#Liz Truss

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24/09/2023 01:23

4 hours ago
Cash Liz Truss can claim as ex-PM could buy 45,000 school meals - or 164,000 lettuces

Cash Liz Truss can claim as ex-PM could buy 45,000 school meals - or 164,000 lettuces

Former PMs are allowed to claim up to £115,000 from the public purse for “administrative costs” arising from their position

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1 day ago
Liz Truss blasts Labour's plan to hand more power to the budget watchdog, warning that it would not help get the economy growing

Liz Truss blasts Labour's plan to hand more power to the budget watchdog, warning that it would not help get the economy growing

The former PM said it 'beggared belief' that Labour thought Britain's problems could be solved by bigger government. She spoke after Starmer told of plans to s [...]

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1 day ago
‘Beggars belief!’ Liz Truss sparks war of words with Labour over blob love-in

‘Beggars belief!’ Liz Truss sparks war of words with Labour over blob love-in

The former PM has slammed Labour's attacks on her this morning, including a new policy to hand yet more powers to the unaccountable blob.

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2 days ago
POLL: Should Liz Truss have access to the post-Prime Ministerial allowance?

POLL: Should Liz Truss have access to the post-Prime Ministerial allowance?

Liz Truss has claimed around £23,000 from her post-Prime Ministerial allowance just five months after resigning from office. Should she have access to the publ [...]

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mirror.co.uk
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3 days ago
Liz Truss has been claiming from £115,000 fund for ex-PMs despite only 49 days in office

Liz Truss has been claiming from £115,000 fund for ex-PMs despite only 49 days in office

Rishi Sunak urged to ‘do right thing’ and stop ex-PM from claiming taxpayers’ cash

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4 days ago
Liz Truss is more realistic than you might think

Liz Truss is more realistic than you might think

The former prime minister was unrepentant about her time in office in a speech yesterday – but knows her free-market ideas are unpopular.

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4 days ago
Liz Truss claims thousands from fund for ex-PMs despite 49 day tenure

Liz Truss claims thousands from fund for ex-PMs despite 49 day tenure

Liz Truss has been claiming from the £115,000-a-year public fund awarded to former prime ministers despite only serving for 49 days.

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5 days ago
Liz Truss slams BBC for their fawning over Bank of England – saying finance chiefs must take blame for mortgage costs

Liz Truss slams BBC for their fawning over Bank of England – saying finance chiefs must take blame for mortgage costs

LIZ Truss launched a brutal attack on the BBC for their fawning over the Bank of England – saying finance chiefs must take some blame for rising mortgage costs [...]

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5 days ago
Unfortunately for the Tories Liz Truss is the gift that keeps on giving

Unfortunately for the Tories Liz Truss is the gift that keeps on giving

Almost a year after her disastrous mini-budget, ex-PM says she was right and the economy and everyone else was wrong

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5 days ago
Liz Truss is no fiscal hawk

Liz Truss is no fiscal hawk

Liz Truss gave a speech to the Institute for Government on Monday, claiming that she did actually have plans to cut public spending.

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5 days ago
Liz Truss denies crashing economy and attacks media and Bank ‘groupthink’

Liz Truss denies crashing economy and attacks media and Bank ‘groupthink’

Former PM says she faced political landscape inherently opposed to low taxes and small state

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5 days ago
Shameless Liz Truss twice refuses to say sorry whining she had 'responsibilities but no power'

Shameless Liz Truss twice refuses to say sorry whining she had 'responsibilities but no power'

Almost a year on from the disastrous mini-budget, the 49-day PM claimed interest rates would have risen even without her intervention and sidestepped questions [...]

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5 days ago
Liz Truss takes brutal swipe at BBC in Brexit rallying cry after Mark Carney's smug attack

Liz Truss takes brutal swipe at BBC in Brexit rallying cry after Mark Carney's smug attack

The former PM made a splash return this morning with a number of no-holds-barred attacks on everyone from the Bank of England to her fellow Tory MPs, to financ [...]

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5 days ago
Watch live: Liz Truss urges government to cut taxes one year on from disastrous mini-budget

Watch live: Liz Truss urges government to cut taxes one year on from disastrous mini-budget

Watch live as Liz Truss makes a speech on the economy on Monday (18 September), urging the government to cut taxes in a speech one year after her disastrous mi [...]

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5 days ago
Liz Truss urges Rishi Sunak to cut taxes, slash benefits and raise the retirement age as she defends record in No10

Liz Truss urges Rishi Sunak to cut taxes, slash benefits and raise the retirement age as she defends record in No10

Liz Truss will encourage the government to cut taxes, trim benefits spending and raise the retirement age on Monday.

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lbc.co.uk
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6 days ago
Good game? Even Brucie would struggle to make this gripping! CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend's TV

Good game? Even Brucie would struggle to make this gripping! CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend's TV

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: This time last year, Liz Truss was Prime Minister. So much has happened since, the finalists on Alan Carr's Picture Slam (BBC1) didn't rec [...]

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6 days ago
Truss calls for Goverment to slash taxes one year after 'disastrous' mini budget

Truss calls for Goverment to slash taxes one year after 'disastrous' mini budget

Liz Truss will renew calls for the Government to slash taxes, shrink welfare spending and raise the retirement age in a speech one year on from her disastrous [...]

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6 days ago
'A Mark Of Shame': Labour Demand Rishi Sunak Blocks Liz Truss' Resignation Honours

'A Mark Of Shame': Labour Demand Rishi Sunak Blocks Liz Truss' Resignation Honours

The former prime minister is thought to have nominated up to 14 allies for a gong.

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6 days ago
Liz Truss to claim mini budget would have saved Britain £35b as she defends disastrous time in No 10

Liz Truss to claim mini budget would have saved Britain £35b as she defends disastrous time in No 10

Liz Truss will deliver a speech claiming that her government would have saved tens of billions of pounds, likely deepening inter-party Conservative divisions.

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lbc.co.uk
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7 days ago
Are bizarre claims falsely linking Liz Truss to the ousted BP chief a crude bid to halt her comeback?

Are bizarre claims falsely linking Liz Truss to the ousted BP chief a crude bid to halt her comeback?

In the Commons, senior Ministers were claiming, with apparent seriousness, that happily married Liz Truss was one of the Bernard Looney's 'undeclared relations [...]

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7 days ago

Interest rates UK: Home owners on tracker mortgages set to pay £324 more a month than when Liz Truss launched mini-Budget

Home owners on tracker mortgages can expect to be paying an average of £324 more a month on their loan than a year ago if, as expected, the Bank of England (Bo [...]

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scotsman.com
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12 days ago

Liz Truss urges government to classify China a ‘threat’ amid spying allegations

Liz Truss has urged the government to classify China as a “threat” amid the unfolding news that a former parliamentary researcher has been arrested under the O [...]

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12 days ago
Liz Truss calls for ban on schools letting pupils 'socially transition' by changing name and pronouns after Rishi Sunak backs away from trying to pas[...]

Liz Truss calls for ban on schools letting pupils 'socially transition' by changing name and pronouns after Rishi Sunak backs away from trying to pas[...]

The former PM warned that allowing pupils to use different names, pronouns and uniforms while learning was 'not a neutral act'.

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13 days ago
Liz Truss Is Writing A Book About How To 'Save The West' And People Have Thoughts

Liz Truss Is Writing A Book About How To 'Save The West' And People Have Thoughts

"Surely this book deal should have gone to the lettuce?"

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14 days ago
Liz Truss to offer lessons from premiership in book

Liz Truss to offer lessons from premiership in book

The book, due out in April, is titled Ten Years to Save the West.

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15 days ago
Hunt considers autumn benefit cut to free up pre-election tax giveaway

Hunt considers autumn benefit cut to free up pre-election tax giveaway

Unlinking benefits rise from September inflation rate could save Treasury billions, though similar idea led to backlash for Liz Truss

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15 days ago

Queen Elizabeth II and all her Prime Ministers from 1952 - from Winston Churchill to Liz Truss

Here is a look back at all the heads of government who served Queen Elizabeth II during her 70-year reign from 1952.

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scotsman.com
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16 days ago
Liz Truss reveals what late Queen told her in last meeting before she died

Liz Truss reveals what late Queen told her in last meeting before she died

Then-prime minister had been summoned to Balmoral in Scotland 48 hours before her death

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16 days ago
Ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss reveals Queen was 'mentally alert' in their last meeting together

Ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss reveals Queen was 'mentally alert' in their last meeting together

Liz Truss shed light on their final historic meeting (pictured) at Balmoral Castle on September 6, 2022, explaining that the Queen was 'determined to do her du [...]

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17 days ago
Liz Truss took on the economic establishment. It’s still failing Britain today

Liz Truss took on the economic establishment. It’s still failing Britain today

Public sector economists failed to predict soaring inflation and the collapse in productivity

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17 days ago
Builder Barratt reduced workforce by hundreds after Liz Truss’s premiership

Builder Barratt reduced workforce by hundreds after Liz Truss’s premiership

The business stopped hiring due to the downturn in the market which followed the mini budget.

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18 days ago
Liz Truss MP - Latest news and updates on the Prime Minister - Mirror Online

Liz Truss MP - Latest news and updates on the Prime Minister - Mirror Online

Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister of the UK and Leader of the Conservative Party on October 20, 2022, becoming the country's shortest-serving PM.

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mirror.co.uk
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11 hours ago
Liz Truss & Kwasi Kwarteng's budget disaster one year on - and they're STILL not sorry

Liz Truss & Kwasi Kwarteng's budget disaster one year on - and they're STILL not sorry

It's one year since Kwasi Kwarteng stood up in the Commons and unleashed an economic wrecking ball that's still causing misery for millions - we look at what h [...]

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mirror.co.uk
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1 day ago
Liz Truss dubbed PM ‘Russi Sunak’ in row over Russian invasion, book claims

Liz Truss dubbed PM ‘Russi Sunak’ in row over Russian invasion, book claims

Liz Truss once branded her successor as Prime Minister “Russi Sunak” in a row over the government’s response to the invasion of Ukraine, according to a new boo [...]

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1 day ago

Rishi Sunak’s retreat from true pragmatism may herald return of Liz Truss-style economics – Scotsman comment

Prime Minister must resist growing calls for tax cuts if the country cannot afford them

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scotsman.com
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2 days ago
Bolton cited as ex-PM Liz Truss's record criticised

Bolton cited as ex-PM Liz Truss's record criticised

Jonathan Ashworth cited the town as an example as he called on the current Prime Minister to block Ms Truss's Resignation Honours in an interview on…

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3 days ago
Liz Truss rakes in £250k in speaking fees since leaving office earning more in one speech than most Brits do in a year

Liz Truss rakes in £250k in speaking fees since leaving office earning more in one speech than most Brits do in a year

Liz Truss has raked in a quarter of a million pounds in just a year since leaving office, LBC can reveal.

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lbc.co.uk
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4 days ago
Outrage as Liz Truss trousers £23,000 of ex-PM allowance in just five months

Outrage as Liz Truss trousers £23,000 of ex-PM allowance in just five months

Figures released by the Cabinet Office show she claimed back £23,310 from her post-Prime Ministerial allowance between October 2022 and March 2023

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mirror.co.uk
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4 days ago
What Liz Truss’ speech tells us about the future of the Conservative Party

What Liz Truss’ speech tells us about the future of the Conservative Party

How are you commemorating the rolling anniversaries of Liz Truss’ ill-fated 49-day premiership? On this pressing matter, there are a few schools of thought.&nb [...]

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5 days ago
Andrew Marr: Even after mortgage spikes and market meltdowns, could there really be a way back for Liz Truss?

