Liz Truss U-turns and fudges through her second PMQs
The Prime Minister has only two options: impose deep spending cuts, or ditch the mini-Budget.
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Did Tory MPs really vote to dump raw sewage in Britain’s rivers and seas?
Not quite, but their government is responsible for our polluted waterways.
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Letter of the week: Iran’s new protestors
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Liz Truss’s feeble cabinet proves that Westminster is enticing the wrong people
In the 1980s the Tory benches were crammed with MPs who had run businesses – but now they’re full of…
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Joanna Hardy-Susskind’s Diary: The endless wait for a day in court, Suella Braverman’s drug nonsense, and a lawyer in the Big Brother house
Unconvicted murderers are not, in fact, more popular than exhausted junior lawyers.
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Mervyn King: “The Bank of England made a terrible mistake”
The former governor of the Bank on what Kwasi Kwarteng got wrong and how quantitative easing helped fuel the inflation…
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The Foreign Office has taught fewer than five civil servants to speak Cantonese
The department has been accused of undermining its ability to challenge China by training so few to speak its primary…
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Can Kwasi Kwarteng survive?
If market volatility persists, either the mini-Budget or the Chancellor may have to go.
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