United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to change the direction of the British economy, shifting away from its reliance on cheap imported labour, as he shrugged off the ongoing fuel, food and industry crises as “merely a function of growth and economic revival”.

In a speech to end the Conservative Party’s four-day annual conference in Manchester, Johnson on Wednesday night pledged that his top team will get on with “the job of uniting and levelling up across the UK”, calling it “the greatest project that any government can embark on”, reports Xinhua news agency. The Prime Minister vowed to address economic inequality to provide greater opportunities around the whole country, by carrying out new road, rail and technology infrastructure projects after “decades of ducked decisions”. Johnson said he would end “decades of drift and dither” and tackle “long-term structural weaknesses in the British economy”, especially a reliance on cheap imported labour.