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The Latest Breaking News from Margaret Thatcher

UK gets fifth prime minister in just over six years

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

The Independent UK

Spitting Image Margaret Thatcher puppet to go on public display for the first time

Somerset House exhibition marks the first time a ‘Spitting Image’ puppet has gone on public display

The Independent UK

‘A way through the darkness’: the art show sublimating the horrors of past half-century

In The Horror Show!, artists and film-makers Iain Forsyth and Jane Polland curate a terrifying tour through the times of their lives, from cold war angst to Gen Z activism

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When Glasgow's BBC studios were raided over top secret spy satellites

Just months before the 1987 general election, Glasgow's BBC headquarters were at the centre of a national scandal involving top secret spy satellites that would threaten to topple Margaret Thatcher's government.

Glasgow Live

Margaret Thatcher statue vandalised for third time in Grantham

Two hours after the monument was erected in May, the statue was egged

The Independent UK

Have Liz Truss’s 44 days in office destroyed 40 years of free market philosophy?

Economists soon saw through Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s plans for billions of unfunded tax cuts to benefit the rich

The Guardian - UK

Blow for Boris Johnson as Kemi Badenoch backs Rishi Sunak

“We need someone who can win the public’s trust like Margaret Thatcher”

Evening Standard

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Jobs Liz Truss could do next after being offered 'head of short stays' at travel firm

Could Liz Truss carry out another U-turn and return to the Lib Dems? Or pick up a role as a cheesemonger after her impassioned speech on the addictive dairy product? We take a look at the job offers suggested for the shortest-serving Prime Minister

Daily Mirror

Calls for Liz Truss to reject £115,000 annual allowance she is entitled to every year for the rest of her life as a former Prime Minister

Although she is the shortest-serving PM in British history, Liz Truss is still entitled to the Public Duty Cost Allowance

Wales Online

Truss's demise ends the revival of Thatcher's libertarian economics

Daniel Pryor, who lobbies for governments to shrink the state and cut taxes, feels Liz Truss's brief, disastrous spell as prime minister has killed off his dream of a low-tax, deregulated British economy for at least a generation.

Reuters

Liz Truss can receive £115,000 a year FOR LIFE after she quits as Prime Minister

Even though Liz Truss has become the shortest-serving PM ever, the Downing Street incumbent will still be eligible to claim from a six-figure allowance pot after she exits the famous black door

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss promised UK a shakeup — but was forced out instead

Liz Truss became prime minister on a promise to open a new era of growth by shaking up Britain’s economy

The Independent UK

Liz Truss: 44 days of chaos, U-turns and an economic vision shattered

Once seen as a political survivor, she will enter the record books as the shortest-serving prime minister in history.

The Independent UK

Five prime ministers in six years - the fastest turnover in almost a century

Liz Truss is the shortest ever serving PM after just 45 days in office

Wales Online

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Liz Truss becomes shortest-serving Prime Minister: How long all the UK's leaders lasted in Number 10

Truss is the only PM in history to have led for less than 100 days, with the longest-serving Prime Minister lasting more than 20 years

The Independent UK

UK set for fifth prime minister in just over six years

The urnover of prime ministers has sped up in recent decades.

Daily Mirror

Do Prime Ministers still get a salary even after they leave office?

Even though Liz Truss has become the shortest-serving PM ever, the Downing Street incumbent will still be eligible to claim from a six-figure allowance pot after she exits the famous black door

The Conversation

There’s something wrong with British politics. It’s called the Conservative Party

The current turmoil in British politics needs to be understood not just as a response to Liz Truss’s short time as prime minister, but as the result of problems within the governing Conservative Party since it came to power in 2010.

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The Guardian - UK

Trussonomics: who were doomed mini-budget’s biggest cheerleaders?

Description of mini-budget as ‘seismic’ in one pro-Tory paper proved correct – though perhaps not in the intended sense

Daily Mirror

All Liz Truss's U-turns so far in her chaotic 41-day term as Prime Minister

From fracking, windfall taxes and tax cuts to Britain's relationship with Emmanuel Macron, Liz Truss is no stranger to a change of heart - and there's plenty more to come from the flip-flopping PM

Liverpool Echo

Netflix's The Crown boycotted for being 'damaging' and 'poorly timed'

Sir John Major and other royal friends have slammed the series and urged viewers to boycott the Netflix series when it airs next month

Manchester Evening News

BBC Antiques Roadshow viewers horrified by Margaret Thatcher teapot and it was worth a surprising amount

Daily Mirror

Friends of King Charles call for a boycott of Netflix's The Crown after 'hurtful' untruthful scenes

The latest series of The Crown has been slammed by key British figures who have called out Netflix for inaccuracies and fictious scenes including scenes where Prince Charles plots to have the Queen ousted

The Guardian - UK

Andrea Riseborough: ‘I needed to shake off the studio system. You feel like a cog in a vast machine’

The chameleonic star excelled in everything from sci-fi to comedy, but felt her creative spark waning. She talks about finding it again – and coming to terms with the oddness of acting for a living

Evening Standard

Kwasi Kwarteng hits 46-year record low for Chancellors after mini-budget - poll

Exclusive: Poll shows 65 per cent adults in Britain dissatisfied with Chancellor

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