Senior Tories fear Johnson and Truss will sabotage Sunak’s election campaign Concerns that vicious circle of party ill-discipline is undermining the PM’s ability to restore order The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2024
Liz Truss's husband feared her stint as prime minister 'would end in tears', new book reveals Former Tory leader makes admission in new book, Ten Years to Save the West Evening Standard · Apr 13, 2024
Liz Truss book says husband predicted premiership ‘would all end in tears’ Short-lived PM also says she anticipated mini-budget ‘turbulence’ and compares herself to Brian Clough The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2024
Digested week: dull quake anecdotes and a boring eclipse of the sun The only exciting part was the number of people who didn’t wear protective eyewear. Plus: Liz Truss fails to ‘pace herself’ The Guardian - UK · Apr 12, 2024
Conservatives likely to take 'pasting' at general election, says ex Tory chancellor Philip Hammond The Conservatives will likely “take a pasting” at the general election, former Tory chancellor Philip Hammond conceded on Thursday. Evening Standard · Apr 11, 2024
OPINION - Rishi Sunak, Adidas Sambas and the art of the political apology Rishi Sunak has said sorry. This recantation didn't quite match the magnitude of Keith Joseph's 1974 apology for the Conservatives Party's role in the post-war consensus or Tony Blair's expression of regret over Britain's role during the Irish potato famine. But it is parliamentary recess and the pickings are slim. Evening Standard · Apr 10, 2024
Liz Truss says Queen Elizabeth told her to 'pace herself' and admits she didn't listen Former PM says monarch’s death came as ‘profound shock’ in new memoir Ten Years To Save The West Evening Standard · Apr 9, 2024
Liz Truss says in book queen told her to ‘pace yourself’, admits she didn’t listen Ex-prime minister, who lasted just 49 days, says she struggled to cope with death of monarch and self-inflicted economic disaster The Guardian - US · Apr 9, 2024
Five Great Reads: questions I want answered Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey The Guardian - AU · Apr 5, 2024
Donald Trump delivers a message at Nigel Farage's birthday party Former prime minister Liz Truss also made an appearance Evening Standard · Apr 4, 2024
UK stock market does best under Conservative Prime Minister — unless it's Liz Truss The figures will offer some relief to Rishi Sunak and colleagues ahead of an election this year Evening Standard · Apr 3, 2024
April Fool’s day: can you spot the news fakes? Take our quiz Take our fun test to see how good you are a spotting the fake news hidden among the real headlines The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2024
‘She still carries an aura of spectacular failure’: why hasn’t Liz Truss gone away? Her 49 days in power ended in catastrophe, yet the shortest serving prime minister in British history is back, launching a new conservative movement with global ambitions. You just can’t keep a bad politician down … The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2024
Who's in the 'deep state'? Rishi Sunak says ask Liz Truss PM tells MPs: ‘I probably wouldn't tell you if I was though, would I?’ Evening Standard · Mar 26, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Mar 26, 2024 Bank of England policymaker says markets pricing in too many rate cuts; Co-op Bank to cut 400 jobs –as it happened Catherine Mann says market pricing is helping the central bank do its work in bringing borrowing rates down
The Guardian - UK · Mar 24, 2024 Like Barbie, there are many Rishis. Which is the real Sunak is beyond even his supporters’ grasp Conservative MPs are being asked to unite behind their leader but first the prime minister has to decide who he wants to be
Evening Standard · Mar 22, 2024 Truss memoir receives pocket money advance The 49-day PM’s publishers seem to lack confidence in her upcoming book
International Business Times UK · Mar 21, 2024 From Photoshop To 'You Don't Look Like An MP', Female Politicians Are Still Judged On Their Appearance For years, female politicians have been criticised by the public for their wardrobe. The trend has continued.
Evening Standard · Mar 18, 2024 OPINION - Rishi Sunak is safe – so long as Tory plotters cannot agree on a unity candidate Should Australia drop Mitchell Starc? It doesn't matter whether you hold strong views on the fast bowler's inability to take wickets with the old ball, or whether you've never heard of the bloke. The real question is this: would his replacement be better or worse?
The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2024 Post-2019 UK cabinet ministers last average of eight months, study finds Exclusive: Study compares electoral systems, with proportional representation shown not to be as volatile as critics say
The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2024 Britain is great in a crisis, but useless in a slump. Just take a look at the NHS Since we all rallied round to support it during Covid the situation has become ever more dire
The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2024 ‘Our chances? Zero – and getting worse’: inside a Tory death spiral Frank Hester, Lee Anderson, an unpopular budget … as the catalogue of Conservative disasters piles up, discipline seems to be breaking down, and any hope of election victory fading
The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2024 Conservatives slam ‘bonkers’ plot to topple Rishi Sunak before election Senior Tories have rallied around the PM amid claims that some party MPs are plotting to replace him with Penny Mordaunt
The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2024 ‘I’m embarrassed to rely on my parents’: the downside of handouts from the ‘bank of mum and dad’ First-time buyers in the UK, rather than resenting people who are better off, are concerned about how challenging it is to get on the property ladder
Evening Standard · Mar 13, 2024 Sadiq Khan: London home buyers still facing £200 higher mortgage costs since Liz Truss's mini-budget The Treasury said high interest rates are being seen ‘across the developed world’ and the UK is ‘no different’