Huhne warns right-wing Tories will wreck economy

CHRIS Huhne launched the fiercest attack of the Lib Dem conference on the party’s Tory partners in government, likening some of their MPs to the right-wing Tea Party movement in America.

The Energy Secretary and former leadership contender described the Conservative right wing as “madcap” and warned “they will wreck the economy”.

He used his speech to round on Conservatives who “slaver over tax cuts for the rich” and claimed if they failed to compromise, Britain’s economic recovery would be “put in peril”.

Mr Huhne’s criticism is the most explicit verbal assault made from the conference platform by a senior Liberal Democrat on their coalition partners this week.

He said: “This coalition government saved Britain’s credit standing by compromise. The danger if you don’t compromise is now clear from America. There, the markets looked over the brink when the mad-cap Republican right in Congress would not compromise with the president.

“Let that be a warning to the Conservative right here – we need no Tea Party tendency in Britain.

“We are all in this together and we can’t get out of it alone.”