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The story of Liz Truss in swear words

The ex-PM’s potty mouth has been revealed in a new book

Evening Standard

Truss at 10 by Anthony Seldon review – the leader who made history for all the wrong reasons

This brisk and readable study of our shortest-serving prime minister’s 49 days in office examines her catastrophic mini-budget and the role played by the Institute of Economic Affairs

The Guardian - UK

Special advisers got £2.9m in severance payments amid political upheaval

Ministers were also paid more than £400,000 in severance packages.

The Independent UK

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Tory MPs pocket £450k in severance payments after political chaos of 2022

TORY MPs scooped hundreds of thousands of pounds in severance payments thanks to the year of political turmoil they caused ...

The National (Scotland)

Ministers given £455,000 in severance payments after year of political turmoil

Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Kwasi Kwarteng and Michael Gove are among the senior figures who accepted severance payments after leaving office.

The Independent UK

Political turmoil in 2022 cost UK taxpayer £3m in severance fees

Pressure to hand back payments grows as documents reveal administrative costs of huge turnover of ministers and advisers

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson and Liz Truss received huge payouts after resigning as Prime Minister

Liz Truss and Boris Johnson both received more than £18,000 each in compensation when they were forced to quit as Prime Minister.

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Top civil servant Sir Tom Scholar’s sacking cost Treasury £457,000

Treasury accounts show numerous ministers also received severance payments amid last year’s spate of resignations.

The Independent UK

Pay-offs during chaotic Truss and Johnson era cost taxpayer more than £3 million

Former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher, who quit after drunkenly groping two men, was given £7,920 in severance pay

The Independent UK

Is it time up for Simon Case, the mandarin who’s never out of the media?

The civil service is ‘a team without a captain’, argues Anthony Seldon. But can Sunak stomach ousting Case before the election?

The Guardian - UK

Understanding of Civil Service impartiality has ‘corroded’, says former mandarin

A panel of former senior civil servants criticised Kwasi Kwarteng’s dismissal of the top Treasury official at the start of his time as chancellor.

The Independent UK

Truss and Kwarteng sacking of top civil servants ‘damaged government’

Instant removal of Treasury’s permanent secretary potentially worsened mini-budget crisis, parliamentary committee hears

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss admits cutting 45p tax rate was ‘perhaps a bridge too far’

Former PM insists, however, that it is unfair to blame actions she took in office for rising mortgage rates

The Guardian - UK

Sunak stresses commitment to integrity following Zahawi sacking

Rishi Sunak said he acted decisively after it became clear that it was “no longer appropriate” for Nadhim Zahawi to remain in his government.

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The Independent UK

Treasury chief Tom Scholar sacked by Liz Truss ahead of disaster Budget gets top honour

Sir Tom Scholar is awarded a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

Daily Mirror

New Year Honours 2023 list in full as Brian May and Lionesses get top gongs

In the first New Year Honours List rubber-stamped by King Charles, over 1,100 individuals receive awards, including artist Grayson Perry, England women's captain Leah Williamson, and heptathlete and TV presenter Denise Lewis

The Guardian - UK

Kwarteng had ‘all the advice’ but disregarded warnings on mini-budget, MPs told

Treasury officials tell select committee they set out impacts of £45bn plan for former chancellor

Reuters

UK's Truss sacrifices close friend Kwarteng over unloved fiscal plan

He was one of her closest friends and supporters, but Prime Minister Liz Truss sacked Britain's first Black finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng just 38 days into the job.

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Evening Standard

V&A looks to return Asante treasures to Ghana, putting it at odds with the PM

V&A DIRECTOR Tristram Hunt has put himself at odds with the Government by signalling the museum will give back looted Asante gold treasures to Ghana.

The Independent UK

Treasury insider is the new top official in the department

James Bowler is appointed permanent secretary following the sacking last month of Sir Tom Scholar.

The Guardian - UK

Spare a thought for your civil servants, trying to cope with Truss’s malignant cult

What to do when ministers fetishise ideology over objectivity and honesty, asks a UK civil servant

The Independent UK

Top mandarin’s sacking had ‘sonic boom’ impact on Whitehall

Warning that government will be damaged by chilling effect on advice to ministers

The Guardian - UK

People thought Corbyn and I would crash the pound. The real risk was Truss and her fanatics

We knew the markets would react sharply to us and were prepared for that. These free-market zealots had no plan at all, says former shadow chancellor John McDonnell

The Guardian - UK

Trussonomics has been exposed as a childish absurdity. Trussopolitics is even worse

The prime minister and Kwasi Kwarteng must now eat humble pie and try to steer Britain out of the crisis they created, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Reuters

Challenging 'orthodoxy,' Kwarteng clings on after UK market rout

As new British finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng hoped to take down finance ministry groupthink that he and new Prime Minister Liz Truss saw as holding Britain back.

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