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The Latest Breaking News from Margaret Thatcher

Have Liz Truss’s 44 days in office destroyed 40 years of free market philosophy?

Economists soon saw through Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s plans for billions of unfunded tax cuts to benefit the rich

The Guardian - UK

Blow for Boris Johnson as Kemi Badenoch backs Rishi Sunak

“We need someone who can win the public’s trust like Margaret Thatcher”

Evening Standard

Jobs Liz Truss could do next after being offered 'head of short stays' at travel firm

Could Liz Truss carry out another U-turn and return to the Lib Dems? Or pick up a role as a cheesemonger after her impassioned speech on the addictive dairy product? We take a look at the job offers suggested for the shortest-serving Prime Minister

Daily Mirror

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Calls for Liz Truss to reject £115,000 annual allowance she is entitled to every year for the rest of her life as a former Prime Minister

Although she is the shortest-serving PM in British history, Liz Truss is still entitled to the Public Duty Cost Allowance

Wales Online

Truss's demise ends the revival of Thatcher's libertarian economics

Daniel Pryor, who lobbies for governments to shrink the state and cut taxes, feels Liz Truss's brief, disastrous spell as prime minister has killed off his dream of a low-tax, deregulated British economy for at least a generation.

Reuters

Liz Truss can receive £115,000 a year FOR LIFE after she quits as Prime Minister

Even though Liz Truss has become the shortest-serving PM ever, the Downing Street incumbent will still be eligible to claim from a six-figure allowance pot after she exits the famous black door

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss promised UK a shakeup — but was forced out instead

Liz Truss became prime minister on a promise to open a new era of growth by shaking up Britain’s economy

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Liz Truss: 44 days of chaos, U-turns and an economic vision shattered

Once seen as a political survivor, she will enter the record books as the shortest-serving prime minister in history.

The Independent UK

Five prime ministers in six years - the fastest turnover in almost a century

Liz Truss is the shortest ever serving PM after just 45 days in office

Wales Online

Liz Truss becomes Downing Street's briefest incumbent

London (AFP) - Liz Truss is set to become the shortest-serving prime minister in Britain's history, after the public, MPs and the markets comprehensively rejected the self-styled heir to Margaret Thatcher.

AFP

Liz Truss becomes shortest-serving Prime Minister: How long all the UK's leaders lasted in Number 10

Truss is the only PM in history to have led for less than 100 days, with the longest-serving Prime Minister lasting more than 20 years

Chronicle Live

UK set for fifth prime minister in just over six years

The urnover of prime ministers has sped up in recent decades.

The Independent UK

Do Prime Ministers still get a salary even after they leave office?

Even though Liz Truss has become the shortest-serving PM ever, the Downing Street incumbent will still be eligible to claim from a six-figure allowance pot after she exits the famous black door

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss: out of depth, out of touch, and most probably out of office

In response to the catastrophic events of her prime ministership, Liz Truss has appeared dazed, confused and ‘trapped in a bad dream’.

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The Conversation

There’s something wrong with British politics. It’s called the Conservative Party

The current turmoil in British politics needs to be understood not just as a response to Liz Truss’s short time as prime minister, but as the result of problems within the governing Conservative Party since it came to power in 2010.

The Guardian - UK

Trussonomics: who were doomed mini-budget’s biggest cheerleaders?

Description of mini-budget as ‘seismic’ in one pro-Tory paper proved correct – though perhaps not in the intended sense

Daily Mirror

All Liz Truss's U-turns so far in her chaotic 41-day term as Prime Minister

From fracking, windfall taxes and tax cuts to Britain's relationship with Emmanuel Macron, Liz Truss is no stranger to a change of heart - and there's plenty more to come from the flip-flopping PM

Liverpool Echo

Netflix's The Crown boycotted for being 'damaging' and 'poorly timed'

Sir John Major and other royal friends have slammed the series and urged viewers to boycott the Netflix series when it airs next month

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Manchester Evening News

BBC Antiques Roadshow viewers horrified by Margaret Thatcher teapot and it was worth a surprising amount

Daily Mirror

Friends of King Charles call for a boycott of Netflix's The Crown after 'hurtful' untruthful scenes

The latest series of The Crown has been slammed by key British figures who have called out Netflix for inaccuracies and fictious scenes including scenes where Prince Charles plots to have the Queen ousted

The Guardian - UK

Andrea Riseborough: ‘I needed to shake off the studio system. You feel like a cog in a vast machine’

The chameleonic star excelled in everything from sci-fi to comedy, but felt her creative spark waning. She talks about finding it again – and coming to terms with the oddness of acting for a living

Evening Standard

Kwasi Kwarteng hits 46-year record low for Chancellors after mini-budget - poll

Exclusive: Poll shows 65 per cent adults in Britain dissatisfied with Chancellor

The Guardian - UK

Truss is frantically blowing on the embers of neoliberalism. But it is a funeral pyre

Just as the rest of the world is turning its back on free-market economics, we have a purist in No 10, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Daily Mirror

All Liz Truss's biggest U-turns exposed - and the ones that are yet to come

From fracking, windfall taxes and tax cuts to Britain's relationship with Emmanuel Macron, Liz Truss is no stranger to a change of heart - and there's plenty more to come from the flip-flopping PM

The Guardian - UK

‘They are stealing Russia’: Adam Curtis on how hyper-capitalism wrecked a nation – and why Liz Truss must take heed

In the 1990s, Russia embraced an extreme economics that led to chaos and corruption. Now, writes the maker of explosive new series TraumaZone, Liz Truss is taking Britain down the same toxic path

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