Sunak urged to act against Truss for spreading rightwing conspiracy theories Ex-PM appears with former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and talks of ‘deep state’ ousting her from power The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2024
‘Mentality of dictators’: Republican convert Tulsi Gabbard takes aim at former party at CPAC Ex-Democratic congresswoman praised Trump and turned on former friend Biden, saying he would ‘crumble’ under pressure The Guardian - US · Feb 23, 2024
‘We need a bigger bazooka’: Liz Truss takes aim at left ‘deep state’ at CPAC Hawking a book to many empty seats, former UK prime minister spoke at Maryland’s Conservative Political Action Conference The Guardian - US · Feb 22, 2024
Boris Johnson praises Liz Truss's new book on how to save the West The two ex-PMs are making headlines in America this week Evening Standard · Feb 22, 2024
Lost instruments, logic gates and lots and lots of drunkonyms – take the Thursday quiz Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare? The Guardian - UK · Feb 22, 2024
Britain’s ‘deep state’ thwarted my plans, Liz Truss tells US far-right summit Former Conservative PM, whose tenure lasted 50 days, tells CPAC she fell victim to UK’s ‘establishment … its bureaucrats and lawyers’ The Guardian - US · Feb 22, 2024
OPINION - Welcome to the Republican Hunger Games: a circus for the madmen and creeps desperate to be Trump's vice-president Slow clap for former prime minister Liz Truss, who is in Washington tomorrow to deliver a speech on “Taking back our parties” at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The conference is often a raucous affair, but this week’s jamboree in the US capital will be a full-on Make… Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2024
Hugh Janus and Cory Tunt join Liz Truss's Popular Conservatism group Pranksters took advantage of a website glitch Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2024
‘Morally bankrupt’: Tories may pay price for ignoring farmers Rishi Sunak’s charm offensive at NFU conference fails to win over rural voters, but Labour also faces scepticism The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2024
Keir Starmer is the latest politician to land a Vogue magazine shoot – but style and politics don’t always mix As the Labour leader poses for an ‘ultimate fashion issue’, some ask if high-fashion spreads focus differently on female politicians than their male peers The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2024
Standing down: who are the MPs calling time before the next UK election? Ninety MPs, including 14 former secretaries of state, have said they will not be standing for re-election in 2024 The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2024
Two Labour wins, a Reform party surge and a dip into Rishession: never doubt Sunak’s strategy is going to plan The PM will make light of Labour’s byelection victories. And those who want him out will plot using their ‘grid of shit’, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2024
Liz Truss' PopCon and the UK's strangest (yet powerful) think tanks Now that Liz Truss has launched her PopCon ‘movement’, it is worth looking at other non-governmental organisations ‘helping’ the parties with policy advise and research — just what are these think tanks up to? Evening Standard · Feb 13, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Feb 10, 2024 Disastrous Truss budget forced UK councils to take out massive 50-year loans at soaring rates Debt Management Office figures show lasting impact of mini-budget that spooked financial markets, says Labour’s Angela Rayner
The Guardian - UK · Feb 10, 2024 Mhairi Fraser: the rising Tory force who was bowled over by Trump She starred at PopCon with a tirade against Covid lockdowns, and she may shape the Conservatives’ post-Sunak trajectory
The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024 Kemi Badenoch says death threats intensified after Nadine Dorries book Business secretary says conspiracy theory about ‘plotters’ dangerous in hands of violent, unbalanced people
The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024 Trump is too old and incited a coup. Biden is too old and mixes up names. America, how to choose? The special counsel has put the president’s memory in the spotlight, but if we’re talking about amnesia: 6 January, anyone?, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024 Starmer’s £28bn green plan was bungled but Labour still has bold hopes for the country – and the planet Even if pared back, the party still has the only real growth policy in town, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024 Dropping of £28bn pledge marks a shift in Reeves’s entire economic philosophy Rachel Reeves had promised to spend big to be Britain’s first green chancellor. Now she wants to spend as little public money as possible
The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024 Liz Truss’s fantastic Game of Thrones Brief letters: Popular Conservatives | Unpopular Conservatives | Curtain-twitching | Scottish niksen | Doing nothing
The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024 Labour cuts £28bn green investment pledge by half Keir Starmer announces party will now spend less than £15bn on green projects a year if it wins election
The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024 How Labour ditched its flagship £28bn green investment pledge Two and a half years after it was announced, the policy is being dropped. Here is a timeline of key moments along the way
The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024 Lost dogs, lost titles and something harder than diamond – take the Thursday quiz Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?
The Guardian - UK · Feb 7, 2024 Weak, weak, weak: needy Rish! makes a spectacle of himself at PMQs Sunak is not much of a transphobe, but his desperation for the approval of the culture war Tories has shown him up