Austerity is over, May tells Tories
Source: The Times of London
Apologetic PM admits: I got us into this mess, I’ll get us out
Francis Elliott, Political Editor | Sam Coates, Oliver Wright
June 13 2017, 9:00am,
The Times
Theresa May is poised to bring to a close seven years of austerity after Tory MPs warned that they would refuse to vote for further cuts.
The prime minister spent the day apologising to her cabinet and backbenchers, saying that she took full responsibility for losing the party’s Commons majority and running a poor campaign. “I’m the person who got us into this mess and I’m the one who will get us out of it,” she told a meeting of the 1922 Committee last night.
Sources said that she accepted that voters’ patience with austerity was at an end after Boris Johnson, David Davis and a series of Tory MPs told her that she had misjudged the public mood.
The prime minister will meet Arlene Foster, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, in No 10 today to establish the price for propping up a minority Tory government. The Queen’s Speech, due to take place on Monday, will be postponed unless a deal is struck by this evening.
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are waking up and realizing that neoliberalism sucks. Cutting taxes on the rich and, concomitantly, services to everyone else leads only to greater income disparity.
When will Muricans follow suit?
