Liz Truss
Kwasi Kwarteng is a politician from a different age
Liz Truss doesn’t waste energy on unnecessary emotion. At the announcement of her victory at the QE2 Centre, she ditched…
Truss’s appointments are ruffling Tory feathers
Liz Truss has started to appoint supporters of her leadership campaign rivals to ministerial positions, answering the demand (mostly from…
Liz Truss should increase Universal Credit
Liz Truss’s plans for a two-year energy bill freeze, estimated to cost £100 billion, underscore three points. One, the incoming Prime…
What does the new cabinet tell us about Truss?
”Loyalty’ remarked Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe is ‘the Tory party’s secret weapon.’ The near constant blue-on-blue attacks of the last six…
The horrifying truth about Liz Truss
Was it just me or was Liz Truss actually smirking during her statement outside Downing Street, the one littered with…
Full text: The PM's first speech on the steps of No. 10
Good afternoon. I have just accepted Her Majesty the Queen’s kind invitation to form a new government. Let me pay…
Flashback: Truss calls for the monarchy's abolition
It’s Liz versus Liz today as the Queen prepares to kiss hands at Balmoral with Britain’s 56th Prime Minister. While…
Get ready for Liz mania
Here she is, then. Liz Truss is Britain’s third woman Prime Minister and she’s already suffering from the not-so-soft bigotry…
Revealed: Labour's tactics to deal with Truss
Keir Starmer tonight told the weekly parliamentary Labour party meeting that ‘we will never underestimate Liz Truss’. The Labour leader…
The problems of mid-term PMs
Any Prime Minister who takes over mid-term has to contend with a certain set of problems. Liz Truss will wish…
Can Liz Truss deliver, deliver, deliver?
What does deliver, deliver, deliver mean? Liz Truss had it as her payoff on accepting the leadership of the Conservative…
The case against a snap election
Unless Her Majesty throws us all a curveball, Liz Truss will be the next prime minister. So let’s knock something…
Are the markets scared of Liz Truss?
Look at the chart for interest rate expectations in isolation, and you might come to the conclusion that Rishi Sunak…
This week will define Liz Truss’s premiership
This lunchtime Liz Truss has been announced as the new leader of the Conservative party. After a contest that spanned…
Ten graphs that Liz Truss can't ignore
The new Prime Minister’s honeymoon starts and ends today. Once Liz Truss formally enters Downing Street tomorrow she will be…
Will Liz Truss kill levelling up?
Levelling up is probably not even in the top tier of Liz Truss’s intray for this week, given the pressure…
Portrait of the week: Gorbachev dies, Gibraltar becomes a city (again) and Meghan’s Mandela moment
Home Liz Truss, the contender for the Conservative party leadership who is expected to become prime minister next Tuesday, resisted…
‘Those Jedi mind tricks don’t work on me’: Dominic Raab on Truss, Sunak and his own future
Dominic Raab on Truss, Sunak — and whether he will serve under them
Trussonomics: a beginner’s guide
Can a new economic plan get us through the winter?
Truss's Oxford Europhilia revealed
Throughout the leadership contest, Liz Truss has been all too keen to paint herself as a Brexit queen, keen to…
What the Tory leadership rivals haven’t discussed
In just over a week, Britain will have a new prime minister. No one can say that the 160,000 or…
I’d be the perfect communist shill
Could I be the model communist shill? Consider these facts: I was born and raised in China. I speak and…
Who will Liz Truss forgive?
Liz Truss has always been more popular with Tory party members than with Tory politicians. The moment of greatest peril…
Why political interviews matter
She’ll never do it. She’d have to be mad. Why take the risk? That’s what everyone said when I announced…
Thatcherism is a cult the Tories should not follow
Friedrich Nietzsche may not be the most fashionable member of the conservative canon, but doubtless he wouldn’t care much. He…
