20 h. ago Kemi Badenoch refuses to kick Liz Truss out of Conservative Party

The Tory leader suggested such a move would be ‘neither here nor there’ for voters’ perception of the party.

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44 h. ago Tories at war as 'Lettuce' Liz Truss tears into shadow chancellor and says 'leaf it out'

Liz reacted furiously after Mel Stride said the Tory Party has to “put our hands up” to past mistakes - and says she didn't make an error when he tanked the economy

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47 h. ago Liz Truss lashes out as Tories apologise for her disastrous mini

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride will vow the Tories will ‘never again’ make offers they cannot afford as he warned his party ‘needs to shine the light of truth on what Reform is all about’

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48 h. ago Tories try to bury the Liz Truss ghost as Mel Stride hammers ex

The shadow chancellor Mel Stride laid into the former Conservative PM's 49-day tenure, saying it had 'put at risk the very stability which [we] had always said must be carefully protected'.

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50 h. ago Tories will ‘never again’ put economy at risk like Liz Truss did, Mel Stride says

Shadow chancellor accepts Truss’s mini-budget badly damaged party in clearest repudiation yet of ex-PMUK politics live – latest updatesThe Conservatives will “never again” put the economy at risk with unfunded tax cuts like those in Liz Truss’s mini-budget, the shadow chancellor has said, in the party’s clearest repudiation yet of the former prime minister.In a speech on the economy, Mel Stride went beyond any comments made by the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, to accept that Truss’s September 2022 fiscal plans, which involved about £45bn in unfunded tax cuts and quickly unravelled, badly dented the party’s reputation. Continue reading...

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51 h. ago Mel Stride to vow Tories will be party of 'stability and fiscal security' after Liz Truss meltdown as he hammers Reform's 'magic money tree' promises

He is expected to promise the Conservatives will 'never again' make offers they cannot afford as the party seeks to forge a 'credible' financial plan for the future.

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52 h. ago Liz Truss lashes out as Tories set to apologise for her disastrous mini

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride will vow the Tories will ‘never again’ make offers they cannot afford

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55 h. ago Tories will ‘never again’ put economy at risk like Liz Truss did, Mel Stride to say

Shadow chancellor to accept Truss’s mini-budget badly damaged party in clearest repudiation yet of ex-PMThe Conservatives will “never again” risk the economy with unfunded tax cuts like those in Liz Truss’s mini-budget, the shadow chancellor is to say in the party’s clearest repudiation yet of the former prime minister.Making a speech on the economy, Mel Stride is expected to go beyond any comments made by the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, thus far to accept that Truss’s September 2022 fiscal plans, which involved about £45bn in unfunded tax cuts and quickly unravelled, badly dented the reputation of the party. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago The Guardian view on Labour’s investment plans: sugaring the bitter pill of austerity | Editorial

The chancellor is right to be planning for the long term, but voters won’t be patient if change isn’t felt soonInequality between British regions is not a new problem and Rachel Reeves is not the first chancellor to want to close the gap. In 2014, George Osborne promised a “northern powerhouse” to rival the dominance of London and the south-east. He pledged devolution and investment in infrastructure to connect northern cities, to unlock productivity and growth.Since then, Britain’s economy has suffered multiple shocks, some external (the pandemic, inflation stoked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine), others self-inflicted (Brexit, Liz Truss’s mini-budget). Each time, the damage was more severe in places already falling behind. Boris Johnson claimed levelling up as his defining purpose. Rishi Sunak let the ambition slide. Now it is being revived by a Labour chancellor. In a speech announcing transport investments on Wednesday, Ms Reeves promised a “renewal of Britain”, with prosperity ...

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3 d. ago The spirit of Liz Truss, ridiculous but relentless, stalks British politics | Rafael Behr

Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch have much more in common with the failed Tory leader than either cares to admitWe need to talk about Liz Truss, although there are reasons not to bother. The prime minister who failed faster than any previous holder of the office has much to say about her dismal record, but nothing insightful. She cuts a pitiful spectacle padding out the schedule at rightwing conferences, chasing attention and relevance with an addict’s fervour.Last week, Truss was at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest, sharing the big lesson she learned in government. It was that British institutions have been captured by a leftist doctrine and that they “hate western civilisation”. She couldn’t possibly counter this threat from No 10 because supposedly the real power was wielded by a well-financed “globalist network”, operating through such engines of anti-democratic subterfuge as the International Monetary Fund and the World Health Organization.Rafael Be...

