Today [Thursday 16th January 2025] MP, Leader of the
Conservative Party, will give her first major speech of 2025 on
rebuilding trust in the Conservative Party.
In her speech, is expected to say:
“We are all getting poorer. Politicians across all parties have
not told the truth about this and instead keep prescribing
solutions that are actually making things
worse.
This problem is broader than one party, one leader, or one period
of government. Generations of leaders and entire ranks of
senior managers have been trying and failing for a long time.
Many have not been honest with the public about the challenges we
face. And others have not even been honest with
themselves.
The truth is that Britain is failing to compete in a world that
is changing.
And Britain is not working for its
citizens.
Certainly not in the way it used to.
The Conservative Party is under
new leadership.
For the next four years and beyond we are going to be telling the
British people the truth, even when it's difficult
to hear.
The truth about the mistakes we made
The truth about the problems we face.
And the truth about the actions we must
take
to get ourselves out of this mess.
Labour are having even worse problems than we did, because they
announced policy without a plan.
Policies without a plan are not policies… they're just
announcements.
That's why Labour are struggling. It's the old cliche that
“failing to plan, is planning to fail.”
Because when you haven't worked out what you're going to do in
opposition, you will accept whatever you're given in
government.
That's why announced mad and
bad ideas on snatching winter fuel and taxing family
farms.
Those options were presented to us, time and time again by
officials, and we rejected them time and time again because they
would hurt so many people for so
little benefit.
The Chancellor took them because she has no ideas of her
own.
It's the same with education.
The schools bill going through parliament now has one or two bits
on safeguarding that may be good… the rest of it
is worse than garbage. It is pure
vandalism. The new Labour government will not fix any of the
problems we have faced for decades. Because they wasted their
time in opposition.
We will not do the same.
The public will never trust politicians unless we can accept our
mistakes.
Labour are making a lot of mistakes. But the difference
between me and is that he doesn't believe
he's ever made a mistake.
I will acknowledge the Conservative Party made
mistakes.
We announced that we would leave the European Union
before we had a plan for growth outside the EU.
We made it the law that we would deliver Net-Zero carbon
emissions by 2050. And only then did we start
thinking about how we would do
that.
We announced that we would lower immigration, but immigration
kept going up.
These mistakes were made because we told people what they wanted
to hear first and then tried to work it out
later.
That is going to stop under my leadership. If we are going
to turn our country around, we're going to have to say some
things that aren't easy to hear.”
