Mark Littlewood: “The climate has shifted against us”
The outgoing head of the Institute of Economic Affairs on whether the UK will ever turn to free-market economics again.
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.
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Some Tory voices want Rishi Sunak to bar Truss from standing as a Conservative candidate at the next election.
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The return of the free-market right
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The Trussites are plotting their comeback
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The party is set to repeat the pattern that led to her election a year ago.
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Conservative constituencies are revolting against CCHQ.
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The Tory who wants to oust Liz Truss
James Bagge, a former high sheriff of Norfolk, is contemplating standing against the ex-PM.
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The 1922 Committee is adept at removing prime ministers. How long before its head prefect pays Rishi Sunak a visit?
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At a patronage rate of a peer per fortnight, Liz Truss’s honours list will out-crony Johnson’s
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The markets are having their revenge on Rishi Sunak
Investors continue to charge a “moron premium” for the UK’s economic mismanagement.
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What is Liz Truss doing in Taiwan?
The former British prime minister is the wrong messenger, but a serious conversation is needed about the UK’s China policy.
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Why Suella Braverman is unsackable
Just what does the Home Secretary need to do to get sacked? Call for non-dom status to be scrapped? Accidentally…
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What might replace the CBI?
The lobbying group was seen as the unified voice of British business. The race is on to supplant it.
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Liz Truss becomes the latest Tory MP to fancy a presenting gig on GB News
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Mock Liz Truss all you like, but her influence over the Tory party remains
Her new pronouncements show glimmers of how her faction could pull together economic liberalism with cultural conservatism.
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The absurdity of Liz Truss blaming high taxes on woke culture
By making wokery the bogeyman for an economic disaster she’s implicated in, Truss has given the game away.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg shuns the barbarians at the gates
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Rishi Sunak is continually being tested on Tory sleaze
As trust in politicians hits a seven-year low, the PM is dogged by his predecessors’ peerage nominations and the scandal…
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The year of woe behind the civil servants strike
Political turmoil made 2022 a year of frustration and powerlessness for civil servants.
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