Sir Mel Stride will seek to restore the Conservative Party's reputation for economic responsibility as he sets out plans to slash £47 billion of Government spending.The shadow chancellor is expected to use his speech to the Tory conference in Manchester on Monday to set out a plan to cut welfare spending, foreign aid and the Civil Service if his party wins the next election.It follows an opening speech from Kemi Badenoch in which she pledged that "economic responsibility" would "run through this

Sir Mel Stride will seek to restore the Conservative Party's reputation for economic responsibility as he sets out plans to slash £47 billion of Government spending.The shadow chancellor is expected to use his speech to the Tory conference in Manchester on Monday to set out a plan to cut welfare spending, foreign aid and the Civil Service if his party wins the next election.It follows an opening speech from Kemi Badenoch in which she pledged that "economic responsibility" would "run through this conference like the words in a stick of Blackpool rock" in an attempt to distance the Conservatives from ex-prime minister Liz Truss's disastrous mini-budget which spooked financial markets.