Angela Rayner mocks Liz Truss for ‘crashing the pork market’ in Labour conference speech

Angela Rayner closed the Labour party with a speech which mocked Liz Truss for “crashing the pork market”. The speech came after the pound plummeted following the government’s mini-budget revealed last week.

The deputy Labour leader made fun of a speech the now prime minister made as environment secretary in 2014, when she spoke about cheese and pork markets. Liz Truss had said: “We import two thirds of our cheese. That. Is. A. Disgrace.”

Bringing the Labour Party conference in Liverpool to a close, Ms Rayner said of the conservatives: “Tough on crime? They brought crime to Number 10.

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“Defenders of the free market? The market’s in free-fall. England’s green and pleasant land? Frack it.

“From the party of stability to causing earthquakes. From the party of business, to a slap down from the IMF. From the party of serious government to the party of parties.

“Liz Truss has even crashed the pork market. Now that is a disgrace. You’d think that snouts in the trough was the one thing they could manage.”

In her speech Ms Rayner also called for Labour to celebrate its historic successes. Her comments came after Sir Keir Starmer declared the country was ready for a “Labour moment”, as it had been in 1945, 1964 and 1997 when his predecessors entered No.10.

The deputy Labour leader made further digs at former prime minister Boris Johnson. She said: “I do owe him one apology.

“I said he couldn’t organise a booze-up in a brewery. Turns out he could organise a booze-up pretty much anywhere, just a shame he couldn’t organise anything else.

“We’re a party with a serious plan, he had a plan for a serious party.

“I’ll miss one