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The Latest Breaking News from Margaret Thatcher

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

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 Conversation

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

Daily Mirror

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

Liverpool Echo

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

Manchester Evening News

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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

Daily Mirror

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Daily Mirror

‘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

The Guardian - UK

Loss of trust could come back to bite the Tories

Record View says the damage caused by this government in just one month could take years to fix.

Daily Record

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The Guardian - UK

If the Tories U-turn on no-fault evictions, they’ll be guaranteeing misery for renters

Britain’s housing market feels like it’s stuck in the 19th century. Keeping cruel section 21 legislation will make it worse, says author Daniel Lavelle

Evening Standard

Britain is now facing spending cuts for which we are utterly unprepared

In politics, character is electoral destiny: which is to say, the voters have to know what they’re getting. Ever since she announced her bid to succeed Boris Johnson, Liz Truss has presented herself as the heir to Margaret Thatcher; a politician who scorned backsliding, deplored the “drift and delay” of…

The Guardian - US

Why is trickle-down economics still with us?

This gonzo economic theory continues to live on, notwithstanding its repeated failures

The Guardian - UK

So which decade was better? Battle of the 1960s v the 1980s

Pattie Boyd, face of the swinging 60s, last week said that, in truth, the 80s were better. We asked two Observer writers who grew up in those decades to fight it out…

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The Guardian - UK

Johnson was slow-poisoning arsenic for the Conservatives. Liz Truss is instant cyanide

One month into this PM’s reign and already the chatter is about how to remove her

The National (Scotland)

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 Guardian - UK

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

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 National (Scotland)

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 Conversation

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.

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