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It also has a self-healing fuel tank and a tamper-proof exhaust

Politics in government, when it is done properly, is meant to be boring. The process of change is glacial and not an especially interesting spectator sport. It is a mark of how badly the Conservative party has recently been conducting its politics that it has not managed to be boring…

The turnover of prime ministers has speeded up in recent decades.

Rishi Sunak is set to be our new Prime Minister and Tory dreams and fantasies may finally be coming to an end. For political parties, such bubble-bursting can be painful. Nigel Lawson’s boom in the late Eighties was followed by a prolonged bust. The “no more boom and bust” promises…

Despite the UK’s new negative credit outlook, it still has vast resources if it wants to access them

All former prime ministers are entitled to a maximum of £115,000 a year from a government fund, called the Public Duty Cost Allowance

The PA news agency looks at some of the options available to Ms Truss following her resignation.

Outgoing PM urged to forgo allowance amid cost of living crisis and cuts to public services

Liz Truss will be entitled to claim £115,000 per year from the taxpayer despite becoming the shortest-serving Prime Minister in British history.