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Autumn statement 2022: this budget may not cause Truss-level chaos but it could still provoke markets

Liz Truss’s short-lived government presided over an even shorter-lived economic experiment in “Trussonomics”. As investors responded to September’s mini-budget by demanding higher interest premiums to purchase UK debt, the government was unable to execute its plans. Truss was reduced to a helpless bystander as her new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, started…

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Resignation honours: what are they, why are they so controversial and can the system ever be changed?

Time for a quick quiz. What links Nadine Dorries, lockdown-rule-flouting London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey and David Ross, a Tory donor embroiled in a scandal after funding a prime ministerial holiday to Mustique. If you answered, “They are all rumoured to appear on Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list,” give yourself…

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Rishi Sunak's car comes with a secret escape hatch

It also has a self-healing fuel tank and a tamper-proof exhaust

Wales Online

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Harold Wilson drama is first feature film to be shot in Commons chamber

It’s a Sin actor Shaun Dooley plays former PM in cold war thriller The Ghost of Harold Wilson

The Guardian - UK

Who were the youngest ever prime ministers as Rishi Sunak takes over at 42?

The title of youngest ever PM belongs to William Pitt the Younger, who was just 24 in 1783

Evening Standard

UK gets fifth prime minister in just over six years

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

The Independent UK

How many times can someone be Prime Minister – and how long can they be in office?

Disgraced Boris Johnson could join the Conservative Party leadership contest once again after Liz Truss threw in the towel just 44 days after she took over as prime minister

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Churchill, Gladstone, Johnson? The prime ministers who made comebacks after leaving Downing Street

Winston Churchill returned to No 10 in 1951 after a period in opposition

The Independent UK

Five prime ministers in six years - the fastest turnover in almost a century

Liz Truss is the shortest ever serving PM after just 45 days in office

Wales Online

UK set for fifth prime minister in just over six years

The urnover of prime ministers has sped up in recent decades.

The Independent UK

A short history of ‘confidence matters’ in the House of Commons

Treating routine votes as confidence matters is a rare and high-stakes tactic that was last used in 1994.

The Independent UK

UK's shortest serving prime ministers ranked as Liz Truss in danger of topping them all

The current holder of the dubious honour is George Canning, who was in office for just 119 days before dying of tuberculosis - but Truss has a long way to go to pass him

Daily Mirror

15 things people from Wirral can't help but point out to visitors

How many of these facts about Wirral have you found yourself telling visitors?

Liverpool Echo

Society artist Stephen Ward felt he was ‘being assassinated’ in Profumo scandal

Newly-released MI5 files give an insight into Ward’s state of mind, in a situation where some have claimed he was made a scapegoat.

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The Guardian - UK

Harold Wilson: The Winner by Nick Thomas-Symonds review – a second look at the victorious Labour leader

History has not always looked kindly on Wilson, but this elegantly written biography by a Labour MP celebrates him as a successful prime minister and the architect of social reform

The Guardian - UK

So which decade was better? Battle of the 1960s v the 1980s

Pattie Boyd, face of the swinging 60s, last week said that, in truth, the 80s were better. We asked two Observer writers who grew up in those decades to fight it out…

The Guardian - UK

Amsterdam review – turn of the screwball in David O Russell’s starry muddle

Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington bring laughs to a exhaustingly wacky riff on a real-life fascist conspiracy in 1930s New York

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Keir Starmer’s speech: starting to stand for something

Editorial: The Tories have created a deeply unequal country with failing services. The Labour leader’s conference address set out a vision of a different state

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Will Keir Starmer lead Labour back into government? The view from the party conference in Liverpool

Keir Starmer, the next British prime minister? A cautiously optimistic mood prevails at this year’s Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Yet hope is tempered with fear, befitting a party that has contrived to lose eight of the last 11 general elections.

Daily Mirror

'My 50th year at the Labour conference - and for my sins I will be back again'

This is the beating heart of honest, awkward, idealistic, funny, cynical, romantic British politics, writes Paul Routledge as he recalls half a century of long speeches, block votes and late nights drinking

The Guardian - UK

A look back to 1972, the last time tax cuts so big were brought in

At the time of Anthony Barber’s ‘dash for growth’ budget, a pint of milk cost 6p, Nilsson was top of the charts and Brian Clough was in his heyday at Derby County

Bangkok Post

It all began with a soapy TV 'moustache'

With Liz Truss becoming the 56th British prime minister, it got me thinking about how many PMs there have been in my lifetime. The answer is 16, going back to Clement Atlee, which is a bit scary. In fact, while I was still residing in the UK there were only…

The Guardian - US

Uju Anya on the Queen, Jeff Bezos and the family history behind her tweet

The professor sparked outrage when she wished the queen a painful death. She tells the Guardian about the UK’s role in the ‘slaughter’ her mother fled

Evening Standard

The reign of Charles III begins in circumstances much like those of 1952

Like the start of his mother’s reign all those years ago, King Charles III’s reign has begun in the middle of a war. Today, it is the war in Ukraine. In February 1952, it was the Korean War.

Wales Online

The huge changes Wales has gone through during the Queen’s 70 years on the throne

As the longest reigning British monarch, the Queen saw a huge number of significant historical events

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