We’re back – what’s changed? The Conservative leadership contest limps on. Liz Truss remains on course to become the UK’s next prime minister and the cost-of-living crisis is set to worsen. Plus ça change.
At least the end is nigh: the new Tory leader will be announced on Monday 5 September and the Queen will appoint them prime minister the following day. The first few months of Truss’s premiership (assuming that she does win and the polls aren’t mistaken) will be crucial to the government’s response to the cost-of-living crisis. Nonetheless, the contradictory reports surfacing in the papers suggest Truss has not yet settled on a plan.
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