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Labour pledges to strengthen economic watchdog within first 100 days

Exclusive: Changes early in expected new government intended to stop repeat of catastrophic Truss mini-budget

The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2024

Will Michael Gove do Strictly? All the rumoured next jobs for Tory MPs

They ran the country, but now they’re moving on. What’s next for Matt Hancock, Sajid Javid, Nadhim Zahawi, Dominic Raab, and the rest?

Evening Standard · Jun 7, 2024

Jeremy Hunt: My seat's on a 'knife edge' but the Conservatives will defend the Blue Wall brick by brick

EXCLUSIVE: The Chancellor said his Surrey seat is on a ‘knife edge’ as the Liberal Democrats seek to oust him

Evening Standard · May 30, 2024

Thames Water collapse could trigger Truss-style borrowing crisis, Whitehall officials fear

Exclusive: Concerns over effect on UK’s finances lead officials to believe utility should be renationalised before general election

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2024

Outgoing Tory MPs take lucrative second jobs and ‘swan off on jollies’

Sixty four Tories and four independent MPs who lost party whip plan to stand down from the Commons amid dire polling for Conservatives

The Guardian - UK · Apr 21, 2024

‘Five-year-old on acid’: Liz Truss’s Ten Years to Save the West, digested by John Crace

Sketchwriter’s take on memoir of PM who screwed up catastrophically and quickly but thinks there’s still work to do

The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2024

Ten Years to Save the West by Liz Truss review – shamelessly unrepentant

The former PM’s account of her time in office is unstoppably self-serving, petulant, and politically jejune

The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2024

Liz Truss's husband feared her stint as prime minister 'would end in tears', new book reveals

Former Tory leader makes admission in new book, Ten Years to Save the West

Evening Standard · Apr 13, 2024

Liz Truss book says husband predicted premiership ‘would all end in tears’

Short-lived PM also says she anticipated mini-budget ‘turbulence’ and compares herself to Brian Clough

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2024

Have we reached peak political podcast?

We are, barring a huge upset, about to enter an era of boring government. Good news… unless you’re one of the never-ending procession of people commentating on it. Juliana Close wonders which ones will survive

Evening Standard · Apr 7, 2024