Andrew Marr: Even after mortgage spikes and market meltdowns, could there really be a way back for Liz Truss?

A lack of economic growth since Liz Truss left office means her return to the top of the Tory party is no longer out of the question, Andrew Marr has said.

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lbc.co.uk
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5 days ago
10 grenades lobbed by failed PM Liz Truss in bizarre 'pig slaughter' speech

10 grenades lobbed by failed PM Liz Truss in bizarre 'pig slaughter' speech

The disaster Prime Minister came out swinging in a brazen speech in which she hit out at civil servants, the Bank of England, Joe Biden, her Tory colleagues, t [...]

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mirror.co.uk
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5 days ago

Liz Truss defends her record as prime minister in think tank speech

Short-lived prime minister Liz Truss is bullish about her record in Number 10 - despite the economic crisis it sparked

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scotsman.com
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5 days ago
Liz Truss hits out at economists and civil servants as she defends mini-budget

Liz Truss hits out at economists and civil servants as she defends mini-budget

The former prime minister declined to express regret about the consequences of her doomed package of £45 billion of tax cuts last year.

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5 days ago
Liz Truss hit out economists and civil servants as she defends mini-budget

Liz Truss hit out economists and civil servants as she defends mini-budget

The former prime minister declined to express regret about the consequences of her doomed package of £45 billion of tax cuts last year.

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5 days ago
'I tried to rear and slaughter the pig on market day': Liz Truss admits she 'rushed' disastrous mini-budget

'I tried to rear and slaughter the pig on market day': Liz Truss admits she 'rushed' disastrous mini-budget

Liz Truss has claimed she was forced to change her mini-budget policy because the markets threatened to go into "meltdown".

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lbc.co.uk
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5 days ago
Labour calls for Liz Truss’s resignation honours list to be blocked as ex-PM gives speech defending mini-budget – UK politics live

Labour calls for Liz Truss’s resignation honours list to be blocked as ex-PM gives speech defending mini-budget – UK politics live

Truss will defend her record as PM and say what she thinks the UK must do to promote growth

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5 days ago
Rishi Sunak’s new 2030 petrol and diesel car ban under fire as Liz Truss demands delay

Rishi Sunak’s new 2030 petrol and diesel car ban under fire as Liz Truss demands delay

Rishi Sunak has been urged by many to delay the Government's 2030 petrol and diesel car ban plan.

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6 days ago
Liz Truss says she 'slaughtered pig' too fast as she demands pension age rises

Liz Truss says she 'slaughtered pig' too fast as she demands pension age rises

The 49-day disaster PM will warn the UK is in a "precarious position" at risk of a "downward spiral" as she demands extreme measures from No10 and defends her [...]

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mirror.co.uk
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6 days ago

Liz Truss to argue UK economic growth would be stronger in 2030 if her policies were still in place

A year since her mini-Budget, the former prime minister will deliver a vehement defence of the tax-slashing policies she unveiled in office

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6 days ago
Liz Truss to defend her time in office with swipe at ‘dinner party’ critics

Liz Truss to defend her time in office with swipe at ‘dinner party’ critics

Liz Truss is due to give an impassioned defence of her economic legacy on Monday, marking the upcoming anniversary of her mini-budget and rebuking critics on

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6 days ago
Mark Carney Has Delivered A Stunning Takedown Of Brexit And Liz Truss

Mark Carney Has Delivered A Stunning Takedown Of Brexit And Liz Truss

The former Bank of England governor accused the ex-PM of creating "Argentina on the Channel" with her disastrous mini-Budget.

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7 days ago
LORD ASHCROFT: Last summer's battle for No10 wasn't just a clash of ideas but for one candidate it was much more than that... Frosty Liz Truss didn't[...]

LORD ASHCROFT: Last summer's battle for No10 wasn't just a clash of ideas but for one candidate it was much more than that... Frosty Liz Truss didn't[...]

Here, in our second extract from LORD ASHCROFT's revealing book charting the political career of Rishi, he shows just how bumpy Sunak's path was from No 11 Dow [...]

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9 days ago

Rishi Sunak is ignoring the true lesson of the Liz Truss implosion

If Tories think she offers a cautionary tale against tax cuts, they’re looking at a decade in the wilderness

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12 days ago
Rishi Sunak’s popularity falls below Boris Johnson's in latest dire poll

Rishi Sunak’s popularity falls below Boris Johnson's in latest dire poll

Tory MPs kicked out both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss because they were concerned they were too unpopular to win an election. Now the same fate is befalling Ris [...]

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12 days ago

After Tories’ turbulent year, we need new leaders with Queen Elizabeth's work ethic – Christine Jardine

The country is still suffering the effects of Liz Truss’s short but disastrous spell as Prime Minister

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scotsman.com
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13 days ago
Liz Truss, Prime Minister for 49 days, to 'share lessons' of time in Government in new book

Liz Truss, Prime Minister for 49 days, to 'share lessons' of time in Government in new book

'Ten Years to Save the West' will be out next April

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14 days ago
Liz Truss will reveal inside story of her 49-day premiership in new book - including her last meeting with the Queen just hours before monarch died

Liz Truss will reveal inside story of her 49-day premiership in new book - including her last meeting with the Queen just hours before monarch died

Liz Truss is to reveal the inside story of her ill-fated premiership in a book which will signal that her political ambitions remain undimmed.

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15 days ago
Ex-chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng feels ‘let down’ by Liz Truss and says they haven’t spoken about sacking

Ex-chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng feels ‘let down’ by Liz Truss and says they haven’t spoken about sacking

Former Chancellor says he felt ‘this feeling of emptiness’ after being fired over former PM’s mini budget ‘capitulation’

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15 days ago
Queen's death one year on: how I saw news of her death unfold at Westminster

Queen's death one year on: how I saw news of her death unfold at Westminster

MPs were gathered in the Commons to hear Liz Truss make a major announcement on energy bills - but it was quickly overshadowed by the news from Balmoral as Her [...]

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mirror.co.uk
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16 days ago
Liz Truss reveals details of final meeting with Queen days before her death

Liz Truss reveals details of final meeting with Queen days before her death

The late Queen met with former British Prime Minister, Liz Truss just two days before her death last September.

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16 days ago
A lighthearted look back at the disastrous Liz Truss reign

A lighthearted look back at the disastrous Liz Truss reign

Alice Levine and Matt Forde remember seven chaotic weeks in Westminster in the new season of British Scandal. Plus: five of the best musicals podcasts

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17 days ago
Heartbreaking pic of Queen Elizabeth on this day last year as she prepared for final duty

Heartbreaking pic of Queen Elizabeth on this day last year as she prepared for final duty

Queen Elizabeth II welcomed Liz Truss at Balmoral on this day last year, in one of her final acts as monarch before her death on September 8.

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17 days ago
Liz Truss's 49 days of chaos one year after disaster Prime Minister took office

Liz Truss's 49 days of chaos one year after disaster Prime Minister took office

Liz Truss's time at the top may have been short, but there was no shortage of drama during the shortest-serving PM's 49 days of chaos and calamity in Downing S [...]

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mirror.co.uk
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18 days ago
Liz Truss's £4,000 'Jenga' lectern still hasn't found new home a year after she became PM

Liz Truss's £4,000 'Jenga' lectern still hasn't found new home a year after she became PM

The higgledy-piggledy pile of bricks is still languishing in Downing Street despite the Government hoping it would be used by another Whitehall department or a [...]

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mirror.co.uk
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20 hours ago

Scottish nationalists and Truss-style Tories can see that the UK is fundamentally broken – Stewart McDonald

Liz Truss’s crackpot economic plan did more harm than good but she is right about the need for change

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scotsman.com
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1 day ago
Exclusive: Liz Truss branded PM 'Russi Sunak' in clash with then Chancellor over slow pace of financial action against Vladimir Putin after Russia in[...]

Exclusive: Liz Truss branded PM 'Russi Sunak' in clash with then Chancellor over slow pace of financial action against Vladimir Putin after Russia in[...]

The political rivals angrily confronted each other over Britain's response to the war.

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2 days ago
'Bank of England got it wrong' says Robert Peston as he defends 'bonkers' Liz Truss

'Bank of England got it wrong' says Robert Peston as he defends 'bonkers' Liz Truss

As Liz Truss urges Rishi Sunak to follow her lead, the broadcaster highlighted a key way in which the former PM's economic disaster had not entirely been her f [...]

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3 days ago
Liz Truss’s comeback defies all belief – until you understand the rotten forces making it possible

Liz Truss’s comeback defies all belief – until you understand the rotten forces making it possible

A weak PM, a dying government, a radicalised rightwing press: these are the foundations of Truss’s unlikely relaunch, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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4 days ago
Rishi Sunak 'set to delay petrol and diesel ban' 24 hours after Liz Truss demand

Rishi Sunak 'set to delay petrol and diesel ban' 24 hours after Liz Truss demand

The flip-flopping Prime Minister is tipped to announce that a ban on new petrol and diesel cars will be pushed back five years to 2030

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mirror.co.uk
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4 days ago

Liz Truss has been claiming from fund for ex-prime ministers despite only 49 days in office

 Liz Truss has been claiming from fund for ex-prime ministers despite only 49 days in office.

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4 days ago
'Incompetent clown': Economics Professor lambasts Liz Truss' Institute for Government speech

'Incompetent clown': Economics Professor lambasts Liz Truss' Institute for Government speech

Liz Truss has been branded 'disingenuous' for not taking responsibility for the economic 'disaster' surrounding her tenure as Prime Minister.

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lbc.co.uk
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5 days ago
'Why won't Labour commit to ending it!': Sangita Myska grills Labour MP over House of Lords reform

'Why won't Labour commit to ending it!': Sangita Myska grills Labour MP over House of Lords reform

In an open letter to the Prime Minister, Labour's Shadow Paymaster General called for Liz Truss's honours list to be blocked.

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lbc.co.uk
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5 days ago

Liz Truss mini-Budget: Former prime minister hits out at economists and says she wishes things turned out 'differently'

Liz Truss has hit out at economists and supposed "institutional bureaucracy" as she defended her mini-budget a year on.

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scotsman.com
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5 days ago
Truss turns on her critics in Q&A session

Truss turns on her critics in Q&A session

She’s back! One year on from the mini-Budget, Liz Truss arrived at the Institute for Government, flashing grins and firing off one-liners. The speech was of th [...]

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5 days ago
Liz Truss accuses 'political and economic establishment' of triggering a market 'meltdown' after her tax-cutting mini-budget and claims an 'anti-grow[...]

Liz Truss accuses 'political and economic establishment' of triggering a market 'meltdown' after her tax-cutting mini-budget and claims an 'anti-grow[...]

She defended the mini-budget that sparked economic turmoil and her resignation almost exactly a year ago, saying the 'political and economic establishment' had [...]

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5 days ago
Truss admits she went ‘too fast’ and compares her pound-crashing mini budget to slaughtering a pig

Truss admits she went ‘too fast’ and compares her pound-crashing mini budget to slaughtering a pig

EX-PM Liz Truss today admitted she went too fast with her pound-crashing mini budget as she compared the tax-slashing bonanza to “slaughtering a pig”. In her f [...]

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thesun.co.uk
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5 days ago
‘We can make Britain grow again’ — Liz Truss’ Institute for Government speech in full

‘We can make Britain grow again’ — Liz Truss’ Institute for Government speech in full

Former prime minister Liz Truss today made a speech to the Institute for Government on her vision for the UK economy. Here is the transcript in full: It’s grea [...]

