Hard work won’t be enough to pay your energy bill
The UK government must introduce a proper windfall tax and help the poorest with the soaring cost of energy.
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.
The best solution to the energy crisis is to literally hand out money
Why are we more scared of unfair gains than unfair losses?
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Sunak and Truss are wrong, Tory members want climate action
The leadership candidates have let their voters down by failing to take global warming seriously.
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When will we be able to talk about Brexit again?
The cost of leaving the EU is becoming ever clearer but the Conservatives and Labour have taken a vow of…
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Liz Truss is gaining momentum in the Tory leadership race
The Defence Secretary has endorsed Truss's campaign in a major coup – but Rishi Sunak could fight back this weekend…
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What could Liz Truss as prime minister mean for Scotland?
The policies that win you the support of Tory members are almost guaranteed to have Scottish voters hissing in horror.
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Tory members are taking an enormous gamble by backing Liz Truss
The Foreign Secretary’s political skills are underrated but her readiness to dismiss expert opinion is a risk.
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Nadine Dorries and the earrings of power
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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What Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are getting wrong about Brexit
Editor's Note: In their race to the right, the Conservative leadership candidates are misreading the times.
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The birth of a new political era
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are not the choice this country deserves after three years of Boris Johnson. Britain needs…
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Rishi Sunak’s tax cut U-turn means he knows he is losing
The former chancellor’s pledge to cut VAT on energy bills shows he is dancing to Liz Truss’s tune.
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Thatchermania won’t save the Conservative Party
It’s not just Liz Truss – Tory women will be compared to Margaret Thatcher whether they like it or not.
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Rishi Sunak reinvents himself as a China hawk
The former chancellor prioritised trade when he was in office, but now he needs to counter Liz Truss’s buccaneering persona.
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Do we think Liz Truss is silly because we’re sexist?
Boris Johnson was never ridiculed in quite the same way.
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Tory leadership debate: Rishi Sunak fails to achieve breakthrough against Liz Truss
Tonight’s exchanges leave the tax-cutting Foreign Secretary as the clear front-runner to become prime minister.
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Why Keir Starmer has borrowed the Tories’ “magic money tree” attack line
The Labour leader is framing Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak as dangerous radicals, and his party as mainstream and safe.
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The next Conservative prime minister is already destined for failure
Both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss offer only fantastical promises and scattershot ideas.
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Rishi Sunak is already running out of time to save his campaign
The former chancellor has little time to overturn Liz Truss’s 24-point lead before Tory members begin voting next week.
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Rishi vs Liz is the excruciating summer spectacle we’ve all been waiting for
Is there anything more humiliating than a Tory leadership contest?
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Labour has no reason to fear Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss
Whoever becomes prime minister takes over at a moment of maximum difficulty and will struggle to win an election.
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