Fuel efficiency gap will cost households hundreds of pounds
Energy costs for older, poorly insulated homes will increase by twice the rate of more efficient ones.
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.
David Cameron’s “Big Society” is still very much with us
As the UK braces for Liz Truss’s austerity 2.0, charities are still picking up the welfare slack from the first…
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Must the Tories choose between Liz Truss and Boris Johnson?
The question that troubles Conservatives as they ponder regicide is whether the former prime minister could yet return.
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Does Liz Truss actually want the UK to face blackouts this winter?
There is no political or economic justification for the refusal to inform the public on how to save energy.
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Warnings of winter blackouts overshadow Liz Truss’s energy price cap
The UK faces a potential series of power cuts in the coming months, yet the cabinet remains divided.
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Why do the Tories hate voters so much?
The supposed “anti-growth coalition” targeted by Liz Truss turns out to include the overwhelming majority of the country.
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How Liz Truss’s stealth taxes will squeeze households
For every £1 saved by tax cuts, an extra £2 is set to be lost to tax rises and benefit…
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The real anti-growth coalition is anti-immigrant
If Liz Truss really wants growth, she should start with the solution that would make our economy more competitive, flexible…
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Who voted for this? Truss’s “anti-growth” attacks are uniting the green movement
It’s not just Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion who are opposed to aggressive deregulation and growth at any cost.
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The Tories are trapped – what can they possibly do now?
MPs have overwhelmingly concluded that Liz Truss is not up to it, but there is no consensus about who should…
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The problem with Liz Truss’s attack on the “anti-growth coalition”
Growth is about whether people feel they have more money – and voters think Labour is the best party to…
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How “deliver” became an unavoidable political buzzword
On 5 September, Liz Truss declared, “we will deliver, we will deliver, and we will deliver”. What, if anything, does…
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Britain braces itself for the devastation of austerity 2.0
Britons on low incomes dread the Liz Truss government’s “reverse Robin Hood” plan, which prioritises bankers over benefit claimants.
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What people miss when they criticise inheritance tax
Only 4 per cent of estates end up having to pay it.
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Liz Truss speaks for 36 minutes, the shortest conference address in recent history
The Prime Minister’s speech was less than two-thirds of the average length.
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Liz Truss’s strident rhetoric cannot disguise her political weakness
The Prime Minister’s speech cheered Tory activists but her problem is the rebel MPs awaiting her at parliament.
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The Conservatives’ Great Leap Forward
Liz Truss and her team understand the British economy’s weaknesses but their utopian free-market solutions are undermining the Bank of…
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Liz Truss wants to govern a country that does not exist
The Prime Minister’s ideology blinds her to reality: Britain wants stability, not free-market revolution.
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Will Tanner’s Diary: Conservative conference blues, Michael Gove on manoeuvres, and the joys of insomnia
The vibe among the MPs in Birmingham (many stayed away) is not conspiratorial – yet. But everyone is on edge.
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Letter of the week: A doomed dash for growth
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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