Trailing Liz Truss on the Maga speaking circuit
Also this week: reflecting on Wilde, and American political lingo
ByLiz Truss
Elizabeth Truss was prime minister from 6 September 2022 to 25 October 2022. Her tenure in the job, marked by unrest in financial markets, was the shortest in British history. She studied philosophy, politics and economics at Merton College, Oxford. She is married and has two children, and was elected as Conservative MP for South West Norfolk in 2010. In 2014 David Cameron appointed her as Environment Secretary, and, at 38, she was the youngest female member of his cabinet. After that she became the first female Lord Chancellor and the first female Conservative foreign secretary.
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Nigel Farage’s party is in danger of losing momentum
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The former prime minister says she was the victim of “deliberate sabotage”. What if she’s right?
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PMQs review: Angela Rayner spared by calamity Kemi
The Tory leader has fumbled yet another easy catch.
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Douglas Carswell has sunk to the gutter
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Britain faces another showdown with the bond market
Governments are finding it more expensive to borrow, and Britain is in an unusually weak position.
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Liz Truss is haunting Mel Stride
The Conservatives cannot attack Labour on the economy until they disown the former prime minister.
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Will Nigel Farage go the same way as Liz Truss?
Keir Starmer’s “Project Fear” offensive against Reform UK is not going to stick.
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Liz Truss’s social media platform might work
Niche, fractured and politically specific sites are what the internet wants.
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Would Reform be mad to accept Liz Truss?
When I raise the prospect of Reform tempting Truss over, the response from multiple Conservatives is “Please, take her!”
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Of Truss, Trump and tariffs
Confusion on the right over trade is nothing new.
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The Tories still have a Liz Truss problem
The response to tomorrow’s Spring Statement will be made under the looming shadow of Truss’s economic crisis.
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Donald Trump’s useful fools have betrayed Ukraine
Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Nigel Farage knew Trump’s views on the war. So why did they back him nonetheless?
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The spectre of Boris Johnson loomed at Trump’s inauguration
His presence in Washington was a reminder to the Tories of past success.
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In praise of neighbourhood sleuths
Also this week: Sympathy for Liz Truss’s lawyer, and mum’s not the word.
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Starmer is losing his cool
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Liz Truss’s alternate reality
Anthony Seldon’s all-access account fails to explain how a pound-shop Thatcher could take the highest office in the land.
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The one-man mission to unseat Liz Truss
Independent candidate James Bagge on why South West Norfolk is ready to move on from the former prime minister.
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The logic of Liz Truss’s delusion
Why admit defeat when you can convince yourself that you were right all along?
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