Truss takes aim at ‘anti-growth coalition’ on final day of turbulent conference

PM pledges to get country through the tempest' but Tories leave Birmingham downbeat and divided

Liz Truss has attempted to unite her party around a common enemy of the anti-growth coalition" of the unions, remainers and green campaigners after a turbulent Tory conference that left her party downbeat and divided, and her leadership in peril.

After a fractious four-day gathering in Birmingham, the prime minister pledged to get the country through the tempest" of the economic crisis this winter by pressing on with her economic plan for growth despite the disruption" it risks unleashing.