We need a leader who backs Britain in words and deeds

TORY leadership candidate Liz Truss, today officially endorsed by the Express, is right to say “Britain’s best days are ahead of us”, but only if we ditch the doomster dogma that is holding us back.

- Tim Newark

We need to be free to make the most of our natural resources and talents and her true blue conservatism could be the vehicle for just that.

“I am an optimist about the future of this country,” Ms Truss told the Express. “I believe the best days are ahead of us. And I think by keeping taxes low, attracting business investment, getting those post Brexit reforms done… that is the way we are going to succeed, not by talking down our country.”

This is in stark contrast to the “doomsters” at the Treasury and the Bank of England Governor’s gloomy comments last week.

Normally, sterling rises on the announcement of an interest rate increase, but this time it fell yet again as Andrew Bailey predicted a lengthy UK recession. Other economists were aghast.

“Bailey’s contributing to a sense of state failure,” says global strategist Albert Edwards.

Business editor Ambrose Evans-Pritchard added: “The governor’s catastrophism is feeding indignation hysteria in this country, made worse by Brexit derangement syndrome. It is creating a distorted perception at home and across the world that the UK is in a uniquely bad shape.”