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5 days ago
Former BoE governor suggests Brexiteers have a ‘basic misunderstanding of what drives economies’

Former BoE governor suggests Brexiteers have a ‘basic misunderstanding of what drives economies’

In a scathing attack on Liz Truss and her economic vision, former Bank of England governor Mark Carney accused the former PM of turning Britain into “Argentina [...]

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5 days ago

Labour trying to block Liz Truss honours list

Jonathan Ashworth, the Shadow Paymaster general, has written to the Prime Minister urging him to stop his predecessor’s plans

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6 days ago
Liz Truss to take major swipe at Tories for allowing Left to frame debate on economy & push woke agenda

Liz Truss to take major swipe at Tories for allowing Left to frame debate on economy & push woke agenda

EX-PM Liz Truss will take a major swipe at the Tories for allowing the Left to frame the debate on the economy and push the woke agenda.

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6 days ago
Liz Truss calls for the ban on the sale of new petrol cars by 2030 to be delayed and says the tourist tax should be axed

Liz Truss calls for the ban on the sale of new petrol cars by 2030 to be delayed and says the tourist tax should be axed

Former prime minister Liz Truss will make the calls in a speech as part of a wider plea for tax cuts to get the economy growing and ease the pain on hard-press [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss calls for the ban on the sale of new [...]
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6 days ago
I'm a Celebrity 2023 rumoured line-up including Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Josie Gibson and more

I'm a Celebrity 2023 rumoured line-up including Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Josie Gibson and more

I'm a Celebrity is back this autumn with a new raft of celebrities for the jungle, but who's been named as possible campmates for the 2023 series

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7 days ago
Liz Truss mini-budget nearly included flat 20p rate of income tax

Liz Truss mini-budget nearly included flat 20p rate of income tax

A “flat tax” that would have seen all workers pay just 20 per cent of their income to the Treasury was considered for Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget. In th [...]

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7 days ago
Britain 'still paying price' of Liz Truss' budget a year on amid house price slump

Britain 'still paying price' of Liz Truss' budget a year on amid house price slump

A year on from the former PM’s ‘mini budget’, Pat McFadden, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, warned Rishi Sunak “might want to forget all about it - but [...]

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10 days ago
The Trussites are plotting their comeback

The Trussites are plotting their comeback

A year after Liz Truss’s chaotic premiership, her inner circle believe their time will come again.

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12 days ago
Liz Truss warns of 'Chinese infiltration at Westminster' after suspected spy arrest

Liz Truss warns of 'Chinese infiltration at Westminster' after suspected spy arrest

The former Prime Minister made a rare intervention in Parliament during an emergency debate on the alleged national security scandal gripping Westminster

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mirror.co.uk
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13 days ago
Wet Lettuce Liz Truss threatening most unwanted political comeback of all time

Wet Lettuce Liz Truss threatening most unwanted political comeback of all time

The former Prime Minister who failed to outlast the Daily Star lettuce could be set for a sensational comeback into politics as she prepares to release a very [...]

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13 days ago
Liz Truss writing book on disastrous 49 days at No10 blaming others for failure

Liz Truss writing book on disastrous 49 days at No10 blaming others for failure

Former PM Liz Truss is penning a loftily-titled book called Ten Years To Save the West, in which she's expected to lash out at the 'global left' and the 'Greta [...]

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mirror.co.uk
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15 days ago
Who really runs Britain? As Liz Truss returns to the political fray ANDREW PIERCE reveals the inside story of how she was driven out as Prime Ministe[...]

Who really runs Britain? As Liz Truss returns to the political fray ANDREW PIERCE reveals the inside story of how she was driven out as Prime Ministe[...]

ANDREW PIERCE: Just over a month into her premiership and under fire on multiple fronts, Liz Truss (pictured) returned to her desk in 10 Downing Street to find [...]

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15 days ago
Queen's poignant remark to former Prime Minister Liz Truss during her final audience

Queen's poignant remark to former Prime Minister Liz Truss during her final audience

Queen Elizabeth II's final audience saw her meet with former Prime Minister Liz Truss at Balmoral, who has recalled how the monarch appeared 'frail' but 'menta [...]

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mirror.co.uk
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15 days ago
Liz Truss recalls moment she was told the Queen had died - just days after her first meeting as Prime Minister

Liz Truss recalls moment she was told the Queen had died - just days after her first meeting as Prime Minister

Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral Castle on September 8 2022

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16 days ago
Late Queen told Liz Truss they would 'meet again soon' in final engagement

Late Queen told Liz Truss they would 'meet again soon' in final engagement

The late Queen had welcomed Ms Truss to her home in the Scottish Highlands on September 6, 2022, just two days before she died

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17 days ago
Liz Truss's £4,000 'Jenga' lectern tracked down as it finally gets new home

Liz Truss's £4,000 'Jenga' lectern tracked down as it finally gets new home

The higgledy-piggledy pile of bricks, specially made for her at a cost of £4,175 to taxpayers, had been left languishing in Downing Street after she only laste [...]

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mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
17 days ago
12 months on, Labour has no update on investigation into suspended MP Nick Brown

12 months on, Labour has no update on investigation into suspended MP Nick Brown

EXCLUSIVE: While this week may be the one year anniversary of Liz Truss and the Queen's death, it's also 12 months since a senior Labour MP was suspended follo [...]

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Timestamp:
18 days ago

Conservatives

Liz Truss: one year on

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4 hours ago
Cash Liz Truss can claim as ex-PM could buy 45,000 school meals - or 164,000 lettuces

Cash Liz Truss can claim as ex-PM could buy 45,000 school meals - or 164,000 lettuces

Former PMs are allowed to claim up to £115,000 from the public purse for “administrative costs” arising from their position

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mirror.co.uk
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20 hours ago

Scottish nationalists and Truss-style Tories can see that the UK is fundamentally broken – Stewart McDonald

Liz Truss’s crackpot economic plan did more harm than good but she is right about the need for change

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scotsman.com
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1 day ago
Liz Truss dubbed PM ‘Russi Sunak’ in row over Russian invasion, book claims

Liz Truss dubbed PM ‘Russi Sunak’ in row over Russian invasion, book claims

Liz Truss once branded her successor as Prime Minister “Russi Sunak” in a row over the government’s response to the invasion of Ukraine, according to a new boo [...]

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1 day ago
‘Beggars belief!’ Liz Truss sparks war of words with Labour over blob love-in

‘Beggars belief!’ Liz Truss sparks war of words with Labour over blob love-in

The former PM has slammed Labour's attacks on her this morning, including a new policy to hand yet more powers to the unaccountable blob.

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2 days ago
'Bank of England got it wrong' says Robert Peston as he defends 'bonkers' Liz Truss

'Bank of England got it wrong' says Robert Peston as he defends 'bonkers' Liz Truss

As Liz Truss urges Rishi Sunak to follow her lead, the broadcaster highlighted a key way in which the former PM's economic disaster had not entirely been her f [...]

Read full article: 'Bank of England got it wrong' says Robert Pest [...]
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2 days ago
Bolton cited as ex-PM Liz Truss's record criticised

Bolton cited as ex-PM Liz Truss's record criticised

Jonathan Ashworth cited the town as an example as he called on the current Prime Minister to block Ms Truss's Resignation Honours in an interview on…

Read full article: Bolton cited as ex-PM Liz Truss's record critic [...]
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3 days ago
Liz Truss has been claiming from £115,000 fund for ex-PMs despite only 49 days in office

Liz Truss has been claiming from £115,000 fund for ex-PMs despite only 49 days in office

Rishi Sunak urged to ‘do right thing’ and stop ex-PM from claiming taxpayers’ cash

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4 days ago
Rishi Sunak 'set to delay petrol and diesel ban' 24 hours after Liz Truss demand

Rishi Sunak 'set to delay petrol and diesel ban' 24 hours after Liz Truss demand

The flip-flopping Prime Minister is tipped to announce that a ban on new petrol and diesel cars will be pushed back five years to 2030

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mirror.co.uk
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4 days ago
Outrage as Liz Truss trousers £23,000 of ex-PM allowance in just five months

Outrage as Liz Truss trousers £23,000 of ex-PM allowance in just five months

Figures released by the Cabinet Office show she claimed back £23,310 from her post-Prime Ministerial allowance between October 2022 and March 2023

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mirror.co.uk
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4 days ago
Liz Truss claims thousands from fund for ex-PMs despite 49 day tenure

Liz Truss claims thousands from fund for ex-PMs despite 49 day tenure

Liz Truss has been claiming from the £115,000-a-year public fund awarded to former prime ministers despite only serving for 49 days.

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4 days ago
'Incompetent clown': Economics Professor lambasts Liz Truss' Institute for Government speech

'Incompetent clown': Economics Professor lambasts Liz Truss' Institute for Government speech

Liz Truss has been branded 'disingenuous' for not taking responsibility for the economic 'disaster' surrounding her tenure as Prime Minister.

Read full article: 'Incompetent clown': Economics Professor lambas [...]
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lbc.co.uk
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5 days ago
Andrew Marr: Even after mortgage spikes and market meltdowns, could there really be a way back for Liz Truss?

Andrew Marr: Even after mortgage spikes and market meltdowns, could there really be a way back for Liz Truss?

A lack of economic growth since Liz Truss left office means her return to the top of the Tory party is no longer out of the question, Andrew Marr has said.

Read full article: Andrew Marr: Even after mortgage spikes and mar [...]
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lbc.co.uk
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5 days ago
Unfortunately for the Tories Liz Truss is the gift that keeps on giving

Unfortunately for the Tories Liz Truss is the gift that keeps on giving

Almost a year after her disastrous mini-budget, ex-PM says she was right and the economy and everyone else was wrong

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5 days ago

Liz Truss mini-Budget: Former prime minister hits out at economists and says she wishes things turned out 'differently'

Liz Truss has hit out at economists and supposed "institutional bureaucracy" as she defended her mini-budget a year on.

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scotsman.com
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5 days ago

Liz Truss defends her record as prime minister in think tank speech

Short-lived prime minister Liz Truss is bullish about her record in Number 10 - despite the economic crisis it sparked

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scotsman.com
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5 days ago
Liz Truss denies crashing economy and attacks media and Bank ‘groupthink’

Liz Truss denies crashing economy and attacks media and Bank ‘groupthink’

Former PM says she faced political landscape inherently opposed to low taxes and small state

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5 days ago
Liz Truss accuses 'political and economic establishment' of triggering a market 'meltdown' after her tax-cutting mini-budget and claims an 'anti-grow[...]

Liz Truss accuses 'political and economic establishment' of triggering a market 'meltdown' after her tax-cutting mini-budget and claims an 'anti-grow[...]

She defended the mini-budget that sparked economic turmoil and her resignation almost exactly a year ago, saying the 'political and economic establishment' had [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss accuses 'political and economic estab [...]
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5 days ago
Liz Truss hit out economists and civil servants as she defends mini-budget

Liz Truss hit out economists and civil servants as she defends mini-budget

The former prime minister declined to express regret about the consequences of her doomed package of £45 billion of tax cuts last year.

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5 days ago
Liz Truss takes brutal swipe at BBC in Brexit rallying cry after Mark Carney's smug attack

Liz Truss takes brutal swipe at BBC in Brexit rallying cry after Mark Carney's smug attack

The former PM made a splash return this morning with a number of no-holds-barred attacks on everyone from the Bank of England to her fellow Tory MPs, to financ [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss takes brutal swipe at BBC in Brexit r [...]
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5 days ago
‘We can make Britain grow again’ — Liz Truss’ Institute for Government speech in full

‘We can make Britain grow again’ — Liz Truss’ Institute for Government speech in full

Former prime minister Liz Truss today made a speech to the Institute for Government on her vision for the UK economy. Here is the transcript in full: It’s grea [...]

