The ‘anti-growth coalition’: who are Liz Truss’s new enemies?

PM says environmental activists, unions and podcasters are all holding Britain back

Liz Truss speaking the the Conservative Party conference
The prime minister told the Tory party conference that the coalition ‘peddle the same old answers’
(Image credit: Leon Neal/Getty Images))

Liz Truss has hit out at an “anti-growth coalition” of critics including environmentalists, podcasters, the “Twitterati” and even taxi passengers from North London.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.