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Liz Truss’s mini-budget looms large in the election campaign – here’s why it was such a disaster

The words “Liz Truss” and “mini-budget” have become shorthand for financial recklessness and economic chaos. But what was it about the former prime minister’s economic management that was so disastrous?

The Conversation · Jun 6, 2024

From Arsenal to M People: the winners and losers under Liz Truss

Despite the premiership generally being regarded as a disaster, it was more beneficial for some than others

The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2022

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 · Oct 17, 2022

Patrick Minford: maverick economist who inspired Truss and Thatcher

Brexiter tells Guardian that new PM understands need for tax cuts and orthodoxy must be challenged to revitalise economy

The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2022

Trussonomics will be a reckless exercise in slashing the state when there’s nothing left to cut

Thatcherism was disastrous 40 years ago, but the new prime minister seems intent on reviving it to meet the crises of 2022, says sociologist and political economist William Davies

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2022

Who better than Liz Truss to lead a country whose own sewage laps at its shores?

There are just two weeks left in a leadership contest that has been going on since sometime in the early Mesozoic period, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK · Aug 19, 2022

Two sides of Trussonomics: tax cuts and higher interest rates

Select band of economists back Liz Truss’s tax plan, but Rishi Sunak’s team say it could cost homeowners £6,600 a year

The Guardian - UK · Jul 25, 2022

The Yes campaign must not shy away from key issues

GREGOR Gall’s piece in The National on July 22 seeking to discuss how the case for independence can best be presented either simply as…

The National (Scotland) · Jul 25, 2022

'Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak say Britain has to change, but they've run it for years'

Mark Steel says Conservative leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss don't think Boris Johnson is fit to be in their Cabinet, although neither ever objected that he was Prime Minister

Daily Mirror · Jul 23, 2022

Liz Truss tax cuts could see interest rates hit 7 per cent, her own economic adviser admits

The Cardiff University professor also said he advocates ‘thinning out’ workers’ rights

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2022