The UK is in the grip of a credibility crisis
Jeremy Hunt may have overthrown the mini-Budget, but markets still demand a plan to avoid further economic turmoil.
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Where is Liz Truss?
The Prime Minister’s refusal to appear only emphasises how desperately weak her position is.
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Jeremy Hunt hastens Liz Truss’s downfall
The Chancellor has trashed the rationale for her premiership and the mandate on which she was elected.
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This is no U-turn – it’s a car crash
Liz Truss remains on autopilot, insisting her low-tax assumption is correct, and that speed and miscommunication caused the turmoil.
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The shortest-serving chancellors in British history
Kwasi Kwarteng has become the second-shortest serving chancellor in postwar history after the Conservatives’ Iain Macleod who died in office.
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Liz Truss sacks Kwasi Kwarteng – will she be next to go?
Jeremy Hunt takes over from Kwarteng, who becomes the second shortest-serving Chancellor in history.
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Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s ideology is colliding with reality
The question now is how much economic damage is done before the Prime Minister succumbs to the inevitable.
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Will Kwasi Kwarteng’s resignation be the price of Liz Truss’s survival?
Many Tory MPs believe the Prime Minister will be forced to sacrifice her ideological soulmate.
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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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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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The Conservatives’ Birmingham conference: more Speaky Blunders than Peaky Blinders
Your weekly dose of political gossip.
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What could Liz Truss possibly say now?
The Prime Minister would be truly reckless to use her Conservative conference speech to triple down on her current plans.
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How Liz Truss crashed to earth
By waging a culture war against reality, the government has made the UK economy one of the most unstable in…
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Would Liz Truss abolish inheritance tax?
Liz Truss’s chief economic adviser, Matthew Sinclair, is a vociferous opponent of the UK’s most substantial wealth tax.
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“We get it”: even the government uses the hollow language of corporate branding
Kwasi Kwarteng’s U-turn message affects a humanity and compassion that isn’t really there.
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From the NS archive: The Major/Lamont relationship
4 October 1999: The relationship between prime minister and chancellor of the Exchequer must be one of mutual trust.
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How long will Kwasi Kwarteng last?
The intellectually confident Chancellor will rely on his own instincts rather than economic advisers. But that may be his downfall.
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History shows why the Tories have become addicted to regicide
MPs have learned that if things aren’t going well, there’s always the nuclear option. And once you start, it’s hard…
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What drives Liz Truss? The people and ideas behind the PM’s economics – Audio Long Reads
A deep history of Britain’s most radical – or reckless – economic experiment in 40 years.
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The first stirrings of rebellion against Liz Truss
The riotous market response to the mini-Budget has, for some Tory MPs, destroyed the PM’s authority as party leader.
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