The Chancellor’s biggest budget giveaway is to his own re-election campaign
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ByElizabeth 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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ByThe Conservatives are dissolving into bitter factions. Can anyone hold the party together as it nears defeat?
ByOne of the main anchors of our politics has become increasingly unmoored from reality.
ByLaunching something called “Popular Conservatism”, the former prime minister admitted her own unpopularity.
ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
ByThe lesson of the Truss debacle is that an antagonistic approach to institutions can spook the markets.
ByThe Prime Minister is fighting an election on 13 years, not 13 months.
ByTax cuts or Biden-style investment will not be possible in the next parliament.
ByYour dose of gossip from the Manchester Central Convention Complex.
ByThe former Ukip leader may be right to think the Conservatives will follow where he leads.
ByLiz Truss and her allies are laying the ground for the radicalisation of the Tories in opposition.
ByThe rapturous welcome for the former PM was a warning to Rishi Sunak.
ByThe outgoing head of the Institute of Economic Affairs on whether the UK will ever turn to free-market economics again.
BySome Tory voices want Rishi Sunak to bar Truss from standing as a Conservative candidate at the next election.
ByThe former prime minister was unrepentant about her time in office in a speech yesterday – but knows her free-market…
ByA year on from her disastrous premiership, Liz Truss and her allies remain unwilling to confront economic truths.
ByA year after Liz Truss’s chaotic premiership, her inner circle believe their time will come again.
ByThe party is set to repeat the pattern that led to her election a year ago.
ByConservative constituencies are revolting against CCHQ.
ByJames Bagge, a former high sheriff of Norfolk, is contemplating standing against the ex-PM.
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