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Timestamp:
5 days ago
Labour calls for Liz Truss’s resignation honours list to be blocked as ex-PM gives speech defending mini-budget – UK politics live

Labour calls for Liz Truss’s resignation honours list to be blocked as ex-PM gives speech defending mini-budget – UK politics live

Truss will defend her record as PM and say what she thinks the UK must do to promote growth

Read full article: Labour calls for Liz Truss’s resignation honour [...]
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5 days ago
Liz Truss urges Rishi Sunak to cut taxes, slash benefits and raise the retirement age as she defends record in No10

Liz Truss urges Rishi Sunak to cut taxes, slash benefits and raise the retirement age as she defends record in No10

Liz Truss will encourage the government to cut taxes, trim benefits spending and raise the retirement age on Monday.

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lbc.co.uk
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5 days ago

Labour trying to block Liz Truss honours list

Jonathan Ashworth, the Shadow Paymaster general, has written to the Prime Minister urging him to stop his predecessor’s plans

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6 days ago
Liz Truss says she 'slaughtered pig' too fast as she demands pension age rises

Liz Truss says she 'slaughtered pig' too fast as she demands pension age rises

The 49-day disaster PM will warn the UK is in a "precarious position" at risk of a "downward spiral" as she demands extreme measures from No10 and defends her [...]

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mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
6 days ago
Truss calls for Goverment to slash taxes one year after 'disastrous' mini budget

Truss calls for Goverment to slash taxes one year after 'disastrous' mini budget

Liz Truss will renew calls for the Government to slash taxes, shrink welfare spending and raise the retirement age in a speech one year on from her disastrous [...]

Read full article: Truss calls for Goverment to slash taxes one ye [...]
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6 days ago
Liz Truss calls for the ban on the sale of new petrol cars by 2030 to be delayed and says the tourist tax should be axed

Liz Truss calls for the ban on the sale of new petrol cars by 2030 to be delayed and says the tourist tax should be axed

Former prime minister Liz Truss will make the calls in a speech as part of a wider plea for tax cuts to get the economy growing and ease the pain on hard-press [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss calls for the ban on the sale of new [...]
Timestamp:
6 days ago
Liz Truss to defend her time in office with swipe at ‘dinner party’ critics

Liz Truss to defend her time in office with swipe at ‘dinner party’ critics

Liz Truss is due to give an impassioned defence of her economic legacy on Monday, marking the upcoming anniversary of her mini-budget and rebuking critics on

Read full article: Liz Truss to defend her time in office with swi [...]
Timestamp:
6 days ago
Liz Truss to claim mini budget would have saved Britain £35b as she defends disastrous time in No 10

Liz Truss to claim mini budget would have saved Britain £35b as she defends disastrous time in No 10

Liz Truss will deliver a speech claiming that her government would have saved tens of billions of pounds, likely deepening inter-party Conservative divisions.

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lbc.co.uk
Timestamp:
7 days ago
Liz Truss mini-budget nearly included flat 20p rate of income tax

Liz Truss mini-budget nearly included flat 20p rate of income tax

A “flat tax” that would have seen all workers pay just 20 per cent of their income to the Treasury was considered for Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget. In th [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss mini-budget nearly included flat 20p [...]
Timestamp:
7 days ago
LORD ASHCROFT: Last summer's battle for No10 wasn't just a clash of ideas but for one candidate it was much more than that... Frosty Liz Truss didn't[...]

LORD ASHCROFT: Last summer's battle for No10 wasn't just a clash of ideas but for one candidate it was much more than that... Frosty Liz Truss didn't[...]

Here, in our second extract from LORD ASHCROFT's revealing book charting the political career of Rishi, he shows just how bumpy Sunak's path was from No 11 Dow [...]

Read full article: LORD ASHCROFT: Last summer's battle for No10 wa [...]
Timestamp:
7 days ago

Interest rates UK: Home owners on tracker mortgages set to pay £324 more a month than when Liz Truss launched mini-Budget

Home owners on tracker mortgages can expect to be paying an average of £324 more a month on their loan than a year ago if, as expected, the Bank of England (Bo [...]

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scotsman.com
Timestamp:
10 days ago
The Trussites are plotting their comeback

The Trussites are plotting their comeback

A year after Liz Truss’s chaotic premiership, her inner circle believe their time will come again.

Read full article: The Trussites are plotting their comeback
Timestamp:
12 days ago
Rishi Sunak’s popularity falls below Boris Johnson's in latest dire poll

Rishi Sunak’s popularity falls below Boris Johnson's in latest dire poll

Tory MPs kicked out both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss because they were concerned they were too unpopular to win an election. Now the same fate is befalling Ris [...]

Read full article: Rishi Sunak’s popularity falls below Boris John [...]
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12 days ago
Liz Truss calls for ban on schools letting pupils 'socially transition' by changing name and pronouns after Rishi Sunak backs away from trying to pas[...]

Liz Truss calls for ban on schools letting pupils 'socially transition' by changing name and pronouns after Rishi Sunak backs away from trying to pas[...]

The former PM warned that allowing pupils to use different names, pronouns and uniforms while learning was 'not a neutral act'.

Read full article: Liz Truss calls for ban on schools letting pupi [...]
Timestamp:
13 days ago
Wet Lettuce Liz Truss threatening most unwanted political comeback of all time

Wet Lettuce Liz Truss threatening most unwanted political comeback of all time

The former Prime Minister who failed to outlast the Daily Star lettuce could be set for a sensational comeback into politics as she prepares to release a very [...]

Read full article: Wet Lettuce Liz Truss threatening most unwanted [...]
Timestamp:
13 days ago
Liz Truss, Prime Minister for 49 days, to 'share lessons' of time in Government in new book

Liz Truss, Prime Minister for 49 days, to 'share lessons' of time in Government in new book

'Ten Years to Save the West' will be out next April

Read full article: Liz Truss, Prime Minister for 49 days, to 'shar [...]
Timestamp:
14 days ago
Liz Truss to offer lessons from premiership in book

Liz Truss to offer lessons from premiership in book

The book, due out in April, is titled Ten Years to Save the West.

Read full article: Liz Truss to offer lessons from premiership in [...]
Timestamp:
15 days ago
Who really runs Britain? As Liz Truss returns to the political fray ANDREW PIERCE reveals the inside story of how she was driven out as Prime Ministe[...]

Who really runs Britain? As Liz Truss returns to the political fray ANDREW PIERCE reveals the inside story of how she was driven out as Prime Ministe[...]

ANDREW PIERCE: Just over a month into her premiership and under fire on multiple fronts, Liz Truss (pictured) returned to her desk in 10 Downing Street to find [...]

Read full article: Who really runs Britain? As Liz Truss returns t [...]
Timestamp:
15 days ago
Ex-chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng feels ‘let down’ by Liz Truss and says they haven’t spoken about sacking

Ex-chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng feels ‘let down’ by Liz Truss and says they haven’t spoken about sacking

Former Chancellor says he felt ‘this feeling of emptiness’ after being fired over former PM’s mini budget ‘capitulation’

Read full article: Ex-chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng feels ‘let down’ b [...]
Timestamp:
15 days ago

Queen Elizabeth II and all her Prime Ministers from 1952 - from Winston Churchill to Liz Truss

Here is a look back at all the heads of government who served Queen Elizabeth II during her 70-year reign from 1952.

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scotsman.com
Timestamp:
15 days ago
Liz Truss recalls moment she was told the Queen had died - just days after her first meeting as Prime Minister

Liz Truss recalls moment she was told the Queen had died - just days after her first meeting as Prime Minister

Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral Castle on September 8 2022

Read full article: Liz Truss recalls moment she was told the Queen [...]
Timestamp:
16 days ago
Liz Truss reveals details of final meeting with Queen days before her death

Liz Truss reveals details of final meeting with Queen days before her death

The late Queen met with former British Prime Minister, Liz Truss just two days before her death last September.

Read full article: Liz Truss reveals details of final meeting with [...]
Timestamp:
16 days ago
Ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss reveals Queen was 'mentally alert' in their last meeting together

Ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss reveals Queen was 'mentally alert' in their last meeting together

Liz Truss shed light on their final historic meeting (pictured) at Balmoral Castle on September 6, 2022, explaining that the Queen was 'determined to do her du [...]

Read full article: Ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss reveals Queen was ' [...]
Timestamp:
17 days ago
Liz Truss's £4,000 'Jenga' lectern tracked down as it finally gets new home

Liz Truss's £4,000 'Jenga' lectern tracked down as it finally gets new home

The higgledy-piggledy pile of bricks, specially made for her at a cost of £4,175 to taxpayers, had been left languishing in Downing Street after she only laste [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss's £4,000 'Jenga' lectern tracked down [...]
Source:
mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
17 days ago
Heartbreaking pic of Queen Elizabeth on this day last year as she prepared for final duty

Heartbreaking pic of Queen Elizabeth on this day last year as she prepared for final duty

Queen Elizabeth II welcomed Liz Truss at Balmoral on this day last year, in one of her final acts as monarch before her death on September 8.

Read full article: Heartbreaking pic of Queen Elizabeth on this da [...]
Timestamp:
17 days ago
Builder Barratt reduced workforce by hundreds after Liz Truss’s premiership

Builder Barratt reduced workforce by hundreds after Liz Truss’s premiership

The business stopped hiring due to the downturn in the market which followed the mini budget.

Read full article: Builder Barratt reduced workforce by hundreds a [...]
Timestamp:
18 days ago

Conservatives

Liz Truss: one year on

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Timestamp:
18 days ago
Liz Truss's £4,000 'Jenga' lectern still hasn't found new home a year after she became PM

Liz Truss's £4,000 'Jenga' lectern still hasn't found new home a year after she became PM

The higgledy-piggledy pile of bricks is still languishing in Downing Street despite the Government hoping it would be used by another Whitehall department or a [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss's £4,000 'Jenga' lectern still hasn't [...]
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mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
11 hours ago
Liz Truss & Kwasi Kwarteng's budget disaster one year on - and they're STILL not sorry

Liz Truss & Kwasi Kwarteng's budget disaster one year on - and they're STILL not sorry

It's one year since Kwasi Kwarteng stood up in the Commons and unleashed an economic wrecking ball that's still causing misery for millions - we look at what h [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss & Kwasi Kwarteng's budget disaste [...]
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mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
1 day ago
Liz Truss blasts Labour's plan to hand more power to the budget watchdog, warning that it would not help get the economy growing

Liz Truss blasts Labour's plan to hand more power to the budget watchdog, warning that it would not help get the economy growing

The former PM said it 'beggared belief' that Labour thought Britain's problems could be solved by bigger government. She spoke after Starmer told of plans to s [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss blasts Labour's plan to hand more pow [...]
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1 day ago
Exclusive: Liz Truss branded PM 'Russi Sunak' in clash with then Chancellor over slow pace of financial action against Vladimir Putin after Russia in[...]

Exclusive: Liz Truss branded PM 'Russi Sunak' in clash with then Chancellor over slow pace of financial action against Vladimir Putin after Russia in[...]

The political rivals angrily confronted each other over Britain's response to the war.

Read full article: Exclusive: Liz Truss branded PM 'Russi Sunak' i [...]
Timestamp:
1 day ago

Rishi Sunak’s retreat from true pragmatism may herald return of Liz Truss-style economics – Scotsman comment

Prime Minister must resist growing calls for tax cuts if the country cannot afford them

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scotsman.com
Timestamp:
2 days ago
POLL: Should Liz Truss have access to the post-Prime Ministerial allowance?

POLL: Should Liz Truss have access to the post-Prime Ministerial allowance?

