Rachel Reeves warned up to £25bn of tax rises needed to avoid austerity Rachel Reeves’ first budget could be ‘the most consequential since at least 2010’, the IFS said The Independent UK · Oct 10, 2024
Labour needs £25bn a year in tax rises to rebuild public services, warns IFS Thinktank says tax increases in budget will be necessary even if Rachel Reeves changes fiscal rules The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2024
Rachel Reeves’s potential borrowing plan risks repeat of Truss mini-Budget meltdown, warns financial expert Downing Street dismissed the concerns as the Institute for Fiscal Studies said the prospective borrowing plan is ‘very uncertain’ The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2024
UK Conservatives narrow their leadership race to 3 as a new front-runner surges Conservative lawmakers in Britain have ejected former Security Minister Tom Tugendhat from the party leadership contest The Independent UK · Oct 8, 2024
Minister denies government in disarray despite departure of Sue Gray John Healey says Labour ‘getting on with job’ after chief of staff quit less than 100 days into new government The Guardian - UK · Oct 7, 2024
Confused and conflicted: Tory party’s future hangs in the balance after divided conference The four leadership candidates strutted around Birmingham last week like celebrities, but members seem unimpressed – and MPs think whoever wins might not even last until the next election. How do the Conservatives move forward? The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2024
Wealthy, white and rightwing: the Tory members holding the party’s future in their hands The electorate for the Conservative leadership contest likes a winner, but lately has had trouble picking one The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2024
Blue plaque erected outside east London Tesco to honour lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss Daily Star's lettuce given mock heritage plaque after outlasting Truss's premiership Evening Standard · Oct 5, 2024
Starmer defends UK ceding control of Chagos Islands amid Tory criticism PM says deal has secured future of US-UK military base as Conservative leadership hopefuls play blame game The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2024
‘Blue plaque’ at Walthamstow Tesco honours lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss Star of Daily Star’s web stunt given fake heritage mark after proving itself less perishable than Truss’s premiership The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2024
Boris Johnson’s biography still blank on government website amid pressure to include ‘sleaze and scandal’ Former Labour PM Tony Blair’s entry descibes him as having ‘enormous charisma, arguably the finest opposition leader of modern times’ The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2024
Diego Garcia blame game deepens as Liz Truss hits out at Boris Johnson for island ‘surrender’ Exclusive: Labour said they had no choice but to sign the deal because of the legal mess left by the Tories The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2024
Blame Sunak for Tory election drubbing not me, says Boris Johnson Boris Johnson believes that the Tories might have won the election this year if they had stuck with his agenda The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2024
Fibs and failures in the Tory party and beyond Letters: Jeremy Cushing on the lies that politicians are forced to tell, David Diprose on a catalogue of failure in British political leadership, plus letters on Kemi Badenoch and Liz Truss The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2024
The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2024 Boris Johnson’s Unleashed: A memoir that’s twisted, sour and full of yet more lies In his shameless and predictable 772-page account of events, the former PM forgoes the truth to paint a preposterous picture of himself as a man of destiny, too good for his own good
The National (Scotland) · Oct 3, 2024 Tory MSPs fume as John Swinney brings up new leader's Liz Truss support TORY MSPs reacted with fury as their new leader was slammed for his support for the “discredited” former prime minister Liz Truss at his first…
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2024 Cursed ships, unlucky turkeys and a chainsaw incident – take the Thursday quiz Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2024 The Tories are deluded to think they’ll be back in power in 2029. Here are three economic reasons why Labour’s squandering of its political capital has given hope to the right. But Britain’s voters want a leftwing agenda, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2024 ‘Very serious’: Bank of England governor warns of Middle East oil shock risk Exclusive: Andrew Bailey also hints at ‘more aggressive’ path for cutting interest rates if inflation news stays positive
The National (Scotland) · Oct 3, 2024 Labour warned cuts plans are 'Liz Truss levels of economic vandalism' LABOUR have been warned their plans to cut billions from government budgets are “Liz Truss levels of economic vandalism”.
Top News · Oct 2, 2024 Conservative Party Leadership Race Heats Up In Birmingham Four contenders vie for Conservative Party leadership post-election loss, facing challenges and lukewarm public interest in Birmingham conference.
The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2024 James Cleverly refuses to disown Truss tax chaos three times The Tory leadership contender declined to distance himself from Liz Truss’ disastrous economic policies
The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2024 Does colour-coding your books make you organised – or a superficial illiterate? Liz Truss may have given the practice a bad name, but there’s a lot to be said for the art of aesthetically arranging your literature, argues Ralph Jones
The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2024 Badenoch, Cleverly, Jenrick, Tugendhat: four ways for the Tories to reach the same wilderness Each behaves as if they are vying to be PM when the reality is years in opposition, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
The Independent UK · Oct 1, 2024 Half of Tory members want party to merge with Reform, poll for Liz Truss’s think tank reveals The claims by the rightwing think tank come as Jacob Rees-Mogg calls for the Tories to strike an electoral pact with Reform