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3 d. ago The spirit of Liz Truss, ridiculous but relentless, still stalks British politics | Rafael Behr

Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch have much more in common with the failed Tory leader than either cares to admitWe need to talk about Liz Truss, although there are reasons not to bother. The prime minister who failed faster than any previous holder of the office has much to say about her dismal record, but nothing insightful. She cuts a pitiful spectacle padding out the schedule at rightwing conferences, chasing attention and relevance with an addict’s fervour.Last week, Truss was at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest, sharing the big lesson she learned in government. It was that British institutions have been captured by a leftist doctrine and that they “hate western civilisation”. She couldn’t possibly counter this threat from No 10 because supposedly the real power was wielded by a well-financed “globalist network”, operating through such engines of anti-democratic subterfuge as the International Monetary Fund and the World Health Organization.Rafael Be...

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5 d. ago Liz Truss features in bizarre promotional video to help bare

The former prime minister attended the promotional event in Scunthorpe ‘to support the people working to regenerate the town’

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5 d. ago Manchester's notorious Dougie Joyce poses with Liz Truss to promote his whisky in bizarre video

Dougie Joyce sat with former prime minister Liz Truss to plug his new line of whisky

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5 d. ago Rachel Reeves as unpopular as 'Lettuce' Liz Truss's chancellor during mini

A new polls says that the Chancellor inspires as little public confidence as “Lettuce” Liz Truss’s chancellor did during the fiscal crisis

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8 d. ago ‘The ultimate liberty’: how Nigel Farage became a cryptocurrency convert

Reform leader aims to make London a ‘crypto powerhouse’ and has previously hailed an ‘economic insurgency’As Liz Truss prepared to make a U-turn on her mini-budget in October 2022, Nigel Farage discussed the economic instability on his GB News show. But he was not broadcasting from the channel’s studios in Paddington. Instead, Farage was speaking from a bitcoin conference in Amsterdam.“With inflation forecast to perhaps get up to 20%, with increasing distrust of fiat currencies, people are looking for alternatives Are you ready for bitcoin?” he said in his opening remarks. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago It's Nigel Cabbage! Reform's Nigel Farage tipped to become the next Lettuce Liz Truss

Everyone remember Liz Truss, or, the answer to a pub quiz question in a decade's time of 'who was the Prime Minister between Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak'... well, she's got a successor

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8 d. ago Starmer says Tories ‘sliding into abyss’ and Reform is main challenger

Nigel Farage’s tax and spend plans are ‘Liz Truss all over again’, prime minister tells workers in MerseysideThe Conservatives are “sliding into the abyss”, Keir Starmer has said, as he described Nigel Farage and Reform as the main challengers to his Labour government.During a hastily arranged visit to a glass factory in St Helens, the prime minister castigated Farage as a fake defender of working people and compared him to Liz Truss as someone whose fiscal plans would crash the economy. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Keir Starmer HUMILIATES Nigel Farage by blasting him as 'Liz Truss 2.0'

Keir Starmer ramped up his war of words with Nigel Farage as he warned Reform UK's uncosted pledges would trigger economic chaos that would hurt ordinary workers

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9 d. ago Keir Starmer says Nigel Farage is ‘Liz Truss all over again’ – UK politics live

Prime minister says ‘you cannot trust Farage with your future and your jobs’ as he gives speech in north-west EnglandStarmer to say Reform’s spending plans would cause Truss-style meltdownWhen “something sounds too good to be true, it’s because it is too good to be true”, water minister Emma Hardy has said, reports the PA news agency.Asked about the “threat” which Reform UK poses to Labour, Hardy told GB News:I think it’s really important that any political party is held to account for the promises that they’ve made and we know – gosh, don’t we just know – what happened when [former prime minister] Liz Truss made her £45bn of unfunded tax cuts: the economy tanked, mortgages went up, rents went up, bills went up.When something sounds too good to be true, it’s because it is too good to be true. If [Farage] wants to be taken seriously as a political party, then he needs to come up with some serious policies and he needs to be held to account.Now, had I come on your programme and said, ...

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9 d. ago Keir Starmer to give major speech today to attack Farage's 'mad experiment'

Keir Starmer will use a speech in the North West to warn Nigel Farage's 'fantasy' economics would lead to a Liz Truss-style economic meltdown and hit family finances

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