Liz Truss has claimed around £23,000 from her post-Prime Ministerial allowance just five months after resigning from office. Should she have access to the publ [...]

Read full article: POLL: Should Liz Truss have access to the post- [...]
Source:
mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
3 days ago
Liz Truss’s comeback defies all belief – until you understand the rotten forces making it possible

Liz Truss’s comeback defies all belief – until you understand the rotten forces making it possible

A weak PM, a dying government, a radicalised rightwing press: these are the foundations of Truss’s unlikely relaunch, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Read full article: Liz Truss’s comeback defies all belief – until [...]
Timestamp:
3 days ago
Liz Truss rakes in £250k in speaking fees since leaving office earning more in one speech than most Brits do in a year

Liz Truss rakes in £250k in speaking fees since leaving office earning more in one speech than most Brits do in a year

Liz Truss has raked in a quarter of a million pounds in just a year since leaving office, LBC can reveal.

Read full article: Liz Truss rakes in £250k in speaking fees since [...]
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lbc.co.uk
Timestamp:
4 days ago
Liz Truss is more realistic than you might think

Liz Truss is more realistic than you might think

The former prime minister was unrepentant about her time in office in a speech yesterday – but knows her free-market ideas are unpopular.

Read full article: Liz Truss is more realistic than you might thin [...]
Timestamp:
4 days ago

Liz Truss has been claiming from fund for ex-prime ministers despite only 49 days in office

 Liz Truss has been claiming from fund for ex-prime ministers despite only 49 days in office.

Read full article: Liz Truss has been claiming from fund for ex-pr [...]
Timestamp:
4 days ago
What Liz Truss’ speech tells us about the future of the Conservative Party

What Liz Truss’ speech tells us about the future of the Conservative Party

How are you commemorating the rolling anniversaries of Liz Truss’ ill-fated 49-day premiership? On this pressing matter, there are a few schools of thought.&nb [...]

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5 days ago
Liz Truss slams BBC for their fawning over Bank of England – saying finance chiefs must take blame for mortgage costs

Liz Truss slams BBC for their fawning over Bank of England – saying finance chiefs must take blame for mortgage costs

LIZ Truss launched a brutal attack on the BBC for their fawning over the Bank of England – saying finance chiefs must take some blame for rising mortgage costs [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss slams BBC for their fawning over Bank [...]
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thesun.co.uk
Timestamp:
5 days ago
'Why won't Labour commit to ending it!': Sangita Myska grills Labour MP over House of Lords reform

'Why won't Labour commit to ending it!': Sangita Myska grills Labour MP over House of Lords reform

In an open letter to the Prime Minister, Labour's Shadow Paymaster General called for Liz Truss's honours list to be blocked.

Read full article: 'Why won't Labour commit to ending it!': Sangit [...]
Source:
lbc.co.uk
Timestamp:
5 days ago
10 grenades lobbed by failed PM Liz Truss in bizarre 'pig slaughter' speech

10 grenades lobbed by failed PM Liz Truss in bizarre 'pig slaughter' speech

The disaster Prime Minister came out swinging in a brazen speech in which she hit out at civil servants, the Bank of England, Joe Biden, her Tory colleagues, t [...]

Read full article: 10 grenades lobbed by failed PM Liz Truss in bi [...]
Source:
mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Liz Truss is no fiscal hawk

Liz Truss is no fiscal hawk

Liz Truss gave a speech to the Institute for Government on Monday, claiming that she did actually have plans to cut public spending.

Read full article: Liz Truss is no fiscal hawk
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5 days ago
Truss turns on her critics in Q&A session

Truss turns on her critics in Q&A session

She’s back! One year on from the mini-Budget, Liz Truss arrived at the Institute for Government, flashing grins and firing off one-liners. The speech was of th [...]

Read full article: Truss turns on her critics in Q&A session
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5 days ago
Liz Truss hits out at economists and civil servants as she defends mini-budget

Liz Truss hits out at economists and civil servants as she defends mini-budget

The former prime minister declined to express regret about the consequences of her doomed package of £45 billion of tax cuts last year.

Read full article: Liz Truss hits out at economists and civil serv [...]
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Shameless Liz Truss twice refuses to say sorry whining she had 'responsibilities but no power'

Shameless Liz Truss twice refuses to say sorry whining she had 'responsibilities but no power'

Almost a year on from the disastrous mini-budget, the 49-day PM claimed interest rates would have risen even without her intervention and sidestepped questions [...]

Read full article: Shameless Liz Truss twice refuses to say sorry [...]
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mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Truss admits she went ‘too fast’ and compares her pound-crashing mini budget to slaughtering a pig

Truss admits she went ‘too fast’ and compares her pound-crashing mini budget to slaughtering a pig

EX-PM Liz Truss today admitted she went too fast with her pound-crashing mini budget as she compared the tax-slashing bonanza to “slaughtering a pig”. In her f [...]

Read full article: Truss admits she went ‘too fast’ and compares h [...]
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thesun.co.uk
Timestamp:
5 days ago
'I tried to rear and slaughter the pig on market day': Liz Truss admits she 'rushed' disastrous mini-budget

'I tried to rear and slaughter the pig on market day': Liz Truss admits she 'rushed' disastrous mini-budget

Liz Truss has claimed she was forced to change her mini-budget policy because the markets threatened to go into "meltdown".

Read full article: 'I tried to rear and slaughter the pig on marke [...]
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lbc.co.uk
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5 days ago
Watch live: Liz Truss urges government to cut taxes one year on from disastrous mini-budget

Watch live: Liz Truss urges government to cut taxes one year on from disastrous mini-budget

Watch live as Liz Truss makes a speech on the economy on Monday (18 September), urging the government to cut taxes in a speech one year after her disastrous mi [...]

Read full article: Watch live: Liz Truss urges government to cut t [...]
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Former BoE governor suggests Brexiteers have a ‘basic misunderstanding of what drives economies’

Former BoE governor suggests Brexiteers have a ‘basic misunderstanding of what drives economies’

In a scathing attack on Liz Truss and her economic vision, former Bank of England governor Mark Carney accused the former PM of turning Britain into “Argentina [...]

Read full article: Former BoE governor suggests Brexiteers have a [...]
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Rishi Sunak’s new 2030 petrol and diesel car ban under fire as Liz Truss demands delay

Rishi Sunak’s new 2030 petrol and diesel car ban under fire as Liz Truss demands delay

Rishi Sunak has been urged by many to delay the Government's 2030 petrol and diesel car ban plan.

Read full article: Rishi Sunak’s new 2030 petrol and diesel car ba [...]
Timestamp:
6 days ago
Good game? Even Brucie would struggle to make this gripping! CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend's TV

Good game? Even Brucie would struggle to make this gripping! CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend's TV

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: This time last year, Liz Truss was Prime Minister. So much has happened since, the finalists on Alan Carr's Picture Slam (BBC1) didn't rec [...]

Read full article: Good game? Even Brucie would struggle to make t [...]
Timestamp:
6 days ago
Liz Truss to take major swipe at Tories for allowing Left to frame debate on economy & push woke agenda

Liz Truss to take major swipe at Tories for allowing Left to frame debate on economy & push woke agenda

EX-PM Liz Truss will take a major swipe at the Tories for allowing the Left to frame the debate on the economy and push the woke agenda.

Read full article: Liz Truss to take major swipe at Tories for all [...]
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6 days ago

Liz Truss to argue UK economic growth would be stronger in 2030 if her policies were still in place

A year since her mini-Budget, the former prime minister will deliver a vehement defence of the tax-slashing policies she unveiled in office

Read full article: Liz Truss to argue UK economic growth would be [...]
Timestamp:
6 days ago
'A Mark Of Shame': Labour Demand Rishi Sunak Blocks Liz Truss' Resignation Honours

'A Mark Of Shame': Labour Demand Rishi Sunak Blocks Liz Truss' Resignation Honours

The former prime minister is thought to have nominated up to 14 allies for a gong.

Read full article: 'A Mark Of Shame': Labour Demand Rishi Sunak Bl [...]
Timestamp:
6 days ago
I'm a Celebrity 2023 rumoured line-up including Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Josie Gibson and more

I'm a Celebrity 2023 rumoured line-up including Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Josie Gibson and more

I'm a Celebrity is back this autumn with a new raft of celebrities for the jungle, but who's been named as possible campmates for the 2023 series

Read full article: I'm a Celebrity 2023 rumoured line-up including [...]
Timestamp:
6 days ago
Mark Carney Has Delivered A Stunning Takedown Of Brexit And Liz Truss

Mark Carney Has Delivered A Stunning Takedown Of Brexit And Liz Truss

The former Bank of England governor accused the ex-PM of creating "Argentina on the Channel" with her disastrous mini-Budget.

Read full article: Mark Carney Has Delivered A Stunning Takedown O [...]
Timestamp:
7 days ago
Are bizarre claims falsely linking Liz Truss to the ousted BP chief a crude bid to halt her comeback?

Are bizarre claims falsely linking Liz Truss to the ousted BP chief a crude bid to halt her comeback?

In the Commons, senior Ministers were claiming, with apparent seriousness, that happily married Liz Truss was one of the Bernard Looney's 'undeclared relations [...]

Read full article: Are bizarre claims falsely linking Liz Truss to [...]
Timestamp:
7 days ago
Britain 'still paying price' of Liz Truss' budget a year on amid house price slump

Britain 'still paying price' of Liz Truss' budget a year on amid house price slump

A year on from the former PM’s ‘mini budget’, Pat McFadden, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, warned Rishi Sunak “might want to forget all about it - but [...]

Read full article: Britain 'still paying price' of Liz Truss' budg [...]
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mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
9 days ago

Rishi Sunak is ignoring the true lesson of the Liz Truss implosion

If Tories think she offers a cautionary tale against tax cuts, they’re looking at a decade in the wilderness

Read full article: Rishi Sunak is ignoring the true lesson of the [...]
Timestamp:
12 days ago

Liz Truss urges government to classify China a ‘threat’ amid spying allegations

Liz Truss has urged the government to classify China as a “threat” amid the unfolding news that a former parliamentary researcher has been arrested under the O [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss urges government to classify China a [...]
Timestamp:
12 days ago
Liz Truss warns of 'Chinese infiltration at Westminster' after suspected spy arrest

Liz Truss warns of 'Chinese infiltration at Westminster' after suspected spy arrest

The former Prime Minister made a rare intervention in Parliament during an emergency debate on the alleged national security scandal gripping Westminster

Read full article: Liz Truss warns of 'Chinese infiltration at Wes [...]
Source:
mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
12 days ago

After Tories’ turbulent year, we need new leaders with Queen Elizabeth's work ethic – Christine Jardine

The country is still suffering the effects of Liz Truss’s short but disastrous spell as Prime Minister

Read full article: After Tories’ turbulent year, we need new leade [...]
Source:
scotsman.com
Timestamp:
13 days ago
Liz Truss Is Writing A Book About How To 'Save The West' And People Have Thoughts

Liz Truss Is Writing A Book About How To 'Save The West' And People Have Thoughts

"Surely this book deal should have gone to the lettuce?"

Read full article: Liz Truss Is Writing A Book About How To 'Save [...]
Timestamp:
13 days ago
Liz Truss writing book on disastrous 49 days at No10 blaming others for failure

Liz Truss writing book on disastrous 49 days at No10 blaming others for failure

Former PM Liz Truss is penning a loftily-titled book called Ten Years To Save the West, in which she's expected to lash out at the 'global left' and the 'Greta [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss writing book on disastrous 49 days at [...]
Source:
mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
14 days ago
Liz Truss will reveal inside story of her 49-day premiership in new book - including her last meeting with the Queen just hours before monarch died

Liz Truss will reveal inside story of her 49-day premiership in new book - including her last meeting with the Queen just hours before monarch died

Liz Truss is to reveal the inside story of her ill-fated premiership in a book which will signal that her political ambitions remain undimmed.

