The quiet consensus
Britain’s fundamental problems – dismal productivity, regional inequality, dilapidated infrastructure – long pre-date the EU referendum.
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.
Keir Starmer is living in Liz Truss’s world
If the former PM’s ideals are going to live on in any form it is likely with Labour.
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Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list promises to be a nepotistic gong show
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Why the Tory right wants hush from Truss on tax-cuts
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The civil servants’ expenses files reveal a government committed to waste
The GPC revelations are the latest scandal to highlight how the Conservatives have squandered Britain’s resources.
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Another Rishi reshuffle won’t help him restore party discipline
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The decline of the One Nation Tory
That Rishi Sunak is under pressure to pursue a Trussite agenda is a reflection of how narrow the Conservatives’ ideological…
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Rishi Sunak, the man who isn’t there
As the Prime Minister dithers, his foes advance and Britain declines.
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How Rishi Sunak could be out by the end of the year
If the local elections go badly and the Prime Minister fails to impress, Tory MPs may take revenge.
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The left shouldn’t rush to blame Liz Truss for Britain’s woes
The former PM is a sideshow – the real damage was done by the “sensible” people who championed austerity.
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Is any Tory capable of feeling shame?
Liz Truss is merely the latest senior Conservative to blame everyone but herself for the damage inflicted on the country.
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Liz Truss’s essay shows she is as deluded as ever
The danger is how many Tories will agree with the former prime minister’s bizarre logic.
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Liz Truss is the future of British Conservatism
Like Barry Goldwater in 1964, Truss had the right ideas at the wrong time.
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The last thing Britain needs is a Trussite think tank
I worked for Liz Truss and admire her but she is the wrong advocate for free-market ideas.
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Can Rishi Sunak survive the wrath of the right?
This year will be one in which Boris Johnson and Liz Truss’s supporters exact revenge upon the Prime Minister.
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From partygate to Trussonomics, 2022 in review
The New Statesman looks back at the biggest moments in British politics this year.
This was the year the UK was forced to abandon its economic delusions
Many of our problems stem from low economic growth – but we have learned solutions need to be credible.
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The New Year will only bring more Tory divisions for Rishi Sunak
The Prime Minister told MPs to “unite or die” but his time in No 10 has been marked by repeated…
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Liz Truss’s attempted comeback is a warning of the new, aggressive conservatism
The right is ready for a global assault on the big state and social liberalism.
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Nick Robinson’s Media Notebook: On Berlin’s dark past, and in defence of the Today programme
Gazing down from the Reichstag’s glass dome, I was reminded that Britain is not alone in facing unstable politics.
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