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Majority of Sunak’s Cabinet educated at fee-paying schools

Analysis shows only 23% went to a comprehensive school, while 13% attended a grammar.

The Independent UK

Tories launch desperate 'hypocrite' attack on Nicola Sturgeon over election call

THE Scottish Tories, lost for attack lines amid the omnishambles at Westminster, have launched yet another empty attack on the First Minister. Who…

The National (Scotland)

UK gets fifth prime minister in just over six years

The turnover of prime ministers has speeded up in recent decades.

The Independent UK

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Rishi Sunak now faces an economic battle he may not get credit for winning

Rishi Sunak is set to be our new Prime Minister and Tory dreams and fantasies may finally be coming to an end. For political parties, such bubble-bursting can be painful. Nigel Lawson’s boom in the late Eighties was followed by a prolonged bust. The “no more boom and bust” promises…

Evening Standard

The future offers only variants on austerity? Bunk. There are ways to invest and grow

Despite the UK’s new negative credit outlook, it still has vast resources if it wants to access them

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss and life after No 10 – what might be next for outgoing Prime Minister

All former prime ministers are entitled to a maximum of £115,000 a year from a government fund, called the Public Duty Cost Allowance

Wales Online

Life after No 10 – what might be next for Liz Truss?

The PA news agency looks at some of the options available to Ms Truss following her resignation.

The Independent UK

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Starmer joins calls for Truss to decline ex-PMs’ £115,000 annual grant

Outgoing PM urged to forgo allowance amid cost of living crisis and cuts to public services

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss entitled to £115,000 of taxpayer money each year after just 44 days as PM

Liz Truss will be entitled to claim £115,000 per year from the taxpayer despite becoming the shortest-serving Prime Minister in British history.

The National (Scotland)

Liz Truss can receive £115,000 a year FOR LIFE after she quits as Prime Minister

Even though Liz Truss has become the shortest-serving PM ever, the Downing Street incumbent will still be eligible to claim from a six-figure allowance pot after she exits the famous black door

Daily Mirror

Truss resignation means UK will have seven living ex-PMs for first time

Three of the seven are under the age of 60.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss could claim an annual £115,000 from taxpayer after leaving Number 10

Ex-Prime Ministers can claim the Public Duty Cost Allowance (PDCA), worth up to £115,000 a year

Wales Online

Liz Truss becomes shortest-serving UK prime minister in history as she resigns after 45 days

Boris Johnson’s successor dethroned by backbench rebellion caused by disastrous ‘mini-Budget’

The Independent UK

Liz Truss: shortest serving prime ministers in UK history

Boris Johnson’s successor dethroned by backbench rebellion caused by disastrous ‘mini-Budget’

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Manchester Evening News

Who is the shortest-serving UK Prime Minister following the resignation of Liz Truss?

Liz Truss managed just 44 days in office before announcing her resignation

Daily Mirror

Do Prime Ministers still get a salary even after they leave office?

Even though Liz Truss has become the shortest-serving PM ever, the Downing Street incumbent will still be eligible to claim from a six-figure allowance pot after she exits the famous black door

The Independent UK

Liz Truss: Why declaring ‘I’m a fighter, not a quitter’ spells doom for politicians

Resort to fateful phrase rarely ends well

Evening Standard

Kwasi Kwarteng hits 46-year record low for Chancellors after mini-budget - poll

Exclusive: Poll shows 65 per cent adults in Britain dissatisfied with Chancellor

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The Guardian - AU

Will New Zealand’s opposition fall into the same tax trap as Liz Truss?

New Zealand and the UK both have top tax rates that raise little revenue but lie as potent political traps for parties on the right

The Guardian - UK

Wrong again! Why is Liz Truss floundering after her U-turns, while Johnson and Blair shrugged theirs off?

The PM has performed a series of screeching U-turns since entering Number 10. But is abandoning a policy always a disaster – or is there a way to get away with it?

Benzinga

Risky 'Shadow Banks' Are Still Unregulated: Are They A Threat To The UK Economy?

The Bank of England recently unpacked £65 billion ($72 billion) in an emergency measure to avoid a crash in government bond prices. Without the intervention, the U.K.’s pension funds, which rely heavily on bond holdings, would have entered default. A larger economic crisis was averted.

Daily Mirror

Six in 10 Brits oppose Liz Truss's 'out of touch' plot to cut benefits, poll shows

A vast majority of the public, and nearly half of those who voted Conservative in 2019, believe that benefits should rise in line with inflation, as Liz Truss considers a 5.4% increase which critics warn will plunge the poorest into misery

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss talks sense about thinktanks

Brief letters: Vested interest groups | Gordon Brown’s school | Politicians’ clothing choices | Truss’s lack of mandate | Growing the pie

Wales Online

Gordon Brown predicts 'national uprising' as benefits row intensifies

Failing to raise benefits in line with inflation would be 'a scar on the soul of our country', the former PM said

Wales Online

Liz Truss wrongly claims she is the first Prime Minister to attend a comprehensive school

Two other Prime Ministers attended comprehensive schools

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