Angela Rayner takes mick out of Liz Truss’s ‘disgrace’ pork markets speech
Angela Rayner fired barb after barb at Liz Truss and Boris Johnson as she accused the Conservatives of plunging Britain into chaos.
In her party conference speech, Labour’s deputy leader said the government was a ‘ministry of all the talentless’, adding: ‘When I looked at the benches opposite last week, I thought the clowns had escaped the circus.’
Running through policy pledges made in recent days, she said of the Tories: ‘Tough on crime? They brought crime to No.10. Defenders of the free market? The market’s in free-fall.
‘England’s green and pleasant land? Frack it. From the party of stability to causing earthquakes. From the party of business to a slap down from the IMF.’
Turning her ire on the premier, she quipped: ‘Liz Truss has even crashed the pork market. Now… that. Is. A. Disgrace. You’d think snouts in the trough was the one thing they could manage.’
The gag ridiculed comments made by Ms Truss in 2014, when environment secretary.
In a much-memed speech she said it ‘was a disgrace’ Britain imported two-thirds of its cheese. She was also mocked for saying she was going to Beijing to open pork markets.
Ms Rayner then suggested Mr Johnson will be plotting his comeback ‘with a glint in his eye’ amid financial chaos triggered by last week’s mini-budget.
Referring to the Partygate scandal she added: ‘I said he couldn’t organise a booze-up in a brewery.
‘Turns out he could organise a booze-up pretty much anywhere. He claimed he was forced from office by the “deep state”. The only deep state was the one he left our country in.’
She finished by saying Labour was a ‘party with a serious plan’ that would be ‘radical, responsible, realistic’ in power.
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