‘Economically illiterate’: PM’s Tory conference speech gets frosty reception

Next boss, thinktanks and unions criticise Boris Johnson, saying shortages cannot be blustered away'

Business leaders rounded on Boris Johnson for lacking a coherent economic plan after he delivered a boosterish conference speech that made barely a mention of the supply chain crisis.

The address was condemned as bombastic but vacuous and economically illiterate" by the free market Adam Smith Institute, while the Conservative thinktank Bright Blue issued a stark warning.