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/21'21 - /i] Truss shrugged off protests and brutal infighting as she vowed to battle the ‘anti-growth coalition’ and create a ‘new era’ for %ritain with a true-blue Tory vision in her her conference speech yesterday.

Trying to draw a line under days of damaging splits over ta[ rates and benefits the PM told activists in %irmingham she is determined to take the country through the ‘tempest’ of the global economic crisis after C29I'- and the war in Ukraine.

And she spelt out a starkly different

*E5MA1< - )ormer *erman chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday won the United 1ations U1 refugee agency’s prestigious 1ansen Award receiving praise for her determination to protect asylum seekers while in office.

Pointing to the more than . million refugees and asylum seekers welcomed by *ermany in and at the height of the migrant crisis sparked especially by the war in Syria the U1+C5 selection committee hailed Merkel’s ‘leadership courage and compassion.’

At the time the woman who lead the *erman government for years said the situation “put our European values to the test as seldom before. It was no more and no less than a humanitarian imperative.´ The U1 refugee agency highlighted how she had called on her fellow *ermans to reMect divisive nationalism urging them instead to be ‘compassionate and open-minded’.

“%y helping more than a million refugees to survive and rebuild Angela Merkel displayed great moral and political courage ´ U1+C5 Chief )ilippo *randi said in a statement hailing her determination to stand up for human rights humanitarian principles and international law.

“It was true leadership appealing to our common humanity standing firm against those who preached fear and discrimination ´ he said.

(Daily Mail) Liz Truss told Tory activists in Birmingham she is determined to defy the ‘anti-growth coalition’ and take the country through the ‘tempest’ to a ‘new era’.