Perhaps Truss has hidden abilities?

It seems unlikely, though, and, IMO, she will be chewed up and spat out within months … :exclamation:

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I’ve always thought this to be the case…she’ll be away by Christmas, I’m fairly sure of it. With Winter coming, energy costs, food prices…no…she won’t cope with that. They will vote no confidence and either a GE will be called or we will have to endure this whole rigmarole again :roll_eyes:

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I think Truss will end up with the screaming abdabs … :scream_cat:

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And it will be all our fault because we didn’t listen! :hear_no_evil:

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How many of the policies posted here on 3rd aug are still on the list? She has a habit of doing u turns.

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what do they say?“when a man makes a mess it is usually a women who has to clear it up?”