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Andrew Tickell: Leaders' speeches are a lost art and can’t hide the truth of Liz Truss

WELL, that went well. Veteran broadcaster Bernard Ponsonby described it as “the poorest conference speech I’ve ever heard from a prime…

The National (Scotland)

Truss accused of ‘deeply irresponsible demonising’ in Tory conference speech

LIZ Truss has been accused of “deeply irresponsible demonising” of campaigners after branding opponents of her policies an “anti-growth…

The National (Scotland)

Liz Truss joins Bob the Builder’s PM crew

Since Margaret Thatcher first showed up in a hard hat, construction site cosplay has been big in British politics

The Guardian - UK

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Margaret Thatcher was no team player

Letter: Former Conservative minister Norman Fowler disagrees with one current cabinet member’s description of her administration as ‘true cabinet government’

The Guardian - UK

Falling job adverts and rising redundancies spark fears of return to Thatcher days

JOB adverts are falling while potential redundancies are rocketing, according to fresh UK Government statistics, sparking fears Liz Truss’s…

The National (Scotland)

Liz Truss: this is what happens when governments pursue growth at all costs

When Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng unveiled his mini-budget on September 23, he was making it clear that the government is prioritising economic growth over inflation – which was one reason the financial markets reacted so badly to his plan.

The Conversation

The Crown Season 5: Release date, cast and what’s expected to happen

Ready those tissues because season five promises to be a pretty devastating watch

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Moving on up? Just stop the pound going down, Liz

City Voices: Truss’ speech showed she didn’t understand the causes of stagnant economic growth or has a credible plan to solve them

Evening Standard

‘It felt like the buildings were going to eat me’: The famous and their phobias

Whether it’s bugs, clowns, or even beards, there are a multitude of different fears out there – and no one is immune. Louis Chilton looks at some of the famous faces to have been gripped by irrational phobias, from Margaret Thatcher to Niall Horan

The Independent UK

Liz Truss will fight for her vision at all costs – the problem is, her party won’t

In her conference speech she did her best to sell her crude version of Thatcherism. It may get her through the weekend, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss: a brief guide to her economic ideas and what the evidence says about them

For some, Liz Truss’s headline policies since she became the UK’s prime minister have been shocking. Markets have been shocked, voters have been shocked, and many of her own colleagues in the Conservative party seem a little uncomfortable.

The Conversation

Tory conference made Apocalypse Now look like a sedate tea party

It’s hard to explain the end-of-days vibe at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham. Government loyalists declared that this re-incarnation of Margaret Thatcher was not for turning on cutting the top rate of tax. Fast forward 12 hours to the mother of all U- turns.

Evening Standard

Britain’s economic crisis offers an opportunity for new ideas – Labour must be ready

Just as the neoliberals took advantage of the mess of the 70s, so the left can offer its own radical solutions for today’s turmoil

The Guardian - UK

James Cleverly hits out at fellow ministers as Tory civil war rages on

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has hit out at fellow ministers for taking a personal stance on Government policy as the Tory civil war raged on.

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From Blackadder to Blackstuff to Blobby: 100 years of the BBC, part seven

Some of the greatest ever TV airs, Saturday nights get a Crinkley Bottom takeover – and the new comedy royalty are crowned

Daily Mirror

7 most Tory things we've seen at the Conservative Party Conference 2022

The array of gifts on sale at the party conference centre in Birmingham include Conservative cufflinks in the shape of the party's famous oak tree going for £20.

Manchester Evening News

Susanna Reid defends Ed Balls as he's brutally told he's 'wasted' at ITV Good Morning Britain by guest

The presenter was back at the helm of the ITV new programme alongside the former Labour MP

The Guardian - UK

These Tories are heading for oblivion, and no amount of U-turns can change that

On everything from the 45p tax rate to immigration, Kwarteng and Truss are living in a different world to voters, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Dr John Marks obituary

Chair of the British Medical Association who educated the public about HIV infection while tackling its social stigma

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Liz Truss' failed bid to become a 21st-Century Margaret Thatcher

In 1981 Thatcher took the drastic but successful step of increasing taxes by 2% of GDP to tackle interest rates and inflation. But Truss has just done a reverse-Thatcher, says Oliver Hartwich

The Guardian - UK

Truss’s mini-budget looks likely to cost the Tories the next election

Tory MPs fear voters see them as the nasty party again after the prime minister refused to rethink tax cuts for the rich

Daily Mirror

Tories will not win the next election, says woman who wrote the 2019 manifesto

Addressing a Conservative conference event entitled 'Can the Tories win the next election?', one of the 2019 manifesto co-authors admitted 'The answer is it's very unlikely'

The Guardian - UK

This Tory crisis reveals a party that has lost touch with reality – and its own heartlands

Liz Truss is unashamed about a plan that will hit even the middle classes hard. But her party’s drift away from them began long ago, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

Trickle-down Truss is carrying on the dirty work of Thatcher, Blair and Osborne

Britain has endured 40 years of decline thanks to this faulty economic theory. Will Keir Starmer finally kill it off?, says Yanis Varoufakis, leader of MeRA25 in Greece’s parliament

Evening Standard

Thousands of Londoners face £10k mortgage blow as interest rates soar

Bank of England independence was no one’s first choice. Margaret Thatcher never did it, John Major preferred to devolve power to the German Bundesbank than grant it to Threadneedle Street. Because the power to set interest rates is an awesome one.

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