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Will New Zealand’s opposition fall into the same tax trap as Liz Truss?

New Zealand and the UK both have top tax rates that raise little revenue but lie as potent political traps for parties on the right

The Guardian - AU

Wrong again! Why is Liz Truss floundering after her U-turns, while Johnson and Blair shrugged theirs off?

The PM has performed a series of screeching U-turns since entering Number 10. But is abandoning a policy always a disaster – or is there a way to get away with it?

The Guardian - UK

Risky 'Shadow Banks' Are Still Unregulated: Are They A Threat To The UK Economy?

The Bank of England recently unpacked £65 billion ($72 billion) in an emergency measure to avoid a crash in government bond prices. Without the intervention, the U.K.’s pension funds, which rely heavily on bond holdings, would have entered default. A larger economic crisis was averted.

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Six in 10 Brits oppose Liz Truss's 'out of touch' plot to cut benefits, poll shows

A vast majority of the public, and nearly half of those who voted Conservative in 2019, believe that benefits should rise in line with inflation, as Liz Truss considers a 5.4% increase which critics warn will plunge the poorest into misery

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss talks sense about thinktanks

Brief letters: Vested interest groups | Gordon Brown’s school | Politicians’ clothing choices | Truss’s lack of mandate | Growing the pie

The Guardian - UK

Gordon Brown predicts 'national uprising' as benefits row intensifies

Failing to raise benefits in line with inflation would be 'a scar on the soul of our country', the former PM said

Wales Online

Liz Truss wrongly claims she is the first Prime Minister to attend a comprehensive school

Two other Prime Ministers attended comprehensive schools

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‘National uprising’ if benefits not hiked with inflation, says Gordon Brown

Liz Truss would be ‘immoral’ to make poor pay price of economic plan, says former Labour PM

The Independent UK

Gordon Brown warns of ‘national uprising’ if benefits rise falls short

Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng have so far not ruled out such a real-terms cut to benefits.

The Independent UK

Gordon Brown says there will be a 'national uprising' if Tories slash benefits for poor

The Labour former Prime Minister added to a chorus of opposition from Tories - as he said only raising benefits by earnings would be "immoral", "unfair" and "unequal"

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss to boast of 'disruption' in make-or-break speech as MORE Cabinet splits emerge

The Prime Minister will say 'disruption' is worth it to grow the economy in her first Tory conference speech as PM - as ex-PM Gordon Brown warned of a 'national uprising' and her Foreign Secretary slapped down her Home Secretary

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss MUST ditch welfare cuts to prevent a 'benefits bloodbath', says Gordon Brown

Writing for the Mirror, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown says Liz Truss must raise benefits by inflation - 'and worry more about millions on the breadline than millionaires in the boardrooms'

Daily Mirror

Shortest serving UK prime ministers in modern history as Liz Truss ‘could be gone by Christmas’

Some Tory MPs say they have already submitted letters of no confidence in new PM

The Independent UK

Liz Truss becomes shortest-serving UK prime minister in history as she resigns after 45 days

Boris Johnson’s successor dethroned by backbench rebellion caused by disastrous ‘mini-Budget’

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The Guardian - UK

Kwasi Kwarteng may have U-turned, but huge spending cuts are still coming

The government is clinging to £43bn of tax cuts. Public services and those on benefits will feel the pain, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

The Independent UK

Shortest serving UK prime ministers in history as Liz Truss ‘could be gone by Christmas’

Some Tory MPs say they have already submitted letters of no confidence in new PM

Daily Record

Douglas Ross tells Scots Holyrood should have no more powers from Westminster

Ross has criticised Labour for wanting to enhance the Scottish Parliament's responsibilities

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer can lock the imploding Tories out for a decade – if he gets the message right

Labour has a brief window to sear a narrative into the public’s mind, so the Conservatives are saddled with this crisis for years, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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The National (Scotland)

Are Labour actually ready to rule - or will Tory incompetence put them in No 10?

KEIR Starmer is clearly emboldened by a largely uncontroversial Labour Party conference and the financial chaos being reaped by the Tory…

Evening Standard

Analysis: Keir Starmer struck the right note and has the momentum - No10 is in his sights

Sir Keir has got his eyes fixed on Number 10 - and no longer needs binoculars to see it

The National (Scotland)

'Disney films more believable': Gordon Brown's indy alternative to be 'safer' and 'more radical'

A BLUEPRINT for the future of the UK being drawn up by former prime minister Gordon Brown will be both a “safer” and “more radical”…

The Independent UK

Gordon Brown ‘nearing completion’ on Labour’s review of UK’s future

Labour MP Ian Murray said the blueprint by the former PM would include plans that would be ‘more radical’ than Scottish independence.

The Guardian - UK

Maurice Glasman, architect of Blue Labour: ‘Labour needs to be itself again’

Ten years ago, political theorist Maurice Glasman was one of Labour’s brightest stars – until a fall from grace. Now, back with a new book, he talks about conservative socialism, backing Brexit – and why Keir Starmer must seize this moment

The Guardian - UK

Truss is on an economic rampage with no mandate. So why is Starmer resisting electoral reform?

The Labour leadership still thinks a rigged voting system can be used for progressive ends, says the Guardian columnist John Harris

Daily Mirror

British judge says 'lunatic' Vladimir Putin should be put on trial for Ukraine war crimes

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC - who prosecuted Serbian warlord Slobodan Milosevic - says it is essential the Russian leader is brought to trial as a lesson to other dictators

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