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Truss press conference: she reverses Corporation Tax cut and refuses to apologise

Liz Truss says she wants growth but went too far in her mini-budget.

She’ll keep the increase in Corporation Tax now, raising an extra £18 billion per year.

She’s asked former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to become Chancellor (so he’ll do as much damage to the Treasury as he did to the NHS).

She’s keeping the energy price “guarantee” (note: no longer a cap).

“This is difficult but we will get through this storm,” she says – not for a moment admitting that she is responsible for it.

She goes to questions – and is immediately asked why she has junked the Corporation Tax cut on which she was elected Tory leader. She evades answering.

Second question: the 45p tax cut was her idea, so was the Corporation Tax cut. But Kwarteng had to go. Why does she have to stay? She evades answering.

Third question: what credibility does she have to continue governing? She puts it all on Jeremy Hunt, the new Chancellor, and says they have to “deliver the mission in a different way”.

Fourth question: will she apologise to her party for having “totally trashed” its “reputation for economic competence”. She evades answering.

And she leaves. As she goes, a voice can be heard very clearly asking…

“Aren’t you going to say sorry?”

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Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal would trash workers’ rights. Here’s why that is important

If you are a working-age citizen of the United Kingdom, your rights are at risk from Boris Johnson’s Brexit.

What, you didn’t know? Where have you been?

Okay, I’m pulling your leg a little. The fact is that very few people are likely to be aware of the threat to your rights – because mainstream media outlets like the BBC aren’t reporting it.

It seems it’s sexier to make it about personalities like Boris Johnson.

So here’s a little video to give you a small idea of why your rights are important and what you may lose without even realising it:

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Standards on environment, safety and human rights to be slashed for a grubby trade deal with Trump

Boris Johnson and Donald Trump: Enemies of the UK?

The Tory minister who once complained that the UK imports too much cheese is set to abolish the UK’s environmental safeguards – to get a food import deal with Donald Trump.

Theresa May promised that the UK would keep within EU rules on the environment, safety standards and human rights after Brexit.

But Boris Johnson will get rid of all these rules – that protect you – so he can sign a grubby deal with Donald Trump, to import genetically modified, inferior US food products at a high cost to the UK.

He describes this a way of gaining “flexibility”.

It seems responsibility for scrapping our protections will fall to cheese-loving international trade secretary Liz Truss.

This will require a huge admission of hypocrisy on her part – the woman who said importing two-thirds of our cheese was a “disgrace” –

– now seems perfectly happy to lower standards across the country in order to import all kinds of junk.

EU officials say that British negotiators are particularly keen to jettison EU restrictions on genetically modified foods – a key demand of American trade negotiators.

One EU official with knowledge of the Brexit talks suggested US trade officials appeared to have been in contact with British negotiators and told them standards would need to be slashed if there was any chance of a US trade deal.

Liz Truss, the international trade secretary, said scrapping the protections was “vital for giving us the freedom and flexibility to strike new trade deals and become more competitive”.

And of course rejecting EU standards means there can be no free trade deal with the bloc after the UK leaves it.

The intention seems to be to put the entire country at Donald Trump’s mercy – and he doesn’t seem to have much of that.

It seems clear that this plan is in the interests of nobody in the UK – apart from, possibly, Boris Johnson.

He certainly seems not to be interested in his duty to act in the interests of the people of this nation.

Of course, none of this can happen while the UK remains in the EU – and without an exit deal that MPs and MEPs can support, the UK will do just that.

Source: Brexit: Boris Johnson moves to scrap environment safeguards to get deal with Trump | The Independent

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