Read full article: Liz Truss will reveal inside story of her 49-da [...]
Timestamp:
15 days ago
Hunt considers autumn benefit cut to free up pre-election tax giveaway

Hunt considers autumn benefit cut to free up pre-election tax giveaway

Unlinking benefits rise from September inflation rate could save Treasury billions, though similar idea led to backlash for Liz Truss

Read full article: Hunt considers autumn benefit cut to free up pr [...]
Timestamp:
15 days ago
Queen's poignant remark to former Prime Minister Liz Truss during her final audience

Queen's poignant remark to former Prime Minister Liz Truss during her final audience

Queen Elizabeth II's final audience saw her meet with former Prime Minister Liz Truss at Balmoral, who has recalled how the monarch appeared 'frail' but 'menta [...]

Read full article: Queen's poignant remark to former Prime Ministe [...]
Source:
mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
15 days ago
Queen's death one year on: how I saw news of her death unfold at Westminster

Queen's death one year on: how I saw news of her death unfold at Westminster

MPs were gathered in the Commons to hear Liz Truss make a major announcement on energy bills - but it was quickly overshadowed by the news from Balmoral as Her [...]

Read full article: Queen's death one year on: how I saw news of he [...]
Source:
mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
16 days ago
Liz Truss reveals what late Queen told her in last meeting before she died

Liz Truss reveals what late Queen told her in last meeting before she died

Then-prime minister had been summoned to Balmoral in Scotland 48 hours before her death

Read full article: Liz Truss reveals what late Queen told her in l [...]
Timestamp:
16 days ago
Late Queen told Liz Truss they would 'meet again soon' in final engagement

Late Queen told Liz Truss they would 'meet again soon' in final engagement

The late Queen had welcomed Ms Truss to her home in the Scottish Highlands on September 6, 2022, just two days before she died

Read full article: Late Queen told Liz Truss they would 'meet agai [...]
Timestamp:
16 days ago
A lighthearted look back at the disastrous Liz Truss reign

A lighthearted look back at the disastrous Liz Truss reign

Alice Levine and Matt Forde remember seven chaotic weeks in Westminster in the new season of British Scandal. Plus: five of the best musicals podcasts

Read full article: A lighthearted look back at the disastrous Liz [...]
Timestamp:
17 days ago
Liz Truss took on the economic establishment. It’s still failing Britain today

Liz Truss took on the economic establishment. It’s still failing Britain today

Public sector economists failed to predict soaring inflation and the collapse in productivity

Read full article: Liz Truss took on the economic establishment. I [...]
Timestamp:
17 days ago
12 months on, Labour has no update on investigation into suspended MP Nick Brown

12 months on, Labour has no update on investigation into suspended MP Nick Brown

EXCLUSIVE: While this week may be the one year anniversary of Liz Truss and the Queen's death, it's also 12 months since a senior Labour MP was suspended follo [...]

Read full article: 12 months on, Labour has no update on investiga [...]
Timestamp:
17 days ago
Liz Truss's 49 days of chaos one year after disaster Prime Minister took office

Liz Truss's 49 days of chaos one year after disaster Prime Minister took office

Liz Truss's time at the top may have been short, but there was no shortage of drama during the shortest-serving PM's 49 days of chaos and calamity in Downing S [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss's 49 days of chaos one year after dis [...]
Source:
mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
18 days ago
Liz Truss MP - Latest news and updates on the Prime Minister - Mirror Online

Liz Truss MP - Latest news and updates on the Prime Minister - Mirror Online

Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister of the UK and Leader of the Conservative Party on October 20, 2022, becoming the country's shortest-serving PM.

Read full article: Liz Truss MP - Latest news and updates on the P [...]
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mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
4 hours ago
Cash Liz Truss can claim as ex-PM could buy 45,000 school meals - or 164,000 lettuces

Cash Liz Truss can claim as ex-PM could buy 45,000 school meals - or 164,000 lettuces

Former PMs are allowed to claim up to £115,000 from the public purse for “administrative costs” arising from their position

Read full article: Cash Liz Truss can claim as ex-PM could buy 45, [...]
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mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
11 hours ago
Liz Truss & Kwasi Kwarteng's budget disaster one year on - and they're STILL not sorry

Liz Truss & Kwasi Kwarteng's budget disaster one year on - and they're STILL not sorry

It's one year since Kwasi Kwarteng stood up in the Commons and unleashed an economic wrecking ball that's still causing misery for millions - we look at what h [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss & Kwasi Kwarteng's budget disaste [...]
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mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
20 hours ago

Scottish nationalists and Truss-style Tories can see that the UK is fundamentally broken – Stewart McDonald

Liz Truss’s crackpot economic plan did more harm than good but she is right about the need for change

Read full article: Scottish nationalists and Truss-style Tories ca [...]
Source:
scotsman.com
Timestamp:
1 day ago
Liz Truss blasts Labour's plan to hand more power to the budget watchdog, warning that it would not help get the economy growing

Liz Truss blasts Labour's plan to hand more power to the budget watchdog, warning that it would not help get the economy growing

The former PM said it 'beggared belief' that Labour thought Britain's problems could be solved by bigger government. She spoke after Starmer told of plans to s [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss blasts Labour's plan to hand more pow [...]
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1 day ago
Liz Truss dubbed PM ‘Russi Sunak’ in row over Russian invasion, book claims

Liz Truss dubbed PM ‘Russi Sunak’ in row over Russian invasion, book claims

Liz Truss once branded her successor as Prime Minister “Russi Sunak” in a row over the government’s response to the invasion of Ukraine, according to a new boo [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss dubbed PM ‘Russi Sunak’ in row over R [...]
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1 day ago
Exclusive: Liz Truss branded PM 'Russi Sunak' in clash with then Chancellor over slow pace of financial action against Vladimir Putin after Russia in[...]

Exclusive: Liz Truss branded PM 'Russi Sunak' in clash with then Chancellor over slow pace of financial action against Vladimir Putin after Russia in[...]

The political rivals angrily confronted each other over Britain's response to the war.

Read full article: Exclusive: Liz Truss branded PM 'Russi Sunak' i [...]
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1 day ago
‘Beggars belief!’ Liz Truss sparks war of words with Labour over blob love-in

‘Beggars belief!’ Liz Truss sparks war of words with Labour over blob love-in

The former PM has slammed Labour's attacks on her this morning, including a new policy to hand yet more powers to the unaccountable blob.

Read full article: ‘Beggars belief!’ Liz Truss sparks war of words [...]
Timestamp:
1 day ago

Rishi Sunak’s retreat from true pragmatism may herald return of Liz Truss-style economics – Scotsman comment

Prime Minister must resist growing calls for tax cuts if the country cannot afford them

Read full article: Rishi Sunak’s retreat from true pragmatism may [...]
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scotsman.com
Timestamp:
2 days ago
'Bank of England got it wrong' says Robert Peston as he defends 'bonkers' Liz Truss

'Bank of England got it wrong' says Robert Peston as he defends 'bonkers' Liz Truss

As Liz Truss urges Rishi Sunak to follow her lead, the broadcaster highlighted a key way in which the former PM's economic disaster had not entirely been her f [...]

Read full article: 'Bank of England got it wrong' says Robert Pest [...]
Timestamp:
2 days ago
POLL: Should Liz Truss have access to the post-Prime Ministerial allowance?

POLL: Should Liz Truss have access to the post-Prime Ministerial allowance?

Liz Truss has claimed around £23,000 from her post-Prime Ministerial allowance just five months after resigning from office. Should she have access to the publ [...]

Read full article: POLL: Should Liz Truss have access to the post- [...]
Source:
mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
2 days ago
Bolton cited as ex-PM Liz Truss's record criticised

Bolton cited as ex-PM Liz Truss's record criticised

Jonathan Ashworth cited the town as an example as he called on the current Prime Minister to block Ms Truss's Resignation Honours in an interview on…

Read full article: Bolton cited as ex-PM Liz Truss's record critic [...]
Timestamp:
3 days ago
Liz Truss’s comeback defies all belief – until you understand the rotten forces making it possible

Liz Truss’s comeback defies all belief – until you understand the rotten forces making it possible

A weak PM, a dying government, a radicalised rightwing press: these are the foundations of Truss’s unlikely relaunch, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Read full article: Liz Truss’s comeback defies all belief – until [...]
Timestamp:
3 days ago
Liz Truss has been claiming from £115,000 fund for ex-PMs despite only 49 days in office

Liz Truss has been claiming from £115,000 fund for ex-PMs despite only 49 days in office

Rishi Sunak urged to ‘do right thing’ and stop ex-PM from claiming taxpayers’ cash

Read full article: Liz Truss has been claiming from £115,000 fund [...]
Timestamp:
3 days ago
Liz Truss rakes in £250k in speaking fees since leaving office earning more in one speech than most Brits do in a year

Liz Truss rakes in £250k in speaking fees since leaving office earning more in one speech than most Brits do in a year

Liz Truss has raked in a quarter of a million pounds in just a year since leaving office, LBC can reveal.

Read full article: Liz Truss rakes in £250k in speaking fees since [...]
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lbc.co.uk
Timestamp:
4 days ago
Rishi Sunak 'set to delay petrol and diesel ban' 24 hours after Liz Truss demand

Rishi Sunak 'set to delay petrol and diesel ban' 24 hours after Liz Truss demand

The flip-flopping Prime Minister is tipped to announce that a ban on new petrol and diesel cars will be pushed back five years to 2030

Read full article: Rishi Sunak 'set to delay petrol and diesel ban [...]
Source:
mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
4 days ago
Liz Truss is more realistic than you might think

Liz Truss is more realistic than you might think

The former prime minister was unrepentant about her time in office in a speech yesterday – but knows her free-market ideas are unpopular.

Read full article: Liz Truss is more realistic than you might thin [...]
Timestamp:
4 days ago
Outrage as Liz Truss trousers £23,000 of ex-PM allowance in just five months

Outrage as Liz Truss trousers £23,000 of ex-PM allowance in just five months

Figures released by the Cabinet Office show she claimed back £23,310 from her post-Prime Ministerial allowance between October 2022 and March 2023

Read full article: Outrage as Liz Truss trousers £23,000 of ex-PM [...]
Source:
mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
4 days ago

Liz Truss has been claiming from fund for ex-prime ministers despite only 49 days in office

 Liz Truss has been claiming from fund for ex-prime ministers despite only 49 days in office.

Read full article: Liz Truss has been claiming from fund for ex-pr [...]
Timestamp:
4 days ago
Liz Truss claims thousands from fund for ex-PMs despite 49 day tenure

Liz Truss claims thousands from fund for ex-PMs despite 49 day tenure

Liz Truss has been claiming from the £115,000-a-year public fund awarded to former prime ministers despite only serving for 49 days.

Read full article: Liz Truss claims thousands from fund for ex-PMs [...]
Timestamp:
4 days ago
What Liz Truss’ speech tells us about the future of the Conservative Party

What Liz Truss’ speech tells us about the future of the Conservative Party

How are you commemorating the rolling anniversaries of Liz Truss’ ill-fated 49-day premiership? On this pressing matter, there are a few schools of thought.&nb [...]

Read full article: What Liz Truss’ speech tells us about the futur [...]
Timestamp:
4 days ago
'Incompetent clown': Economics Professor lambasts Liz Truss' Institute for Government speech

'Incompetent clown': Economics Professor lambasts Liz Truss' Institute for Government speech

Liz Truss has been branded 'disingenuous' for not taking responsibility for the economic 'disaster' surrounding her tenure as Prime Minister.

