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Winter of discontent: how similar is today's situation?

The UK government is battening down the hatches for a wave of strikes in December and January. Railway workers, nurses, ambulance workers, civil servants and postal staff are all set to take industrial action in the coming weeks in protest at wages not keeping up with inflation, with teachers’ and…

The Conversation · Dec 2, 2022

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

Manchester Evening News · Oct 20, 2022

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 · Oct 19, 2022

Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss? Whoever wins faces a bleak economic outlook

Inflation and a cost of living crisis mean the new PM will have little time to produce a feelgood factor

The Guardian - UK · Jul 24, 2022

‘Stuff your 5%!’ Is the UK facing a summer of discontent – and what can we learn from the winter of 1979?

Transport workers, barristers, doctors, teachers, nurses, civil servants: if they haven’t yet voted to strike, they’re likely to do so. The last time anything like this happened, it brought down the government …

The Guardian - UK · Jul 20, 2022

The Tories profited from Labour ‘chaos’ in the 1970s. Can Starmer do the same now?

Labour must hammer the message home that these are the worst of times, and pin the blame squarely on Boris Johnson, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK · Apr 22, 2022