Liz Truss has shown in her first weeks as Prime Minister she is not fit for the job, according to the SNP depute leader.

Keith Brown opened the SNP annual conference with an attack on the Tory government as “chaotic” and Labour as the “handmaidens of Tory rule”

Brown said in less than a month the new Prime Minister has been responsible for economic and political chaos.

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And with Labour rising in the opinion polls and the party increasingly hopeful of a victory at the next General Election, he warned it will not bring about the change people in Scotland want.

Brown said of Liz Truss: “What we are witnessing now is a Westminster Government tearing apart the fabric of Britain.”
He added she has “delivered more chaos and confusion than even the most pessimistic prediction”.

Brown said, in the opening speech of the SNP conference in Aberdeen: ”In less than a month, she has tanked the economy; risked the pensions of millions; scrapped the cap on bankers’ bonuses; announced then u-turned on income tax cuts for the rich; created a debt crisis; and showed the world she is singularly unfit for the job.”
He added: “It is a sobering thought indeed, that when the history of 2022 is written, it will record that Boris Johnson was not even the worst Prime Minister this year.”

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He said a new Labour Government under Keir Starmer would not offer change and would continue to attempt to block a second referendum on independence.

He said: “As bad as the Tories are – and they are atrocious – any suggestion that a Labour Westminster government will be better for Scotland is simply laughable.
“Keir Starmer is just another Tony Blair.
“Under Starmer, the Labour Party is as Trumpian as the Tories in their denial of Scottish democracy.”
Brown said the SNP had a “cast-iron mandate” to hold an independence referendum.
He said that a Labour win at Westminster would only be followed by another Conservative government in time.
The SNP depute leader said: “But Labour always side with the Tories to protect Westminster control, no matter how high a price the people of Scotland pay.
“Labour supports the deeply damaging Brexit that Scotland did not vote for.
“And never forget, never forgive that, in 2014, it was Labour who championed the Better Together message that only a No vote would deliver economic stability.
He added: “And we know through the bitter lessons of history that Labour are only ever the handmaidens of more Tory rule.
“If they get into power, they are soon turfed out by the Tories. It’s a pattern repeated time after time after time.”