Zahawi faces shortest chancellorship since 1970 – and may be glad of it The ex-vaccines minister appears to be the equivalent of a caretaker football manager, with Kwarteng waiting in the wings The Guardian - UK · Aug 24, 2022
Rishi Sunak questions whether Liz Truss’s tax plans are truly Thatcherite Sunak says Thatcher would know Truss’s planned tax cuts ‘aren’t a sensible approach’ The Independent UK · Aug 24, 2022
Liz Truss economic policy ‘more Ted Heath than Margaret Thatcher’, IFS chief says Comparison is likely to irk Tory frontrunner who has modelled herself on Britain’s first woman prime minister The Independent UK · Aug 23, 2022
Tory leadership hustings – Birmingham: Liz Truss confirms she will allow new grammar schools – as it happened This live blog is now closed. The Guardian - UK · Aug 23, 2022
Tax remains key divide as leadership campaigns respond to economic outlook Liz Truss’s campaign has argued for implementing tax cuts quickly, while the Sunak campaign has warned against too much borrowing. The Independent UK · Aug 5, 2022
Boris Johnson will be 'permanent nightmare' for next Tory PM, warns Hague Former Conservative leader Lord Hague said the fact that Boris Johnson 'wants revenge on Rishi Sunakis already apparent, but if Liz Trussis elected, she will face the identical problem' Daily Mirror · Jul 26, 2022
‘Architect of 1968 coup plot’ dramatised in The Crown denied involvement – files Publishing supremo Cecil King said the plot claims were nonsense. The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2022
The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten review – handover notes The journal of Britain’s last governor makes for candid reading, supplemented by a polemical essay on Hong Kong 25 years on The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2022
‘I saw two Tory whips having tequila for breakfast’: Margaret Beckett on Blair, the Iraq war and half a century in politics She is Britain’s longest-serving female MP. As she approaches retirement, she remembers the thrill of Westminster in the 70s, the successes and failures of the Blair years, and nominating Corbyn for the Labour leadership The Guardian - UK · May 17, 2022
Mini budget a 'slap in the face' as cash-strapped Brits tell Sunak 'thanks for nothing' Struggling Brits tell the Mirror of dashed hopes at Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Spring Statement mini budget 'slap in the face' contained NOTHING to stop theworst fall in living standards since the 1950s Daily Mirror · Mar 24, 2022