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The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Pound dips to 14-month low as bond sell-off piles pressure on Rachel Reeves

Sterling extends losses against US dollar before easing to half a cent down after Treasury calms market jitters

The Guardian - UK

Truss sends cease and desist to Starmer demanding he stop saying she crashed the economy

Downing Street said the prime minister ‘absolutely stands by’ his comments on the previous government’s record

The Independent UK

Bond market turmoil eases as Treasury minister says ‘no need’ for government intervention – as it happened

Lib Dems say chancellor should stay and make emergency fiscal statement and also cancel planned national insurance hike

The Guardian - UK

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Rachel Reeves says she has ‘iron grip’ on finances as borrowing costs surge

Treasury issues rare second statement in two days after sell-off leaves 10-year bonds at highest level since 2008

The Guardian - UK

The spiralling cost of borrowing spells trouble for Rachel Reeves – but she must hold her nerve

There is no need to panic: the government’s overall fiscal strategy is the right one. Spending cuts would be a mistake, says Jonathan Portes, a professor at King’s College London

The Guardian - UK

Why rising bond yields are rattling Rachel Reeves

Chancellor in danger of breaking fiscal rules after cost of servicing UK 10-year debt rises to highest level since 2008

The Guardian - UK

Rise in UK borrowing costs could push Reeves to new public spending cuts

Analysts say costs hitting highest level since 1998 risks wiping out almost all of chancellor’s £10bn buffer

The Guardian - UK

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Disturbing footage shows senior Tories laughing at 'Nazi' jokes in members' club

GUESTS at a Tory private member’s club have been caught laughing at Nazi jokes with the host singing “we’re all racist now” in a disturbing…

The National (Scotland)

Economists warn Treasury is likely to raise taxes even further this year

Almost 100 experts expect a low rate of economic growth this year

The Independent UK

Voters dub Keir Starmer’s government ‘incompetent’ and ‘dishonest’ in shock new poll

In his new year message the Labour leader admitted there is ‘so much more’ to do after difficult first six months in No 10

The Independent UK

Across the west, the centre right is collapsing – and with it, any notion of what is ‘too extreme’

So-called moderates are mimicking populist demagogues, with potentially disastrous consequences, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024 by Tariq Ali review – an exasperating entertainment

The leftwing intellectual may be a master of self-justification, but in this book he is clever, cultured and good company

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting and Piers Morgan to appear on Question Time – see the full panel

QUESTION Time is set to be broadcast from Beckenham this week as a range of panellists prepare to be grilled on a range of topics...

The National (Scotland)

Nigel Farage, man of the people, welcomes his latest billionaire to Reform

Like our Nige, Nick Candy doesn’t appear to have any solutions to anything … but he does have very deep pockets

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The Independent UK

Voices: Jeremy Hunt is fighting for his place in history – and the Tories’ future may depend on it

COMMENT: The former chancellor says Rachel Reeves’s budget ‘black hole’ is fiction. John Rentoul examines whether voters will listen

Evening Standard

Michael Gove's plan to sell off London's ageing prisons in radical jail reform was axed by Liz Truss

Michael Gove said plans for radical prison reform were axed by Liz Truss and Theresa May

The National (Scotland)

Audience member takes aim at Nigel Farage on Question Time for 'demonising migrants'

NIGEL Farage clashed with an audience member on Question Time over migration on Thursday night’s programme...

Benzinga

Mohamed El-Erian Calls Michel Barnier's Ouster An Example Of 'Messy Politics,' Notes Greek And French Bonds Achieving Historic Parity

Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz's Chief Economic Advisor, warned Wednesday Dec. 4, 2024 about the growing intersection of political and economic challenges in France following Prime Minister Michel Barnier's historic no-confidence ouster, even as Greek bonds achieved parity with French sovereign debt for the first time since the Eurozone crisis.

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Evening Standard

Rivalry, ambition and the threat from the Right: Can Kemi Badenoch resuscitate the Tories?

The new Conservative party leader is less than two months into the job, yet reviews are already mixed

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss is apparently too mad even for a rightwing US audience

Former PM’s speech to the Heritage Foundation declares just about everyone alive to be part of a communist conspiracy

Evening Standard

Fact check: Sir Keir Starmer’s low approval rating is not worst for a sitting PM

Despite falling popularity, polling companies have recorded less favourable opinions of prime ministers past.

Evening Standard

Out by Tim Shipman review: An epic political saga draws to a close

At the launch of the final part of his magisterial Brexit quartet, author Tim Shipman offered three reasons why differing political groups should read it. The first were those still reeling from the Out result. The second were those who passionately wanted to get Out and blamed everyone else for…

The Guardian - UK

A tall story about our road-protest scaffold

Brief letters: Claremont Road eviction | The Rest Is Integrity | Wolf Hall characters | Storms Boris and Liz | Storm Conall

The National (Scotland)

Former Tory minister Andrea Jenkyns defects to Reform UK

FORMER Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns has become the latest to defect to Nigel Farage's party Reform UK.

The Guardian - UK

Badenoch suggests final Tory migration policy would be more radical than leaving European convention on human rights – as it happened

Conservative leader says there needs to be a ‘plan not just a promise’ beyond leaving the ECHR

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