With a new resident in Downing Street, I survey 15 years of personal austerity
It is a decade and a half to the day since my life of insecurity and cheap furniture began.
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.
What Liz Truss means for Labour
The new prime minister is not the gift to Keir Starmer that many on the left think.
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The coming autumn crisis
The new government faces a national emergency. If it responds accordingly, the Conservatives could yet remain in power.
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Liz Truss and the cost of winning
In her campaign, she told party members what they wanted to hear. The new prime minister’s troubles are only just…
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PMQs today: Liz Truss’s ideological dividing lines could be a gift to Labour
The Prime Minister’s performance was confident but her opposition to a windfall tax puts her in dangerous territory.
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It’s out with the old – as toadying Tories try to get in with the new
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Ian McEwan’s long look back
The novelist on Liz Truss, Salman Rushdie, and why he finally decided to write his own story into his new…
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Sasha Swire’s Diary: Sunak’s lucky escape, delusional politicians, and my husband’s fixation with the smart meter
While we wait for government support to deal with surging energy costs, we have installed a smart meter. Bad idea.
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Leader: The cold reality of Trussonomics
Our new prime minister ignores the question of why there are numerous economies that are not only more equal than…
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Keir Starmer prepares to take on Liz Truss
The Labour leader will do battle over policy differences, not personality.
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Liz Truss thinks we have to choose between inequality and growth – but it doesn’t have to be this way
Other countries do a better job of both redistribution and growth.
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Liz Truss’s new cabinet is the most right-wing for a generation
Few One Nation Tories or those close to Rishi Sunak have yet been offered jobs in the Prime Minister’s team.
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The gods are not smiling on Liz Truss
Any illusions about gravitas were quickly scuppered by the new Prime Minister’s first speech.
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Does Liz Truss have anything to say?
The Prime Minister’s first speech in office could have been generated by a cliché machine.
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Boris Johnson is as resentful and self-pitying as ever
The Prime Minister still views his defenestration as an injustice, one he may want to rectify.
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From energy prices to inflation: how Liz Truss plans to tackle the economy
The new Prime Minister will take charge of a country facing huge economic challenges.
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Why the Tories are suddenly into printing money and borrowing
This government has entered the strange world of Modern Monetary Theory: if a country can issue its own currency, it…
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Liz Truss’s problems start now
The incoming PM faces a nation on the brink and a Labour Party readying itself for her arrival.
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Liz Truss’s victory speech was crushingly banal
The crowd waited for details, but none came – so they applauded anyway.
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Liz Truss’s Tory leadership win is the narrowest under the current rules
Boris Johnson, David Cameron and Iain Duncan Smith all won by bigger margins than Truss.
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