Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Theresa May (and soon Nicola Sturgeon): the strange backbench lives of former national leaders: UK Parliament/Flickr, CC BY-NC Former prime ministers are currently making a habit of intervening in government policy. Boris Johnson deployed sources to urge current prime minister Rishi Sunak not to abandon his Brexit policies and to send …
Liz Truss is now the UK’s shortest-serving prime minister – how does she stack up against George Canning, who previously held the record?: George Canning, now the second-longest-serving prime minister of the United Kingdom. Thomas Lawrence, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Liz Truss announced her resignation on October 20 2022, 44 days after taking office. …
Liz Truss resigns: so why isn’t the UK having an election?: Liz Truss resigned as the Conservative party leader just 45 days after being elected to that position. She was forced out by her backbenchers because of a disastrously misjudged mini-budget, concerns about her competency and a catastrophic collapse in the Conservatives’ poll ratings. She …
Liz Truss resigns as prime minister: the five causes of her downfall explained: As Liz Truss stepped away from the lectern outside No.10 Downing Street after resigning as leader of her party, it probably occurred to her that her time as prime minister will have been only as long as the leadership campaign that got …
Liz Truss resigns: who is in and who is out in the race to replace her?: Liz Truss’s resignation as the leader of the Conservative party immediately triggers a contest to replace her as prime minister. After the turmoil of recent months, it has been decided that the contest will be short and sharp. Candidates …
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Chaos in Westminster: why Liz Truss finally lost control of MPs: Alamy/PA In a night emblematic of Liz Truss’s chaotic premiership, confusion reigned in parliament as an opposition day motion on the contentious issue of fracking became a confidence vote in her leadership. Labour MPs reported seeing Conservatives being manhandled and “bullied” into the chamber …
Liz Truss: what happened in the night of Westminster chaos that triggered the PM’s resignation?: Many factors combined to cause Liz Truss’s demise but it was a night of chaos in the British parliament that triggered her resignation. Events in the House of Commons on October 19 made it clear that the prime minister had …
Liz Truss: what I told European colleagues when they asked me what on Earth is going on in British politics: The Casino de Montbenon in Lausanne, Switzerland would make a perfect setting for a James Bond film. Located in magnificent gardens and overlooking Lake Geneva and the Alps, criminals and villains could make their entry …
Liz Truss is now a case study in poor leadership: Leaders are watched. They are scrutinised. If you don’t like the idea of being held accountable and having to answer for your actions then a leadership role is probably not for you. I don’t know if such thoughts have ever occurred to Liz Truss, who …
Liz Truss: this is what happens when governments pursue growth at all costs: When Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng unveiled his mini-budget on September 23, he was making it clear that the government is prioritising economic growth over inflation – which was one reason the financial markets reacted so badly to his plan. This clear willingness to …
Truss cut the most popular taxes — this wasn’t an accident, but it may be a mistake: The recent U-turn on cutting the top rate of income tax has shown that even a government willing to “do unpopular things” to grow the UK economy is constrained by the need for public support. The negative public …
Liz Truss: what her Conservative party conference speech revealed: The stakes could not have been higher as Liz Truss delivered her first party conference speech as prime minister. Against a backdrop of economic chaos, open party warfare and polling that shows she’s on course for a spectacular election loss, Truss insisted she was “determined to …
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. So …
Liz Truss: how to understand polls that give Labour an enormous lead – and why the Tories are right to fear a major election loss: The cabinet having an absolute hoot at their annual conference in Birmingham. Alamy/PA When Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced that he would not be going ahead with his plan to scrap …
Liz Truss: are the Conservatives facing an electoral meltdown?: The Conservative party is heading into its annual conference amid the catastrophic fallout from Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget. The decision to cut tax without a plan to pay for it caused a sharp fall in the value of the pound on currency markets, which reached an …
Why Liz Truss is no Margaret Thatcher when it comes to the economy: The UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, has made no secret of her admiration of her late predecessor, Margaret Thatcher. However, anyone expecting a swift return to Thatcherite policies in 2022 should probably take a closer look at Truss’s politics. To begin …
Fracking: if Liz Truss wants a major shale gas industry, she is 280 million years late: In some respects, the UK has been among the world’s most successful countries at taking action against climate change over the past few decades. Yet that progress could be reversed and thrown away for a few years of slightly …