TSC's Andrew Tyrie attacks govt growth plans

In the remarks, made on the eve of the Conservative Party conference, he criticised the government's strategy to create a green economy, its increased spending on overseas aid, and the cost of Britain's military assistance to the Libyan people. "The Big Society; localism; the green strategy - whether right or wrong; these initiatives have seemed at best irrelevant to the task in hand, if not downright contradictory to it; likewise the huge spending hike on overseas aid and the cost of the Libyan expedition," he told the Times. Tyrie also suggested further fiscal tightening was needed:...