Read full article: 'Incompetent clown': Economics Professor lambas [...]
Source:
lbc.co.uk
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Liz Truss slams BBC for their fawning over Bank of England – saying finance chiefs must take blame for mortgage costs

Liz Truss slams BBC for their fawning over Bank of England – saying finance chiefs must take blame for mortgage costs

LIZ Truss launched a brutal attack on the BBC for their fawning over the Bank of England – saying finance chiefs must take some blame for rising mortgage costs [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss slams BBC for their fawning over Bank [...]
Source:
thesun.co.uk
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Andrew Marr: Even after mortgage spikes and market meltdowns, could there really be a way back for Liz Truss?

Andrew Marr: Even after mortgage spikes and market meltdowns, could there really be a way back for Liz Truss?

A lack of economic growth since Liz Truss left office means her return to the top of the Tory party is no longer out of the question, Andrew Marr has said.

Read full article: Andrew Marr: Even after mortgage spikes and mar [...]
Source:
lbc.co.uk
Timestamp:
5 days ago
'Why won't Labour commit to ending it!': Sangita Myska grills Labour MP over House of Lords reform

'Why won't Labour commit to ending it!': Sangita Myska grills Labour MP over House of Lords reform

In an open letter to the Prime Minister, Labour's Shadow Paymaster General called for Liz Truss's honours list to be blocked.

Read full article: 'Why won't Labour commit to ending it!': Sangit [...]
Source:
lbc.co.uk
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Unfortunately for the Tories Liz Truss is the gift that keeps on giving

Unfortunately for the Tories Liz Truss is the gift that keeps on giving

Almost a year after her disastrous mini-budget, ex-PM says she was right and the economy and everyone else was wrong

Read full article: Unfortunately for the Tories Liz Truss is the g [...]
Timestamp:
5 days ago
10 grenades lobbed by failed PM Liz Truss in bizarre 'pig slaughter' speech

10 grenades lobbed by failed PM Liz Truss in bizarre 'pig slaughter' speech

The disaster Prime Minister came out swinging in a brazen speech in which she hit out at civil servants, the Bank of England, Joe Biden, her Tory colleagues, t [...]

Read full article: 10 grenades lobbed by failed PM Liz Truss in bi [...]
Source:
mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
5 days ago

Liz Truss mini-Budget: Former prime minister hits out at economists and says she wishes things turned out 'differently'

Liz Truss has hit out at economists and supposed "institutional bureaucracy" as she defended her mini-budget a year on.

Read full article: Liz Truss mini-Budget: Former prime minister hi [...]
Source:
scotsman.com
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Liz Truss is no fiscal hawk

Liz Truss is no fiscal hawk

Liz Truss gave a speech to the Institute for Government on Monday, claiming that she did actually have plans to cut public spending.

Read full article: Liz Truss is no fiscal hawk
Timestamp:
5 days ago

Liz Truss defends her record as prime minister in think tank speech

Short-lived prime minister Liz Truss is bullish about her record in Number 10 - despite the economic crisis it sparked

Read full article: Liz Truss defends her record as prime minister [...]
Source:
scotsman.com
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Truss turns on her critics in Q&A session

Truss turns on her critics in Q&A session

She’s back! One year on from the mini-Budget, Liz Truss arrived at the Institute for Government, flashing grins and firing off one-liners. The speech was of th [...]

Read full article: Truss turns on her critics in Q&A session
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Liz Truss denies crashing economy and attacks media and Bank ‘groupthink’

Liz Truss denies crashing economy and attacks media and Bank ‘groupthink’

Former PM says she faced political landscape inherently opposed to low taxes and small state

Read full article: Liz Truss denies crashing economy and attacks m [...]
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Liz Truss hits out at economists and civil servants as she defends mini-budget

Liz Truss hits out at economists and civil servants as she defends mini-budget

The former prime minister declined to express regret about the consequences of her doomed package of £45 billion of tax cuts last year.

Read full article: Liz Truss hits out at economists and civil serv [...]
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Liz Truss accuses 'political and economic establishment' of triggering a market 'meltdown' after her tax-cutting mini-budget and claims an 'anti-grow[...]

Liz Truss accuses 'political and economic establishment' of triggering a market 'meltdown' after her tax-cutting mini-budget and claims an 'anti-grow[...]

She defended the mini-budget that sparked economic turmoil and her resignation almost exactly a year ago, saying the 'political and economic establishment' had [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss accuses 'political and economic estab [...]
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Shameless Liz Truss twice refuses to say sorry whining she had 'responsibilities but no power'

Shameless Liz Truss twice refuses to say sorry whining she had 'responsibilities but no power'

Almost a year on from the disastrous mini-budget, the 49-day PM claimed interest rates would have risen even without her intervention and sidestepped questions [...]

Read full article: Shameless Liz Truss twice refuses to say sorry [...]
Source:
mirror.co.uk
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Liz Truss hit out economists and civil servants as she defends mini-budget

Liz Truss hit out economists and civil servants as she defends mini-budget

The former prime minister declined to express regret about the consequences of her doomed package of £45 billion of tax cuts last year.

Read full article: Liz Truss hit out economists and civil servants [...]
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Truss admits she went ‘too fast’ and compares her pound-crashing mini budget to slaughtering a pig

Truss admits she went ‘too fast’ and compares her pound-crashing mini budget to slaughtering a pig

EX-PM Liz Truss today admitted she went too fast with her pound-crashing mini budget as she compared the tax-slashing bonanza to “slaughtering a pig”. In her f [...]

Read full article: Truss admits she went ‘too fast’ and compares h [...]
Source:
thesun.co.uk
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Liz Truss takes brutal swipe at BBC in Brexit rallying cry after Mark Carney's smug attack

Liz Truss takes brutal swipe at BBC in Brexit rallying cry after Mark Carney's smug attack

The former PM made a splash return this morning with a number of no-holds-barred attacks on everyone from the Bank of England to her fellow Tory MPs, to financ [...]

Read full article: Liz Truss takes brutal swipe at BBC in Brexit r [...]
Timestamp:
5 days ago
'I tried to rear and slaughter the pig on market day': Liz Truss admits she 'rushed' disastrous mini-budget

'I tried to rear and slaughter the pig on market day': Liz Truss admits she 'rushed' disastrous mini-budget

Liz Truss has claimed she was forced to change her mini-budget policy because the markets threatened to go into "meltdown".

Read full article: 'I tried to rear and slaughter the pig on marke [...]
Source:
lbc.co.uk
Timestamp:
5 days ago
‘We can make Britain grow again’ — Liz Truss’ Institute for Government speech in full

‘We can make Britain grow again’ — Liz Truss’ Institute for Government speech in full

Former prime minister Liz Truss today made a speech to the Institute for Government on her vision for the UK economy. Here is the transcript in full: It’s grea [...]

Read full article: ‘We can make Britain grow again’ — Liz Truss’ I [...]
Timestamp:
5 days ago
Watch live: Liz Truss urges government to cut taxes one year on from disastrous mini-budget

Watch live: Liz Truss urges government to cut taxes one year on from disastrous mini-budget

Watch live as Liz Truss makes a speech on the economy on Monday (18 September), urging the government to cut taxes in a speech one year after her disastrous mi [...]

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5 days ago
Labour calls for Liz Truss’s resignation honours list to be blocked as ex-PM gives speech defending mini-budget – UK politics live

Labour calls for Liz Truss’s resignation honours list to be blocked as ex-PM gives speech defending mini-budget – UK politics live

Truss will defend her record as PM and say what she thinks the UK must do to promote growth

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5 days ago
Former BoE governor suggests Brexiteers have a ‘basic misunderstanding of what drives economies’

Former BoE governor suggests Brexiteers have a ‘basic misunderstanding of what drives economies’

In a scathing attack on Liz Truss and her economic vision, former Bank of England governor Mark Carney accused the former PM of turning Britain into “Argentina [...]

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5 days ago
Liz Truss urges Rishi Sunak to cut taxes, slash benefits and raise the retirement age as she defends record in No10

Liz Truss urges Rishi Sunak to cut taxes, slash benefits and raise the retirement age as she defends record in No10

Liz Truss will encourage the government to cut taxes, trim benefits spending and raise the retirement age on Monday.

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5 days ago
Rishi Sunak’s new 2030 petrol and diesel car ban under fire as Liz Truss demands delay

Rishi Sunak’s new 2030 petrol and diesel car ban under fire as Liz Truss demands delay

Rishi Sunak has been urged by many to delay the Government's 2030 petrol and diesel car ban plan.

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5 days ago

Labour trying to block Liz Truss honours list

Jonathan Ashworth, the Shadow Paymaster general, has written to the Prime Minister urging him to stop his predecessor’s plans

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6 days ago
Good game? Even Brucie would struggle to make this gripping! CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend's TV

Good game? Even Brucie would struggle to make this gripping! CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend's TV

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: This time last year, Liz Truss was Prime Minister. So much has happened since, the finalists on Alan Carr's Picture Slam (BBC1) didn't rec [...]

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6 days ago
Liz Truss says she 'slaughtered pig' too fast as she demands pension age rises

Liz Truss says she 'slaughtered pig' too fast as she demands pension age rises

The 49-day disaster PM will warn the UK is in a "precarious position" at risk of a "downward spiral" as she demands extreme measures from No10 and defends her [...]

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6 days ago
Liz Truss to take major swipe at Tories for allowing Left to frame debate on economy & push woke agenda

Liz Truss to take major swipe at Tories for allowing Left to frame debate on economy & push woke agenda

EX-PM Liz Truss will take a major swipe at the Tories for allowing the Left to frame the debate on the economy and push the woke agenda.

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6 days ago
Truss calls for Goverment to slash taxes one year after 'disastrous' mini budget

Truss calls for Goverment to slash taxes one year after 'disastrous' mini budget

Liz Truss will renew calls for the Government to slash taxes, shrink welfare spending and raise the retirement age in a speech one year on from her disastrous [...]

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6 days ago

Liz Truss to argue UK economic growth would be stronger in 2030 if her policies were still in place

A year since her mini-Budget, the former prime minister will deliver a vehement defence of the tax-slashing policies she unveiled in office

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6 days ago
Liz Truss calls for the ban on the sale of new petrol cars by 2030 to be delayed and says the tourist tax should be axed

Liz Truss calls for the ban on the sale of new petrol cars by 2030 to be delayed and says the tourist tax should be axed

Former prime minister Liz Truss will make the calls in a speech as part of a wider plea for tax cuts to get the economy growing and ease the pain on hard-press [...]

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6 days ago
'A Mark Of Shame': Labour Demand Rishi Sunak Blocks Liz Truss' Resignation Honours

'A Mark Of Shame': Labour Demand Rishi Sunak Blocks Liz Truss' Resignation Honours

The former prime minister is thought to have nominated up to 14 allies for a gong.

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6 days ago
Liz Truss to defend her time in office with swipe at ‘dinner party’ critics

Liz Truss to defend her time in office with swipe at ‘dinner party’ critics

Liz Truss is due to give an impassioned defence of her economic legacy on Monday, marking the upcoming anniversary of her mini-budget and rebuking critics on

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6 days ago
I'm a Celebrity 2023 rumoured line-up including Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Josie Gibson and more

I'm a Celebrity 2023 rumoured line-up including Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Josie Gibson and more

I'm a Celebrity is back this autumn with a new raft of celebrities for the jungle, but who's been named as possible campmates for the 2023 series

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6 days ago
Liz Truss to claim mini budget would have saved Britain £35b as she defends disastrous time in No 10

Liz Truss to claim mini budget would have saved Britain £35b as she defends disastrous time in No 10

Liz Truss will deliver a speech claiming that her government would have saved tens of billions of pounds, likely deepening inter-party Conservative divisions.

