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Liz Truss: a brief guide to her economic ideas and what the evidence says about them

For some, Liz Truss’s headline policies since she became the UK’s prime minister have been shocking. Markets have been shocked, voters have been shocked, and many of her own colleagues in the Conservative party seem a little uncomfortable.

The Conversation

Tory conference made Apocalypse Now look like a sedate tea party

It’s hard to explain the end-of-days vibe at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham. Government loyalists declared that this re-incarnation of Margaret Thatcher was not for turning on cutting the top rate of tax. Fast forward 12 hours to the mother of all U- turns.

Evening Standard

Britain’s economic crisis offers an opportunity for new ideas – Labour must be ready

Just as the neoliberals took advantage of the mess of the 70s, so the left can offer its own radical solutions for today’s turmoil

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James Cleverly hits out at fellow ministers as Tory civil war rages on

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has hit out at fellow ministers for taking a personal stance on Government policy as the Tory civil war raged on.

Evening Standard

From Blackadder to Blackstuff to Blobby: 100 years of the BBC, part seven

Some of the greatest ever TV airs, Saturday nights get a Crinkley Bottom takeover – and the new comedy royalty are crowned

The Guardian - UK

7 most Tory things we've seen at the Conservative Party Conference 2022

The array of gifts on sale at the party conference centre in Birmingham include Conservative cufflinks in the shape of the party's famous oak tree going for £20.

Daily Mirror

Susanna Reid defends Ed Balls as he's brutally told he's 'wasted' at ITV Good Morning Britain by guest

The presenter was back at the helm of the ITV new programme alongside the former Labour MP

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These Tories are heading for oblivion, and no amount of U-turns can change that

On everything from the 45p tax rate to immigration, Kwarteng and Truss are living in a different world to voters, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Dr John Marks obituary

Chair of the British Medical Association who educated the public about HIV infection while tackling its social stigma

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss' failed bid to become a 21st-Century Margaret Thatcher

In 1981 Thatcher took the drastic but successful step of increasing taxes by 2% of GDP to tackle interest rates and inflation. But Truss has just done a reverse-Thatcher, says Oliver Hartwich

Newsroom.co.nz

Truss’s mini-budget looks likely to cost the Tories the next election

Tory MPs fear voters see them as the nasty party again after the prime minister refused to rethink tax cuts for the rich

The Guardian - UK

Tories will not win the next election, says woman who wrote the 2019 manifesto

Addressing a Conservative conference event entitled 'Can the Tories win the next election?', one of the 2019 manifesto co-authors admitted 'The answer is it's very unlikely'

Daily Mirror

This Tory crisis reveals a party that has lost touch with reality – and its own heartlands

Liz Truss is unashamed about a plan that will hit even the middle classes hard. But her party’s drift away from them began long ago, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

Trickle-down Truss is carrying on the dirty work of Thatcher, Blair and Osborne

Britain has endured 40 years of decline thanks to this faulty economic theory. Will Keir Starmer finally kill it off?, says Yanis Varoufakis, leader of MeRA25 in Greece’s parliament

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Evening Standard

Thousands of Londoners face £10k mortgage blow as interest rates soar

Bank of England independence was no one’s first choice. Margaret Thatcher never did it, John Major preferred to devolve power to the German Bundesbank than grant it to Threadneedle Street. Because the power to set interest rates is an awesome one.

Reuters

Trust me, UK's Truss pursues charm offensive at her party conference

British Prime Minister Liz Truss heads to her Conservative Party conference next week with a packed diary of "meet and greets" to try to win over lawmakers angry over an economic plan that triggered market chaos and badly eroded support.

Daily Mirror

Kaye Adams' Strictly debut was 'scariest moment of her life' as she felt like a 'granny'

Loose Women star Kaye Adams has opened up on her Strictly Come Dancing debut, admitting that she was riddled with insecurities over feeling like a 'granny' in a ballroom dress

The Independent UK

Bombshell polls throw massive question mark over Liz Truss’s future as PM

Tory meltdown after ‘unforced error’ Budget gifts Keir Starmer leads of up to 33 points

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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

Evening Standard

Liz Truss defends Budget but stops short of guaranteeing people’s pensions are safe

Former Chancellor Ken Clarke accused Kwasi Kwarteng of having ‘rushed out’ his fiscal statement last Friday

France 24

No Margaret Thatcher? UK PM Truss's tax cuts trigger market mayhem

There's a run on the pound and panic in the markets over the UK's biggest tax cut for the rich in half a century. New Prime Minister Liz Truss is taking the concept of "going for broke" to a whole new level, with an almighty gamble that the deficit will…

The National (Scotland)

Labour 'in the game' for 14 Scottish seats at Westminster, Anas Sarwar claims

ANAS Sarwar has claimed that Labour will be “in the game” in as many as 14 Scottish constituencies in the next General Election.

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak’s unlikely friendship with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni — a symbol of the Tories’ right-wing turn?

She’s spoken highly of Mussolini and is known for her nativist views — what does it say about Sunak’s political intentions? Katie Strick reports

The Independent UK

Scotland will not be ‘drag on Labour ticket’ at next election, says Sarwar

Labour only have one MP in Scotland.

The Guardian - UK

Personality and Power by Ian Kershaw review – follow the leader… for good or ill

The great historian’s analyses of a dozen 20th-century democrats and dictators are individually cogent but his conclusions tend to the obvious

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