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Winter of discontent: how similar is today's situation?

The UK government is battening down the hatches for a wave of strikes in December and January. Railway workers, nurses, ambulance workers, civil servants and postal staff are all set to take industrial action in the coming weeks in protest at wages not keeping up with inflation, with teachers’ and…

The Conversation

Who is the shortest-serving UK Prime Minister following the resignation of Liz Truss?

Liz Truss managed just 44 days in office before announcing her resignation

Manchester Evening News

A short history of ‘confidence matters’ in the House of Commons

Treating routine votes as confidence matters is a rare and high-stakes tactic that was last used in 1994.

The Independent UK

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From the archive: Robert Harris on the Queen and Mrs Thatcher, 1988

The monarch got on well with most of her premiers so why did she clash with her longest-serving prime minister, asked the Observer’s political editor in 1988

The Guardian - UK

Shortest serving prime ministers: How Liz Truss compares to her predecessors

She announced on October 20 that she would be stepping down following a revolt within the Tory party.

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson’s tenure as PM: How it compares to his predecessors

He has outlasted eight other people who have served as prime minister since 1900.

The Independent UK

Hollywood superstar stood for election in Moss Side just weeks after winning Oscar

Vanessa Redgrave represented the Workers Revolutionary Party in the 1978 Moss Side by-election, but got less than 400 votes

Manchester Evening News

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Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss? Whoever wins faces a bleak economic outlook

Inflation and a cost of living crisis mean the new PM will have little time to produce a feelgood factor

The Guardian - UK

‘Stuff your 5%!’ Is the UK facing a summer of discontent – and what can we learn from the winter of 1979?

Transport workers, barristers, doctors, teachers, nurses, civil servants: if they haven’t yet voted to strike, they’re likely to do so. The last time anything like this happened, it brought down the government …

The Guardian - UK

The Tories profited from Labour ‘chaos’ in the 1970s. Can Starmer do the same now?

Labour must hammer the message home that these are the worst of times, and pin the blame squarely on Boris Johnson, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

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