Why are right-wingers suddenly excited about diversity?
The same people who rail against wokery can't stop talking about the ethnicities of the new cabinet.
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Liz Truss and the cost of winning
In her campaign, she told party members what they wanted to hear. The new prime minister’s troubles are only just…
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It’s out with the old – as toadying Tories try to get in with the new
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Leader: The cold reality of Trussonomics
Our new prime minister ignores the question of why there are numerous economies that are not only more equal than…
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The gods are not smiling on Liz Truss
Any illusions about gravitas were quickly scuppered by the new Prime Minister’s first speech.
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Does Liz Truss have anything to say?
The Prime Minister’s first speech in office could have been generated by a cliché machine.
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Liz Truss’s problems start now
The incoming PM faces a nation on the brink and a Labour Party readying itself for her arrival.
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Liz Truss’s victory speech was crushingly banal
The crowd waited for details, but none came – so they applauded anyway.
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What could Liz Truss’s cabinet look like?
Her administration will be defined by who is chosen to lead the economy, health service, education and defence.
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Liz Truss is ready for Prime Minister’s Questions – as long as they’re from Vogue
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Don’t fall for the revisionism – Boris Johnson was a catastrophe for Britain
In three years he almost destroyed the country. Could the Conservatives really be mad or desperate enough to give this…
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The coming economic storm
As inflation reaches a 40-year high and with Britain facing a punishing recession, the Conservative leadership contenders have failed to…
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Does Keir Starmer’s plan to freeze energy bills go far enough?
The Labour leader’s intervention has been welcomed, but critics on the left argue firms should be nationalised, not bailed out.
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How can Boris Johnson and Nadhim Zahawi be on holiday at a time like this?
You'd expect nothing less from the PM and his Chancellor as the economy slips into crisis.
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Deregulation will worsen the climate crisis – and Boris Johnson knows it
Johnson’s urging of his successor to scrap rules protecting the planet in his last PMQs was irresponsible and immature.
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Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are struggling to convince Red Wall and Blue Wall voters
The remaining leadership candidates do not address the concerns of focus groups – but neither does Keir Starmer.
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Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak begin their summer of hustings
The Foreign Secretary highlights her loyalty to Boris Johnson, while Sunak calls Truss’s fiscal vision “fantasy economics”.
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“Brexit is the biggest act of self-harm a nation could take”: the CEO of Velux
David Briggs on why sustainability and the EU make good business sense.
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Rishi Sunak will face two opponents in the Tory leadership contest: Liz Truss and Boris Johnson
The Prime Minister and his allies will use the Tory leadership contest to cast the former chancellor as a traitor.
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Tory leadership candidates – don’t go back on levelling up
The next prime minister should go big on the inequality Britain cares about most.
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