‘Here for the long haul’ – Reeves launches fightback following market troubles The Chancellor said she was not going to let her critics “get me down” as she rebuffed their attacks. Evening Standard · Jan 17, 2025
KemiKaze’s ‘relaunch’ speech reveals a Tory leader already out of ideas Kemi Badenoch says she’s sorry not sorry for the mess left by 14 years of the Tories, but offers no clue of how to dig us out of it The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2025
What the Romans did for us at school Brief letters: Latin lover | Liz Truss | York Minster | Mispronounced surnames | Ryanair | Frank Auerbach The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2025
Trump, Truss and the age of vaulting ambition Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th president of the United States of America will be a moment of supreme vindication for him. After being convicted in the New York courts and fighting a ferocious election campaign, during which his opponent declared that “we’re not going back”, well, here we are. The Conversation · Jan 16, 2025
Labour 'doubling down' on Tories' mistakes on Brexit, Kemi Badenoch says THE Tories made mistakes in office – including in their handling of Brexit – and Labour are now “doubling down” on them, Kemi Badenoch has… The National (Scotland) · Jan 16, 2025
Orwell’s coin, brightest stars and lynx on the loose – take the Thursday quiz Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare? The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2025
Liz Truss is long gone from Downing Street – but zombie economics lives on Labour’s panicked reaction to economic turbulence is to promise ‘ruthless’ cuts. That’s not an intelligent answer, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2025
Miliband blasts Farage and Tories for turning net zero into a ‘culture war’ The energy secretary appealed for cross-party unity on net zero just hours after it was revealed Nigel Farage and Liz Truss attended the launch of a climate change denying lobby group The Independent UK · Jan 15, 2025
Tories are ‘snowflakes’ and Truss on ‘bizarre quest to cancel’ PM – Phillipson Sir Keir Starmer also referred to Liz Truss’ cease and desist letter against him and said it was ‘crashing the economy that damaged her reputation’. Evening Standard · Jan 15, 2025
OPINION - Unshackle London and the capital will drag Britain out of stagflation We may not be in recession...yet but the markets have made up their own minds about prospects for the UK Evening Standard · Jan 15, 2025
What is the Heartland Institute? Inside the climate change denying think tank supported by Nigel Farage The US-based lobby group has made extreme statements sceptical of climate change - and illustrated their point with pictures of the Unabomber The Independent UK · Jan 15, 2025
Nigel Farage and Liz Truss attend launch of climate denial group led by ex-Ukip head The group boasts that it is ‘the world’s most prominent think tank supporting scepticism about man-made climate change’ The Independent UK · Jan 15, 2025
Labour MPs call Rachel Reeves 'the temp' and compare her to Liz Truss RACHEL Reeves is being compared to Liz Truss and called a “temp” by her own Labour colleagues ... The National (Scotland) · Jan 15, 2025
Farage and Truss attend UK launch of US climate denial group British arm of Heartland, which has taken fossil and Republican funding, to be led by ex-Ukip head Lois Perry The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2025
The Guardian - UK · Jan 14, 2025 It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing Brief letters: Jazz recordings | Liz Truss | Legal lettuce | Learning Latin | Hwyl and hygge
Evening Standard · Jan 14, 2025 Rachel Reeves faces questions over future in Hamlet-inspired Tory attack The Chancellor insisted leadership is ‘not about ducking these challenges’ as she defended her handling of the economy.
The National (Scotland) · Jan 14, 2025 Humiliation for Labour as Rachel Reeves gets Liz Truss 'lettuce' treatment RACHEL Reeves’s fortunes have gone from bad to worse – with the Chancellor getting the potentially fatal lettuce treatment.
Evening Standard · Jan 13, 2025 Pension schemes 'can cope' with Pound's fall and UK borrowing cost rise as it's no Truss 'mini-budget' crisis Sterling fell to a fresh 14-month low on Monday
Evening Standard · Jan 13, 2025 Mortgage rates edge up after Government borrowing costs soar and Pound falls But they are not rising as sharply as after Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s 2022 ‘mini-Budget’
The Guardian - UK · Jan 13, 2025 Liz Truss says UK will fail unless British media outlets are ‘fixed’ Former PM says outlets not focused on important issues such as ‘grooming gang scandal’ highlighted by Elon Musk
Evening Standard · Jan 13, 2025 Pressure mounts on Reeves as Starmer refuses to guarantee future of her job Sir Keir Starmer declined to say the Chancellor would remain in post until the election.
The Independent UK · Jan 13, 2025 Former justice secretary Jack Straw says right to choose jury trial lets defendants ‘game’ courts The Labour grandee called for the government to scrap the right to a jury trial for ‘either way’ mid-level offences amid soaring court backlogs
Evening Standard · Jan 13, 2025 Chancellor facing tough questions over fiscal rules as market woes deepen Chancellor Rachel Reeves said over the weekend that her fiscal rules were ‘non-negotiable’.
The Independent UK · Jan 13, 2025 Reeves returns from China to new crisis in top UK business confidence amid economic woes A survey by Deloitte of the chief finance officers of major companies has revealed that business confidence is at one of its lowest points since the Covid-19 pandemic
The Guardian - UK · Jan 12, 2025 How to call out our pantomime ex-PM Brief letters: Truss’s letter | Trump’s heart | Greenland invasion | Gypsy tart | Missing lynx | Five-star jazz