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Nicola Sturgeon accuses Liz Truss of 'ranting' during Tory conference speech

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Nicola Sturgeon has accused Liz Truss of "ranting" about her opponents during the Prime Minister's speech to the Conservative party conference today.The embattled Tory leader used her address in Birmingham to blast what she called an "anti-growth coalition" that included Labour, trade unions and the SNP leader for apparently holding back economic progress in the UK.The Prime Minister said: "Keir Starmer wants to put extra taxes on the companies we need to invest in our energy security and his sticking plaster solution will only last six months.“He has no long-term plan and no vision for Britain."Mark Drakeford in Wales is cancelling road-building projects and refusing to build the M4 relief road."Nicola Sturgeon won’t build new nuclear power stations to solve the energy crisis in Scotland."Have these people ever seen tax rises they don’t like or an industry they don’t want to control?"Sturgeon later hit back: “Ranting about an imaginary ‘anti growth coalition’ is just an attempt to obscure the hard reality that the biggest brake on UK growth is Brexit - and that’s on the Tories.”Truss' comments were made as she doubled down on her Government’s disastrous mini budget that nearly tanked the UK economy.Truss’ Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, used his mini budget to propose a cut to the top rate of income tax, reverse corporation tax rises and lift curbs on bankers’ bonuses.The unfunded plans sent the pound into freefall and led to Kwarteng u-turning on cutting the 45p rate.Truss told Tory delegates: “Cutting taxes is the right thing to do morally and economically.“Morally, because the state doesn’t spend its own money: it spends the people’s money.“Economically, because if people keep more of their own money, they’re inspired to

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