This is what the state is for, you bloody idiots
If left to run its course, the soaring cost of energy bills will devastate the UK. Surely the Tories can't…
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.
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are turning green energy into a culture war
In the face of soaring energy prices, they’re complaining about solar panels on farms.
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When will Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak get real about the NHS?
The health service is still in crisis, but the Tory leadership candidates seem more interested in eroding the NHS’s “free…
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Liz Truss must use the power of the state to relieve the living standards emergency
If the new prime minister relies only on tax cuts, it will be a long, miserable winter – for both…
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What Liz Truss doesn’t get about “graft”
Low productivity is nothing to do with British workers being lazy.
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Neglected north: 66 per cent of innovation funding has gone to southern firms
A new report analyses more than £5bn of Innovate UK spend over the past 18 years.
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Liz Truss’s conflation of anti-Semitism with wokeism is mad and bad
Please don’t drag Jews into the culture war.
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The strangeness of Liz Truss attacking the media
Contrary to what she told TalkTV, Truss knows only Boris Johnson brought down Boris Johnson.
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The Tory party has been infected by a purist brainworm
This summer’s leadership contest has taken place in a parallel ideological universe.
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Liz Truss plays into every sexist trope there is about women
We’ve been trying to tell men for years we’re not airheads, Instagram-obsessed or flighty.
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You don’t win over young people by blocking their access to education
Rishi Sunak has promised to scrap degrees that don't lead to high salaries — but low pay does not indicate…
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Rishi Sunak’s mask has slipped – if ever he wore one
He wasn’t supposed to say what he really thought of “levelling up” out loud.
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Liz Truss says that an economic recession “is not inevitable”
The Foreign Secretary has suggested that the fiscal downturn could be averted with her planned tax cuts.
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Energy crisis: what the UK could learn from Germany
While Berlin is investing heavily to boost energy efficiency and cut usage, the British government is in denial.
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What Tory leadership candidate would dare make David Cameron’s pitch today?
Revisiting the former prime minister’s original message in 2005 shows how much the Tories have changed for the worse.
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Liz Truss is weak on policy – but she’s winning anyway
With every hustings, the Foreign Secretary’s performance has become more relaxed and assured.
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Liz Truss is channelling Boris Johnson, not Margaret Thatcher
The Tory frontrunner’s U-turn over public sector pay shows an affinity for post-truth politics.
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Liz Truss still appears unstoppable despite her embarrassing U-turn on pay
A new poll has given the Foreign Secretary a 34-point lead, leaving Rishi Sunak with little time to close the…
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How the gap between public and private sector pay has grown
A proposal by Liz Truss would have further depressed public sector wages that have fallen in real terms since 2010.
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Liz Truss’s public sector pay U-turn is a warning to her – and to the Conservatives
The Tory front-runner’s embarrassing retreat shows the danger of fixating on tax cuts and shrinking the state.
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