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A year after Truss’s demolition job, the UK is still in a hole

Her worst ideas were reversed, but today’s economy is similarly floundering, as Sunak prepares for his own autumn budget

The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2023

‘We lost about £100,000’: one year on, Britons count cost of the mini-budget

People who lost money for care home fees and others facing rocketing mortgage costs after Truss’s gambit share their stories

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2023

‘Wishful thinking’ for Sunak to say UK on course to meet emissions targets, says Climate Change Committee boss – as it happened

Climate Change Committee head says ‘we’ve moved backwards’ after PM defends decision to delay ban on selling new petrol and diesel cars

The Guardian - UK · Sep 21, 2023

Labour demand Sunak block Liz Truss’s resignation honours

Sunak should not reward those ‘who crashed the economy’, Labour said

The Independent UK · Sep 17, 2023

Unfair to call my mini-budget tax cuts unfunded, Truss to claim

The former PM will urge the Government to cut taxes, shrink welfare spending and raise the retirement age in a speech explaining her economic vision.

The Independent UK · Sep 17, 2023

A year on from Liz Truss’s mini-budget, the UK economy is still stuck in first gear

Truss was right in saying Britain needed economic growth – where she was badly wrong was in her prescription

The Guardian - UK · Sep 17, 2023

Kwarteng turns on Truss and says she was ‘not wired’ to be PM

Radical ‘full Estonia’ 20 per cent flat tax was considered for Truss and Kwarteng’s disastrous mini-Budget

The Independent UK · Sep 17, 2023

Liz Truss mini-Budget ‘left homeowners £300bn worse off’

Sunak has failed to turn around damage done by predecessor’s ‘casino economics’, says Labour

The Independent UK · Sep 16, 2023

Actor Brian Cox: put ‘senile’ Donald Trump in a nice little home

Cox also railed against ‘vicious’ cancel culture

Evening Standard · Sep 6, 2023

‘She’s totally lost it’: inside story of the unravelling of Liz Truss’s premiership

Approaching one year on from the start of her tenure, a look back on how it all fell apart within 49 days

The Guardian - UK · Sep 1, 2023