“We’re touchy about the term ‘managed decline’”: Joanne Anderson on being mayor of Liverpool
As Labour Party Conference begins, Anderson discusses the city’s political crisis and the tragedy of the recent shootings.
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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.
Is Liz Truss trying to lose the next election?
The Prime Minister says she’s happy to be unpopular – a bold position for someone who must face the electorate…
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Mini-budget 2022 summary: Kwasi Kwarteng’s major tax cut plans – as it happened
Follow the latest updates on the government's mini-Budget, with analysis and commentary from the New Statesman politics team.
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Liz Truss has taken the biggest ideological gamble for 40 years
Could a no-holds-barred drive for growth lead voters to return to the Tories?
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The tax cut for top earners isn’t just immoral – it won’t work
How will scrapping the 45p rate pay for itself? The Tories can’t answer that.
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Kwasi Kwarteng has cut tax for the highest earners – will he pay a political price?
Like George Osborne, the new Chancellor has delivered another “tax cut for millionaires” but history suggests Labour may not benefit.
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Stamp duty is a useless tax – but cutting it won’t help
People aren’t moving because house prices are too high.
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Trussonomics is “a gamble” that breaks all the normal fiscal rules, committee hears
Spending announcements expected in the mini-budget are “unusual, to be polite”, experts tell the Treasury select committee.
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What to expect from Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget announcement today
Each policy is likely to be justified in terms of one aim: economic growth.
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British voters move left on the economy, as Liz Truss drags it to the right
Enthusiasm is growing in Britain for higher taxes and spending on public services, and redistribution of wealth.
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Why Liz Truss can’t be a 21st-century Thatcher
It isn’t possible to launch a free-market revolution in an economy still defined by the last one.
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Liz Truss risks spectacular failure with her “pro-growth” gamble
At the heart of Trussonomics is a belief in cutting taxes to achieve growth. But markets aren’t so sure.
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Will Liz Truss’ gamble on growth pay off?
There are already doubts among Tory MPs about the viability of the plans.
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The Truss government is planning to make the rich richer
The tax cuts to be announced on Friday will hand a much greater proportion of income back to those who…
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There will be no UK-US trade deal – and the Brexit fantasy has been punctured
Having cut themselves off from Europe, the Tories are adrift without a destination or a steering wheel.
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Why some Tories are hoping for a Labour landslide
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The meaning of Trussonomics: prevent a recession, then stake everything on growth
All governments want higher growth but few put the incentives in place to achieve it.
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Liz Truss is going for broke
As the Prime Minister’s radical right-wing government gambles on economic growth, Labour needs to be the party of prudence –…
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Liz Truss and Joe Biden are at odds over trickle-down economics
The Prime Minister and the President will hold a bilateral meeting while in New York for the UN General Assembly.
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The EU remains by far the UK’s biggest trading partner
In July exports to the US totalled £4bn, compared with £17.4bn to the EU.
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