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| British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives on stage dancing to Abba’s ‘Dancing Queen’ before delivering her keynote address on the final day of at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, Britain, October 3, 2018 |
British Prime Minister Theresa May declared on Wednesday that her governmentโs austerity push was over after nearly a decade of spending cuts in many areas of public services.
โWe are not just a party to clean up a mess, we are the party to steer a course to a better future,โ May said in a speech to her Conservative Partyโs annual conference.
โA decade after the financial crash, people need to know that the austerity it led to is over and that their hard work has paid off.โ
May said the governmentโs new multi-year spending plan due next year would continue to bring down debt levels but would see support for public services go up.
Britainโs budget deficit has been cut from nearly 10 percent of gross domestic product in 2010 to around 2 percent.
Mayโs finance minister Philip Hammond has said Britainโs public debt levels remain too high at more than 84 percent of GDP and he has vowed to bring down that ratio each year.
