People in Wales are utterly dismayed by Liz Truss' 'shambolic' performance as Prime Minister "They couldn't run a booze up in a brewery!" Wales Online · Oct 17, 2022
Liz Truss holds crunch No10 meeting with Cabinet as she faces calls to resign from five Tory MPs Mss Truss swerved a House of Commons grilling on her decision to sack Kwasi Kwarteng Evening Standard · Oct 17, 2022
No 10 chief of staff accompanied Libyan militiaman to Foreign Office meeting Exclusive: Mark Fullbrook said to have acted as Fathi Bashagha’s PR adviser, as officials were lobbied on foreign policy The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2022
‘Hunt’s running the show’: the day power drained away from Liz Truss Truss’s decline from shiny new prime minister to leader in name only continues, the last 24 hours underlining just how weak she is The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2022
‘A case of when, not if’ Tories oust Truss amid plotting British Prime Minister Liz Truss is trying to rescue her premiership after the tax cut debacle caused a fiscal crisis and gave Labour a gargantuan polling lead over her Conservatives. But after that calamitous start, analysts doubt the Tory Party will keep Truss in power for long, even if it… France 24 · Oct 17, 2022
Liz Truss mounts fightback as she 'finally says sorry' to furious Tory MPs The Prime Minister's new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt also said he believed Ms Truss will still be in No10 at Christmas as he urged Conservative backbenchers to 'give her a chance' Daily Mirror · Oct 17, 2022
Paul Bongiorno: A bread-and-butter budget with no hundreds and thousands Treasurer Jim Chalmers started it and Infrastructure Minister Catherine King joined the chorus telling us about “a bread-and-butter budget”. The New Daily · Oct 17, 2022
Jeremy Hunt shreds Truss’s economic plans in astounding U-turn on tax New chancellor tells Commons there will be tax rises and spending cuts, as PM dodges urgent question The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2022
Up was down, night was day. And was the prime minister OK? Librium Liz appeared for a brief, silent cameo in the Commons as her captors, Jeremy Hunt and Penny Mordaunt, held court The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2022
Tories would be wiped out if election held tomorrow, veteran MP warns 'We'd be a smaller party than the Scottish National Party' Wales Online · Oct 17, 2022
Liz Truss looked 'anxious' and as if she'd 'been punched' in 'unreal' Commons appearance Liz Truss looked as nervous as someone who had been "physically punched" after she snuck into the House of Commons and sat silent in the chamber for 29 minutes as her colleague was grilled over the Government's "grotesque chaos" Daily Mirror · Oct 17, 2022
The dismantling of Trussonomics: PM’s last redoubt bites the dust Liz Truss’s one remaining ‘growth-fuelled’ policy, the energy price guarantee, failed to survive Jeremy Hunt’s brutal cull The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2022
Biden doesn’t regret calling Liz Truss tax cuts ‘mistake’ after recent criticism of plan ‘I wasn’t the only one that thought it was a mistake,’ Mr Biden said over the weekend The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022
Who are the economic experts appointed to Jeremy Hunt’s new advisory panel? Four advisers, including George Osborne’s ex-chief of staff, named, with chancellor seeking to repair damage from mini-budget The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2022
The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022 Labour’s Reeves warns the ‘damage has been done’ despite ‘humiliating U-turns’ Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said Prime Minister Liz Truss has ‘no authority, no credibility, no plan for growth’.
The National (Scotland) · Oct 17, 2022 Latest poll shows Tories losing more than 300 seats at next General Election A NEW poll has shown that the Conservative party could lose more than 300 seats if a General Election were held tomorrow.
The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022 Liz Truss U-turn will send taxes to highest levels since 1950s But economists warn more pain yet to come with spending cuts
Daily Mirror · Oct 17, 2022 Jeremy Hunt hints pensions triple lock under threat as he tears up Liz Truss's plans Chancellor Jeremy Hunt refused to commit that the state pension would rise in line with inflation in April as planned during a grilling by MPs over the Government dramatic economic U-turn
Evening Standard · Oct 17, 2022 Ministers urged to publish health disparities white paper to reduce child poverty Over 1,000 child health professionals have written to Liz Truss urging her to speed up publication of the white paper
The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2022 The Guardian view on Liz Truss’s U-turn: a fading premiership won’t be missed Editorial: After a budget reversal, the prime minister is sticking with her party – the trouble is, it’s not sticking with her
The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2022 Average energy bill forecast to hit £4,347 after Truss U-turn on support Move to reduce duration of help from two years to six months could mean financial cliff edge for millions in April, charities warn
The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2022 With the energy price climbdown, Liz Truss has probably sealed her own fate It’s unclear why the PM would stay in office now; Hunt has become the face of change and Mordaunt made smart moves in her place
Evening Standard · Oct 17, 2022 Liz Truss meeting with Graham Brady when she swerved Commons grilling on Kwasi Kwarteng The Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt stood in for the Prime Minister to answer questions from the opposition
Daily Record · Oct 17, 2022 Monday headlines: Scots mum's hair gives away crime and cuffed prisoner escapes Here are the main headlines on the Daily Record website today.
The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022 Winners and losers from Jeremy Hunt’s mini-Budget U-turn Chancellor announces measures he says will bring in £32bn a year for the Treasury