Former home secretary Priti Patel is to accuse Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng of “spending today with no thought of tomorrow” as the prime minister faces mounting criticism from senior figures within her own party.
Ms Patel, an ally of Boris Johnson, will also call on the Conservatives to regain their reputation after a torrid ten days in which the chancellor’s mini-Budget spooked markets and prompted fears of mortgage misery for millions.
In an attack on the government’s unfunded tax cuts, she will say the Conservatives will “live or die” on their economic credibility.
She is expected to tell a fringe event at Conservative conference in Birmingham that the party needs to commit to sustainable public spending.
Just hours before she is due to speak the government announced another U-turn, bringing forward the publication of its economic plans to later this month. That move came less than 24 hours after another about turn, when ministers bowed to pressure from furious Tory MPs and abandoned plans for a tax cut for the richest.
Ms Patel is expected to say: “We are spending today with no thought of tomorrow, and like the Blob in the old horror film, the more resources are absorbed today, the bigger the problem gets and the more resources it will need to eat up tomorrow.
“Right now, we have got into a pattern of borrowing huge amounts to fix today’s urgent problems or generate short-term populist headlines. Each time it seems that there’s a good case, but what does this mean for future generations?
“I want to see our party regain its credibility by restoring its commitment to sustainable public spending … which is affordable today, tomorrow and for the foreseeable future.”
Her comments, first reported in the Times, are another sign of Johnson allies turning their ire on Ms Truss. She secured the support of many in her drive to become Tory leader this summer. And she was praised by some of his supporters for standing by him during the partygate scandal. But since taking office ministers have repeatedly attacked the policies of Mr Johnson’s administration.
On Monday another Johnson ally Nadine Dorries hit out at Ms Truss and suggested the prime minister should call an early general election to get a mandate for her plans. Ms Dorries said there was “widespread dismay” at the prime minister for ditching key parts of her predecessor’s agenda.
She said: “No one asked for this. C4 (Channel 4) sale, online safety, BBC licence fee review, all signed off by Cabinet all ready to go, all stopped
“If Liz wants a whole new mandate, she must take to the country.”
At the weekend, she also accused Ms Truss of throwing Mr Kwarteng “under a bus”, by saying the decision to cut taxes for the wealthy had been made by the chancellor and not the cabinet.
“One of” Mr Johnson’s faults had been that “he could sometimes be too loyal”, she tweeted. “However, there is a balance and throwing your Chancellor under a bus on the first day of conference really isn’t it.”
Fingers crossed, she said on Sunday, “things improve and settle down from now”.
This is the same Pretty Vacant that also contributed to *Britannia Unchained*?
I’d have thought she’d be delighted.
Ah, but then she was so useless as Home Sec, her fellow Unhinged have ditched her.
I’m sure she’s very angry about all that money being spent…how will she fund her generalised evil if the rest of the government is frittering it away on things like stopping people dying!?!?!
Couldn’t the reporters just have waited for her to actually say it? You know, to be sure that’s what’s actually said rather than predicting.
Wow, this government has been in power for like a month and they are already at each other throat.
I mentioned previously that Truss was speed running it, but I think that was an understatement.
“She said: “No one asked for this. C4 (Channel 4) sale, online safety, BBC Iicence fee review, all signed off by Cabinet all ready to go, all stopped”
I’m sure most people are against the sale of Channel 4 and I suspect a significant percentage of those that thought it was a good idea didn’t actually understand its finances…because they’d been misled by idiot MPs.
No one who understands anything about technology thinks the online safety bill was a good idea.
It’s potentially very harmful and would achieve almost none of the things it was supposed to.
So what was the downpayment to the Rwandan government then?
Zionists don’t care about anything thing but their collective agenda.
We need to get her out ASAP.
Truss was on borrowed time from day 1, she is gonna spend while she can and then ride off into the sunset where all the beneficiaries of her actions can reward her with directorships and lucrative speaking gigs.
What do you mean ‘to accuse’? surely us knowing about it means its already happened?
So that’s at least a couple of the last Tory government speaking out against this current government… Distancing themselves fo a comeback maybe?
These stories of inner divisions are getting more and more weird.
Didn’t Nadine Dories publicly back Liz Truss for PM?
What the heck’s going on?
She’s just annoyed she can’t use that money to curb civil liberties.
This is truly a Trussterfuck if Priti is coming across as the ‘rational’ one.
