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 · Oct 20, 2022
Do Prime Ministers still get a salary even after they leave office? Even though Liz Truss has become the shortest-serving PM ever, the Downing Street incumbent will still be eligible to claim from a six-figure allowance pot after she exits the famous black door Daily Mirror · Oct 20, 2022
Liz Truss: Why declaring ‘I’m a fighter, not a quitter’ spells doom for politicians Resort to fateful phrase rarely ends well The Independent UK · Oct 19, 2022
Kwasi Kwarteng hits 46-year record low for Chancellors after mini-budget - poll Exclusive: Poll shows 65 per cent adults in Britain dissatisfied with Chancellor Evening Standard · Oct 14, 2022
Will New Zealand’s opposition fall into the same tax trap as Liz Truss? New Zealand and the UK both have top tax rates that raise little revenue but lie as potent political traps for parties on the right The Guardian - AU · Oct 13, 2022
Wrong again! Why is Liz Truss floundering after her U-turns, while Johnson and Blair shrugged theirs off? The PM has performed a series of screeching U-turns since entering Number 10. But is abandoning a policy always a disaster – or is there a way to get away with it? The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2022
Risky 'Shadow Banks' Are Still Unregulated: Are They A Threat To The UK Economy? The Bank of England recently unpacked £65 billion ($72 billion) in an emergency measure to avoid a crash in government bond prices. Without the intervention, the U.K.’s pension funds, which rely heavily on bond holdings, would have entered default. A larger economic crisis was averted. Benzinga · Oct 7, 2022
Six in 10 Brits oppose Liz Truss's 'out of touch' plot to cut benefits, poll shows A vast majority of the public, and nearly half of those who voted Conservative in 2019, believe that benefits should rise in line with inflation, as Liz Truss considers a 5.4% increase which critics warn will plunge the poorest into misery Daily Mirror · Oct 7, 2022
Liz Truss talks sense about thinktanks Brief letters: Vested interest groups | Gordon Brown’s school | Politicians’ clothing choices | Truss’s lack of mandate | Growing the pie The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2022
Gordon Brown predicts 'national uprising' as benefits row intensifies Failing to raise benefits in line with inflation would be 'a scar on the soul of our country', the former PM said Wales Online · Oct 5, 2022
Liz Truss wrongly claims she is the first Prime Minister to attend a comprehensive school Two other Prime Ministers attended comprehensive schools Wales Online · Oct 5, 2022
‘National uprising’ if benefits not hiked with inflation, says Gordon Brown Liz Truss would be ‘immoral’ to make poor pay price of economic plan, says former Labour PM The Independent UK · Oct 5, 2022
Gordon Brown warns of ‘national uprising’ if benefits rise falls short Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng have so far not ruled out such a real-terms cut to benefits. The Independent UK · Oct 5, 2022
Gordon Brown says there will be a 'national uprising' if Tories slash benefits for poor The Labour former Prime Minister added to a chorus of opposition from Tories - as he said only raising benefits by earnings would be "immoral", "unfair" and "unequal" Daily Mirror · Oct 5, 2022
Daily Mirror · Oct 5, 2022 Liz Truss to boast of 'disruption' in make-or-break speech as MORE Cabinet splits emerge The Prime Minister will say 'disruption' is worth it to grow the economy in her first Tory conference speech as PM - as ex-PM Gordon Brown warned of a 'national uprising' and her Foreign Secretary slapped down her Home Secretary
Daily Mirror · Oct 4, 2022 Liz Truss MUST ditch welfare cuts to prevent a 'benefits bloodbath', says Gordon Brown Writing for the Mirror, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown says Liz Truss must raise benefits by inflation - 'and worry more about millions on the breadline than millionaires in the boardrooms'
The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2022 Shortest serving UK prime ministers in modern history as Liz Truss ‘could be gone by Christmas’ Some Tory MPs say they have already submitted letters of no confidence in new PM
The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2022 Liz Truss becomes shortest-serving UK prime minister in history as she resigns after 45 days Boris Johnson’s successor dethroned by backbench rebellion caused by disastrous ‘mini-Budget’
The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2022 Kwasi Kwarteng may have U-turned, but huge spending cuts are still coming The government is clinging to £43bn of tax cuts. Public services and those on benefits will feel the pain, says former prime minister Gordon Brown
The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2022 Shortest serving UK prime ministers in history as Liz Truss ‘could be gone by Christmas’ Some Tory MPs say they have already submitted letters of no confidence in new PM
Daily Record · Oct 3, 2022 Douglas Ross tells Scots Holyrood should have no more powers from Westminster Ross has criticised Labour for wanting to enhance the Scottish Parliament's responsibilities
The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2022 Keir Starmer can lock the imploding Tories out for a decade – if he gets the message right Labour has a brief window to sear a narrative into the public’s mind, so the Conservatives are saddled with this crisis for years, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
The National (Scotland) · Sep 28, 2022 Are Labour actually ready to rule - or will Tory incompetence put them in No 10? KEIR Starmer is clearly emboldened by a largely uncontroversial Labour Party conference and the financial chaos being reaped by the Tory…
Evening Standard · Sep 28, 2022 Analysis: Keir Starmer struck the right note and has the momentum - No10 is in his sights Sir Keir has got his eyes fixed on Number 10 - and no longer needs binoculars to see it
The National (Scotland) · Sep 26, 2022 'Disney films more believable': Gordon Brown's indy alternative to be 'safer' and 'more radical' A BLUEPRINT for the future of the UK being drawn up by former prime minister Gordon Brown will be both a “safer” and “more radical”…