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6 days ago
Mark Carney Has Delivered A Stunning Takedown Of Brexit And Liz Truss

Mark Carney Has Delivered A Stunning Takedown Of Brexit And Liz Truss

The former Bank of England governor accused the ex-PM of creating "Argentina on the Channel" with her disastrous mini-Budget.

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7 days ago
Liz Truss mini-budget nearly included flat 20p rate of income tax

Liz Truss mini-budget nearly included flat 20p rate of income tax

A “flat tax” that would have seen all workers pay just 20 per cent of their income to the Treasury was considered for Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget. In th [...]

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7 days ago
Are bizarre claims falsely linking Liz Truss to the ousted BP chief a crude bid to halt her comeback?

Are bizarre claims falsely linking Liz Truss to the ousted BP chief a crude bid to halt her comeback?

In the Commons, senior Ministers were claiming, with apparent seriousness, that happily married Liz Truss was one of the Bernard Looney's 'undeclared relations [...]

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7 days ago
LORD ASHCROFT: Last summer's battle for No10 wasn't just a clash of ideas but for one candidate it was much more than that... Frosty Liz Truss didn't[...]

LORD ASHCROFT: Last summer's battle for No10 wasn't just a clash of ideas but for one candidate it was much more than that... Frosty Liz Truss didn't[...]

Here, in our second extract from LORD ASHCROFT's revealing book charting the political career of Rishi, he shows just how bumpy Sunak's path was from No 11 Dow [...]

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7 days ago
Britain 'still paying price' of Liz Truss' budget a year on amid house price slump

Britain 'still paying price' of Liz Truss' budget a year on amid house price slump

A year on from the former PM’s ‘mini budget’, Pat McFadden, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, warned Rishi Sunak “might want to forget all about it - but [...]

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mirror.co.uk
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7 days ago

Interest rates UK: Home owners on tracker mortgages set to pay £324 more a month than when Liz Truss launched mini-Budget

Home owners on tracker mortgages can expect to be paying an average of £324 more a month on their loan than a year ago if, as expected, the Bank of England (Bo [...]

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9 days ago

Rishi Sunak is ignoring the true lesson of the Liz Truss implosion

If Tories think she offers a cautionary tale against tax cuts, they’re looking at a decade in the wilderness

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10 days ago
The Trussites are plotting their comeback

The Trussites are plotting their comeback

A year after Liz Truss’s chaotic premiership, her inner circle believe their time will come again.

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12 days ago

Liz Truss urges government to classify China a ‘threat’ amid spying allegations

Liz Truss has urged the government to classify China as a “threat” amid the unfolding news that a former parliamentary researcher has been arrested under the O [...]

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12 days ago
Rishi Sunak’s popularity falls below Boris Johnson's in latest dire poll

Rishi Sunak’s popularity falls below Boris Johnson's in latest dire poll

Tory MPs kicked out both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss because they were concerned they were too unpopular to win an election. Now the same fate is befalling Ris [...]

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12 days ago
Liz Truss warns of 'Chinese infiltration at Westminster' after suspected spy arrest

Liz Truss warns of 'Chinese infiltration at Westminster' after suspected spy arrest

The former Prime Minister made a rare intervention in Parliament during an emergency debate on the alleged national security scandal gripping Westminster

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12 days ago
Liz Truss calls for ban on schools letting pupils 'socially transition' by changing name and pronouns after Rishi Sunak backs away from trying to pas[...]

Liz Truss calls for ban on schools letting pupils 'socially transition' by changing name and pronouns after Rishi Sunak backs away from trying to pas[...]

The former PM warned that allowing pupils to use different names, pronouns and uniforms while learning was 'not a neutral act'.

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12 days ago

After Tories’ turbulent year, we need new leaders with Queen Elizabeth's work ethic – Christine Jardine

The country is still suffering the effects of Liz Truss’s short but disastrous spell as Prime Minister

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scotsman.com
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13 days ago
Wet Lettuce Liz Truss threatening most unwanted political comeback of all time

Wet Lettuce Liz Truss threatening most unwanted political comeback of all time

The former Prime Minister who failed to outlast the Daily Star lettuce could be set for a sensational comeback into politics as she prepares to release a very [...]

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13 days ago
Liz Truss Is Writing A Book About How To 'Save The West' And People Have Thoughts

Liz Truss Is Writing A Book About How To 'Save The West' And People Have Thoughts

"Surely this book deal should have gone to the lettuce?"

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13 days ago
Liz Truss, Prime Minister for 49 days, to 'share lessons' of time in Government in new book

Liz Truss, Prime Minister for 49 days, to 'share lessons' of time in Government in new book

'Ten Years to Save the West' will be out next April

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13 days ago
Liz Truss writing book on disastrous 49 days at No10 blaming others for failure

Liz Truss writing book on disastrous 49 days at No10 blaming others for failure

Former PM Liz Truss is penning a loftily-titled book called Ten Years To Save the West, in which she's expected to lash out at the 'global left' and the 'Greta [...]

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mirror.co.uk
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14 days ago
Liz Truss to offer lessons from premiership in book

Liz Truss to offer lessons from premiership in book

The book, due out in April, is titled Ten Years to Save the West.

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14 days ago
Liz Truss will reveal inside story of her 49-day premiership in new book - including her last meeting with the Queen just hours before monarch died

Liz Truss will reveal inside story of her 49-day premiership in new book - including her last meeting with the Queen just hours before monarch died

Liz Truss is to reveal the inside story of her ill-fated premiership in a book which will signal that her political ambitions remain undimmed.

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15 days ago
Who really runs Britain? As Liz Truss returns to the political fray ANDREW PIERCE reveals the inside story of how she was driven out as Prime Ministe[...]

Who really runs Britain? As Liz Truss returns to the political fray ANDREW PIERCE reveals the inside story of how she was driven out as Prime Ministe[...]

ANDREW PIERCE: Just over a month into her premiership and under fire on multiple fronts, Liz Truss (pictured) returned to her desk in 10 Downing Street to find [...]

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15 days ago
Hunt considers autumn benefit cut to free up pre-election tax giveaway

Hunt considers autumn benefit cut to free up pre-election tax giveaway

Unlinking benefits rise from September inflation rate could save Treasury billions, though similar idea led to backlash for Liz Truss

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15 days ago
Ex-chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng feels ‘let down’ by Liz Truss and says they haven’t spoken about sacking

Ex-chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng feels ‘let down’ by Liz Truss and says they haven’t spoken about sacking

Former Chancellor says he felt ‘this feeling of emptiness’ after being fired over former PM’s mini budget ‘capitulation’

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15 days ago
Queen's poignant remark to former Prime Minister Liz Truss during her final audience

Queen's poignant remark to former Prime Minister Liz Truss during her final audience

Queen Elizabeth II's final audience saw her meet with former Prime Minister Liz Truss at Balmoral, who has recalled how the monarch appeared 'frail' but 'menta [...]

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15 days ago

Queen Elizabeth II and all her Prime Ministers from 1952 - from Winston Churchill to Liz Truss

Here is a look back at all the heads of government who served Queen Elizabeth II during her 70-year reign from 1952.

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scotsman.com
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15 days ago
Queen's death one year on: how I saw news of her death unfold at Westminster

Queen's death one year on: how I saw news of her death unfold at Westminster

MPs were gathered in the Commons to hear Liz Truss make a major announcement on energy bills - but it was quickly overshadowed by the news from Balmoral as Her [...]

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mirror.co.uk
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15 days ago
Liz Truss recalls moment she was told the Queen had died - just days after her first meeting as Prime Minister

Liz Truss recalls moment she was told the Queen had died - just days after her first meeting as Prime Minister

Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral Castle on September 8 2022

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16 days ago
Liz Truss reveals what late Queen told her in last meeting before she died

Liz Truss reveals what late Queen told her in last meeting before she died

Then-prime minister had been summoned to Balmoral in Scotland 48 hours before her death

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16 days ago
Liz Truss reveals details of final meeting with Queen days before her death

Liz Truss reveals details of final meeting with Queen days before her death

The late Queen met with former British Prime Minister, Liz Truss just two days before her death last September.

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16 days ago
Late Queen told Liz Truss they would 'meet again soon' in final engagement

Late Queen told Liz Truss they would 'meet again soon' in final engagement

The late Queen had welcomed Ms Truss to her home in the Scottish Highlands on September 6, 2022, just two days before she died

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16 days ago
Ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss reveals Queen was 'mentally alert' in their last meeting together

Ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss reveals Queen was 'mentally alert' in their last meeting together

Liz Truss shed light on their final historic meeting (pictured) at Balmoral Castle on September 6, 2022, explaining that the Queen was 'determined to do her du [...]

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16 days ago
A lighthearted look back at the disastrous Liz Truss reign

A lighthearted look back at the disastrous Liz Truss reign

Alice Levine and Matt Forde remember seven chaotic weeks in Westminster in the new season of British Scandal. Plus: five of the best musicals podcasts

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17 days ago
Liz Truss's £4,000 'Jenga' lectern tracked down as it finally gets new home

Liz Truss's £4,000 'Jenga' lectern tracked down as it finally gets new home

The higgledy-piggledy pile of bricks, specially made for her at a cost of £4,175 to taxpayers, had been left languishing in Downing Street after she only laste [...]

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mirror.co.uk
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17 days ago
Liz Truss took on the economic establishment. It’s still failing Britain today

Liz Truss took on the economic establishment. It’s still failing Britain today

Public sector economists failed to predict soaring inflation and the collapse in productivity

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17 days ago
Heartbreaking pic of Queen Elizabeth on this day last year as she prepared for final duty

Heartbreaking pic of Queen Elizabeth on this day last year as she prepared for final duty

Queen Elizabeth II welcomed Liz Truss at Balmoral on this day last year, in one of her final acts as monarch before her death on September 8.

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17 days ago
12 months on, Labour has no update on investigation into suspended MP Nick Brown

12 months on, Labour has no update on investigation into suspended MP Nick Brown

EXCLUSIVE: While this week may be the one year anniversary of Liz Truss and the Queen's death, it's also 12 months since a senior Labour MP was suspended follo [...]

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17 days ago
Builder Barratt reduced workforce by hundreds after Liz Truss’s premiership

Builder Barratt reduced workforce by hundreds after Liz Truss’s premiership

The business stopped hiring due to the downturn in the market which followed the mini budget.

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17 days ago
Liz Truss's 49 days of chaos one year after disaster Prime Minister took office

Liz Truss's 49 days of chaos one year after disaster Prime Minister took office

Liz Truss's time at the top may have been short, but there was no shortage of drama during the shortest-serving PM's 49 days of chaos and calamity in Downing S [...]

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18 days ago

Conservatives

Liz Truss: one year on

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18 days ago
Liz Truss MP - Latest news and updates on the Prime Minister - Mirror Online

Liz Truss MP - Latest news and updates on the Prime Minister - Mirror Online

Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister of the UK and Leader of the Conservative Party on October 20, 2022, becoming the country's shortest-serving PM.

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mirror.co.uk
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18 days ago
Liz Truss's £4,000 'Jenga' lectern still hasn't found new home a year after she became PM

Liz Truss's £4,000 'Jenga' lectern still hasn't found new home a year after she became PM

The higgledy-piggledy pile of bricks is still languishing in Downing Street despite the Government hoping it would be used by another Whitehall department or a [...]

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