Liz Truss

Councils spent £12.5m on bids for Liz Truss’s investment zones, data shows
Exclusive: Labour compiled analysis of waste suffered by cash-strapped local authorities on the scheme, binned by the government weeks later
Aubrey Allegretti Political correspondent
25, Jan, 2023 @9:00 AM

The Guardian view on levelling up: a badge of Tory confusion | Editorial
Editorial: Rishi Sunak lacks both the imagination to turn Boris Johnson’s slogan into a real policy, and the courage to abandon it
Editorial
18, Jan, 2023 @6:25 PM

Bank of England completes sale of £19bn emergency bond purchases after mini-budget
Bloomberg estimates Bank made profit of £3.5bn after intervening to prevent run on pension funds
Richard Partington Economics correspondent
12, Jan, 2023 @6:33 PM

Glorious Leader channels our desires with awkward party political broadcast
Rishi Sunak claims his priorities are ours, but his main priority is to get himself re-elected as prime minister – for the rest of us it’s to stay alive
John Crace
12, Jan, 2023 @5:25 PM

Hundreds of ‘investment zone’ bids axed as Sunak dismantles Truss policy
Exclusive: council bids for tax breaks and liberalised planning rules axed as government dismantles Liz Truss’s agenda
Aubrey Allegretti
12, Jan, 2023 @7:46 AM

Brexit is just one of the three Tory errors that have brought Britain to its knees
Years of austerity, and then the Truss-Kwarteng fiasco, have compounded the self-inflicted isolation of leaving the EU
William Keegan
08, Jan, 2023 @7:00 AM

The cult of maths has brainwashed our schools – and Rishi Sunak has fallen for it too | Simon Jenkins
The arts, sport, acquisition of complex life skills: all must be sacrificed on the altar of the easily measurable, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
Simon Jenkins
05, Jan, 2023 @5:26 PM

Labour dismisses Rishi Sunak’s five new pledges as mostly ‘so easy it would be difficult not to achieve them’ – as it happened
Prime minister urges public to judge him on whether he delivers on new pledges but Labour says most ‘were happening anyway’
Tom Ambrose (now) and Andrew Sparrow (earlier)
04, Jan, 2023 @7:28 PM

The day Queen Elizabeth died: the inside story of her final hours
As meticulously laid palace plans kicked in, others were taken by surprise. We recall those historic hours
Caroline Davies and Jessica Elgot
30, Dec, 2022 @1:00 PM

After their annus horribilis of 2022, what will the Tories be wishing for in the new year? | Katy Balls
Rishi Sunak presides over a party still bitterly divided over what was the biggest mistake in the year of three prime ministers, says the Spectator’s Katy Balls
Katy Balls
30, Dec, 2022 @12:00 PM

Sunak isn’t Johnson or Truss, but does anyone know who he is – or what he wants for Britain? | Henry Hill
After a manic year, the PM has given his party stability. But he’ll need to do more to resist Labour and reassure his panicky MPs, says Henry Hill, deputy editor of ConservativeHome
Henry Hill
28, Dec, 2022 @7:00 AM

In 2022 Liz Truss tried to bin economic orthodoxy – but what is it?
Rishi Sunak soon rowed back from his predecessor’s chaotic experiment, reasserting the seven pillars of UK Treasury wisdom
Larry Elliott Economics editor
27, Dec, 2022 @3:00 PM
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