Queen Elizabeth's Final Five-Word Diary Entry Revealed The late Queen penned it just two days before she died. Marie Claire · Nov 12, 2024
Liz Truss spent final days in office ‘preparing for Putin to fire nuclear weapons’ Truss spent hours studying weather data and wind directions amid fears the wrong weather conditions could have a ‘direct fall-out effect on Britain’, book claims The Independent UK · Nov 12, 2024
The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe review – a blue murder mystery Set during Liz Truss’s premiership, Coe’s multilayered study of how things quickly fell apart is a whodunnit with a villain hiding in plain sight The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2024
King lays first wreath as Kate and William pay respects in London on Remembrance Sunday Kate makes appearances on successive days for first time since December Evening Standard · Nov 10, 2024
Former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Tony Blair attend Remembrance Day ceremony A host of former UK prime ministers including Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, David Cameron, Liz Truss, and Tony Blair joined the Royal Family and military personnel at the Cenotaph today (10 November), to mark Remebrance Day. The Independent UK · Nov 10, 2024
Late Queen’s final diary entry written two days before death revealed Queen’s final diary entry written two days before death revealed The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2024
The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe review – ingenious cosy crime spoof This tricksy caper ranges from 1980s Cambridge to the rise and fall of Liz Truss with entertaining results The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2024
Ignore the doom-mongers: the good news on interest rates shows Labour is on the right track Narratives matter in economics, and we must acknowledge the circumstances the government faces and give credit where due, says economist Mohamed A El-Erian The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2024
From gaffe-prone Philp to hardliner Patel, who makes up Kemi Badenoch’s shadow cabinet? The newly elected party leader unveiled her top team on Tuesday morning ahead of its first meeting The Independent UK · Nov 5, 2024
UK politics live: Badenoch’s shadow cabinet shows Tories ‘learned nothing’ from Truss chaos, says Labour Top roles for Priti Patel, Mel Stride, Chris Philp and Robert Jenrick as new shadow cabinet revealed The Independent UK · Nov 5, 2024
Kemi Badenoch: UK Conservatives’ new leader fighting ‘left-wing nonsense’ She was a passionate supporter of Brexit and threw her weight behind the much-maligned Rwanda deportation scheme. Al Jazeera · Nov 4, 2024
Is austerity over? Will farmers lose out? Six big questions about Rachel Reeves’s budget The Labour chancellor unveiled lots of plans for long-term investment. But there is plenty of lively debate about the immediate impact The Guardian - UK · Nov 2, 2024
Kemi Badenoch becomes first black woman to lead major European party The MP is also the fourth woman to lead the Conservative Party after Margaret Thatcher, Theresa May and Liz Truss. Evening Standard · Nov 2, 2024
Kemi Badenoch elected new Conservative leader – as it happened Badenoch says Tories need ‘a clear plan to change this country by changing the way that government works’ The Guardian - UK · Nov 2, 2024
The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2024 OBR error cut £18bn of headroom from Rachel Reeves’ Budget The error may have contributed to the market jitters that were seen in the wake of the Budget
The Conversation · Nov 1, 2024 Big, bold and risky, but Rachel Reeves has still presented a continuity budget In the long line of UK government budgets, this first one from Labour in 14 years will be remembered as one of the more significant. Perhaps not like those of Geoffrey Howe in 1981, which controversially cut spending in the middle of a recession, or Hugh Dalton in 1946, which…
The Guardian - UK · Nov 1, 2024 Two-thirds of bosses feel negatively about budget, Reeves is told Warning from Institute of Directors comes as ratings agency Moody’s says budget will do little to improve growth
The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2024 Voices: ‘The new Thatcher or the new Truss?’ 10 of your burning Tory leadership questions answered ASK ME ANYTHING: In this exclusive Q&A session, The Independent’s political commentator Andrew Grice addresses key dynamics in the Tory leadership race, and what we can expect when Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick takes the helm
The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2024 Why it’s unfair to compare the current market movement to catastrophic Truss mini-Budget ANALYSIS : Ignore the comparisons, writes Howard Mustoe – any suggestions that market concerns over Rachel Reeves’s Budget bear any similarity to the chaos that followed Liz Truss’s economic disaster are wide of the mark
The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2024 We’ve all got Liz Truss PTSD, says minister as he defends market reaction to Budget Treasury minister says situation after Truss’ mini-Budget ‘completely different in contrast to now’
The Guardian - UK · Nov 1, 2024 UK politics: Budget’s ‘clean bill of health’ from watchdogs should reassure investors, says Reeves – as it happened Chancellor, on a post-budget visit to Newcastle, says ‘markets move all the time’
The Guardian - UK · Nov 1, 2024 UK still suffering from trauma of Liz Truss, says Treasury minister Darren Jones says ‘we’ve all got PTSD’ from Truss’s 2022 mini-budget, amid market jitters after this week’s budget
Evening Standard · Nov 1, 2024 Budget market reaction ‘very different’ from Liz Truss turmoil, minister insists Treasury minister Darren Jones suggested the UK had ‘PTSD’ from Liz Truss’s mini budget, amid jitters from markets.
Evening Standard · Nov 1, 2024 Jittery markets hold their nerve on Budget £32b borrowing as minister reassures: We've all got PTSD from Truss Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren said on borrowing the Government does not ‘think that we are pushing it to the limit’
The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2024 Head of government’s new value for money office ‘to be paid £950 a day’ David Goldstone to advise chancellor and chief secretary to the Treasury on ways to cut public spending