Liz Truss news – live: 55% of Tories want PM to resign as popularity nosedives Boris Johnson is members’ favoured replacement The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2022
Papers urge Tory Party to deal with ‘lame duck’ Liz Truss ‘The great office of Prime Minister was yesterday reduced to an unedifying game of ghost-hunting,’ The Sun writes in an editorial. The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2022
New 'bring back Boris' petition claims 10,000 signatures in two days Conservative Party members and supporters back bid to replace Liz Truss with previous Prime Minister Johnson, who was ousted in the summer Wales Online · Oct 18, 2022
Truss's silence speaks volumes as Hunt completes biggest U-turn in British political history Almost every aspect of Truss’s tax-busting mini-budget has been ripped up and put in the bin within three weeks. Daily Record · Oct 18, 2022
‘The ghost PM’: what the papers say about Liz Truss’s hold on power The UK newspaper front pages cover the Chancellor’s tax cut reversals as Truss’s fight for survival takes centre stage The Guardian - AU · Oct 18, 2022
What the papers say – October 18 The mastheads are consumed by the reversal of Liz Truss’s economic plans. The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2022
Ministers haven’t checked if low-tax investment zones will work, says Labour Lisa Nandy says government has no evidence to support growth claims The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022
Truss apologises for ‘mistakes’ and vows to lead Tories into next election The prime minister has been has been humiliated by a raft of U-turns Wales Online · Oct 17, 2022
Truss reflects on ‘tough’ time in No 10 and ‘painful’ sacking of ex-chancellor The Prime Minister acknowledged she has made ‘mistakes’, adding that things have not been ‘perfect’. The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022
U.K. Prime Minister Truss abandons her agenda to stem market meltdown Truss is still officially in charge, but hardly seems to be in control. Axios · Oct 17, 2022
Liz Truss apologises for ‘mistakes’ and vows to lead Tories into next election The Prime Minister said she had ‘adjusted what we’re doing’ after the Government’s fiscal plans spooked the markets. The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022
Truss sees UK vision dismantled as rivals fight for her job LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss was clinging to power on Monday after suffering the abject humiliation of being forced to U-Turn on much of the economic program she announced only last month. Tribune News Service · Oct 17, 2022
Humiliated Liz Truss sits in silence amid U-turn meltdown as Tories tell her to go In one of the biggest U-turns in political history, the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt scrapped almost all of the mini-Budget, which has plunged the economy into crisis Daily Mirror · Oct 17, 2022
Reuters · Oct 17, 2022 UK's Truss: 'Sorry' for the mistakes, but 'I'm sticking around' Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss apologised for "mistakes" in her programme that caused investor confidence to evaporate and her poll ratings to plunge before nearly all of it was finally shredded on Monday, but said she would not step down.
The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022 UK workers facing ‘two decades of lost living standards’, union boss warns ‘See you in court,’ Frances O’Grady is to warn ministers over legal moves to undermine strikes
Daily Mirror · Oct 17, 2022 'Not since the Suez Crisis has a British Prime Minister been so humiliated' Liz Truss was forced to watch in silence as Jeremy Hunt tore up her disastrous mini-budget today, with the PM's credibility so low a Cabinet minister had to deny she was hiding under a desk
Daily Record · Oct 17, 2022 Liz Truss apologises for 'mistakes' and pledges to lead Tories into next general election The Prime Minister is battling to save her premiership after her economic agenda was left in tatters by the dismantling of her former chancellor's landmark mini-budget.
Evening Standard · Oct 17, 2022 Liz Truss says ‘sorry for the mistakes that have been made’ following mini-budget debacle Liz Truss has apologised for her “mistakes” in hatching a mini-budget which sent markets into turmoil and which has now largely been binned in a dramatic U-turn.
The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022 Liz Truss insists she will lead Tories into the next general election after budget U-turns Prime minister says she stands by her economic philosophy but says she is sorry for going too fast
Manchester Evening News · Oct 17, 2022 Prime Minister Liz Truss apologises for ‘mistakes’ as she vows to lead Tories into next election Truss is still battling to save her premiership after admitting she went 'too far and too fast' to tackle energy bills and high taxes
Daily Mirror · Oct 17, 2022 Liz Truss finally breaks silence to say sorry and she WILL lead Tories to next election Liz Truss has apologised for her mistakes after her new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt today announced a U-turn on her disastrous mini-budget, which sent the markets into turmoil
Manchester Evening News · Oct 17, 2022 Liz Truss will 'still be Prime Minister at Christmas' despite Tory rebellion, predicts Jeremy Hunt The Chancellor of the Exchequer admitted that there were 'mistakes' in the mini budget
The Conversation · Oct 17, 2022 Liz Truss: what I told European colleagues when they asked me what on Earth is going on in British politics The Casino de Montbenon in Lausanne, Switzerland would make a perfect setting for a James Bond film. Located in magnificent gardens and overlooking Lake Geneva and the Alps, criminals and villains could make their entry or escape by motorboat or helicopter. The building itself is as beautiful as it is…
The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022 Liz Truss ‘laughed’ when she sacked Johnny Mercer from cabinet Former minister says prime minister has abandoned Conservative values