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Former home secretary Priti Patel is to accuse Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng of “spending today with no thought of tomorrow” as the prime minister faces mounting criticism from senior figures within her own party.
Ms Patel, an ally of Boris Johnson, will also call on the Conservatives to regain their reputation after a torrid ten days in which the chancellor’s mini-Budget spooked markets and prompted fears of mortgage misery for millions.
In an attack on the government’s unfunded tax cuts, she will say the Conservatives will “live or die” on their economic credibility.
She is expected to tell a fringe event at Conservative conference in Birmingham that the party needs to commit to sustainable public spending.
Just hours before she is due to speak the government announced another U-turn, bringing forward the publication of its economic plans to later this month. That move came less than 24 hours after another about turn, when ministers bowed to pressure from furious Tory MPs and abandoned plans for a tax cut for the richest.
Ms Patel is expected to say: “We are spending today with no thought of tomorrow, and like the Blob in the old horror film, the more resources are absorbed today, the bigger the problem gets and the more resources it will need to eat up tomorrow.
“Right now, we have got into a pattern of borrowing huge amounts to fix today’s urgent problems or generate short-term populist headlines. Each time it seems that there’s a good case, but what does this mean for future generations?
“I want to see our party regain its credibility by restoring its commitment to sustainable public spending … which is affordable today, tomorrow and for the foreseeable future.”
Her comments, first reported in the Times, are another sign of Johnson allies turning their ire on Ms Truss. She secured the support of many in her drive to become Tory leader this summer. And she was praised by some of his supporters for standing by him during the partygate scandal. But since taking office ministers have repeatedly attacked the policies of Mr Johnson’s administration.
On Monday another Johnson ally Nadine Dorries hit out at Ms Truss and suggested the prime minister should call an early general election to get a mandate for her plans. Ms Dorries said there was “widespread dismay” at the prime minister for ditching key parts of her predecessor’s agenda.
She said: “No one asked for this. C4 (Channel 4) sale, online safety, BBC licence fee review, all signed off by Cabinet all ready to go, all stopped
“If Liz wants a whole new mandate, she must take to the country.”
At the weekend, she also accused Ms Truss of throwing Mr Kwarteng “under a bus”, by saying the decision to cut taxes for the wealthy had been made by the chancellor and not the cabinet.
“One of” Mr Johnson’s faults had been that “he could sometimes be too loyal”, she tweeted. “However, there is a balance and throwing your Chancellor under a bus on the first day of conference really isn’t it.”
Fingers crossed, she said on Sunday, “things improve and settle down from now”.
This is the same Pretty Vacant that also contributed to *Britannia Unchained*?
I’d have thought she’d be delighted.
Ah, but then she was so useless as Home Sec, her fellow Unhinged have ditched her.
I’m sure she’s very angry about all that money being spent…how will she fund her generalised evil if the rest of the government is frittering it away on things like stopping people dying!?!?!
Couldn’t the reporters just have waited for her to actually say it? You know, to be sure that’s what’s actually said rather than predicting.
Wow, this government has been in power for like a month and they are already at each other throat.
I mentioned previously that Truss was speed running it, but I think that was an understatement.
“She said: “No one asked for this. C4 (Channel 4) sale, online safety, BBC Iicence fee review, all signed off by Cabinet all ready to go, all stopped”
I’m sure most people are against the sale of Channel 4 and I suspect a significant percentage of those that thought it was a good idea didn’t actually understand its finances…because they’d been misled by idiot MPs.
No one who understands anything about technology thinks the online safety bill was a good idea.
It’s potentially very harmful and would achieve almost none of the things it was supposed to.
So what was the downpayment to the Rwandan government then?
Zionists don’t care about anything thing but their collective agenda.
We need to get her out ASAP.
Truss was on borrowed time from day 1, she is gonna spend while she can and then ride off into the sunset where all the beneficiaries of her actions can reward her with directorships and lucrative speaking gigs.
What do you mean ‘to accuse’? surely us knowing about it means its already happened?
So that’s at least a couple of the last Tory government speaking out against this current government… Distancing themselves fo a comeback maybe?
These stories of inner divisions are getting more and more weird.
Didn’t Nadine Dories publicly back Liz Truss for PM?
What the heck’s going on?
She’s just annoyed she can’t use that money to curb civil liberties.
This is truly a Trussterfuck if Priti is coming across as the ‘rational’ one.
(Rather a low bar to clear, I’ll admit.)