What drives Liz Truss? The people and ideas behind the PM’s economics – Audio Long Reads
A deep history of Britain’s most radical – or reckless – economic experiment in 40 years.
ByLiz Truss
Elizabeth Truss was prime minister from 6 September 2022 to 25 October 2022. Her tenure in the job, marked by unrest in financial markets, was the shortest in British history. She studied philosophy, politics and economics at Merton College, Oxford. She is married and has two children, and was elected as Conservative MP for South West Norfolk in 2010. In 2014 David Cameron appointed her as Environment Secretary, and, at 38, she was the youngest female member of his cabinet. After that she became the first female Lord Chancellor and the first female Conservative foreign secretary.
Delaying the OBR report will backfire on the government
Truss and Kwarteng are showing how callous their disregard for economic reality is.
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I organised Liz Truss’s local radio interviews – here’s how it all unfolded
Sometimes local radio and regional news programmes get overlooked, but not that day.
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The alternative to growth that could save humanity
Fifty years after the seminal Limits to Growth report, climate experts have written a survival guide for the planet.
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Is this the end of the Tory era?
Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have handed Labour its biggest poll lead in decades – and Conservative MPs are terrified.
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Faced with economic reality, Liz Truss insists it’s everyone else who is wrong
If only markets understood the very clever pro-growth plan, none of this would have happened.
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Decoding the UK’s economic crisis
What do Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng really want? To maintain Britain’s standing as a rentier's paradise – and they…
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Can Liz Truss survive?
The PM is marching on in defiant hope – but the ruthless Conservative machine may eject her if there is…
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Who pays for Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s mess? Welfare claimants, as always
The government’s giveaway to the rich may be matched by real-terms cuts to benefits for the poorest and most vulnerable.
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Underestimate local radio at your peril, Liz Truss
It was a mistake to absent herself from the Today programme, believing she’d have an easier time elsewhere.
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The first stirrings of rebellion against Liz Truss
The riotous market response to the mini-Budget has, for some Tory MPs, destroyed the PM’s authority as party leader.
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As Trussonomics looms, when will I be able to afford to eat eggs Benedict again?
The number of people who will be qualified to write their own “Down and Out” column is about to go…
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The Conservatives are destroying themselves – and the British economy
Even if Labour wins the next election it risks inheriting a wasteland after two more years of Tory government.
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Leader: Unserious government for serious times
In a new era of permanent crisis, voters crave security, not Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s free-market utopianism.
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The Bank of England has been forced into a dangerous position
If investors believe the Bank is no longer able to control monetary policy, the UK’s economic crisis will deepen.
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Liz Truss and the rise of the libertarian right
The free-market thinkers and ideas behind the most radical economic experiment in Britain for 40 years.
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Voters no longer trust the Conservative Party to manage the economy
Many of the headline measures announced by Kwasi Kwarteng are actually popular – but the mini-budget overall is not.
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The Conservatives are lost in a fantasy world and are a danger to the country
The virus that infected the Tories during the Brexit years has led to ever more delusional beliefs.
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Financial markets have rejected the Tories’ economic vandalism
The slide in sterling indicates that traders are cynical about Liz Truss’s big gamble on growth.
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Some advice for Rishi Sunak as Britain’s new prime minister
As the keys to No 10 are handed over, policy leaders share their thoughts on the biggest issues facing the…
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