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  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    Conservative Party UK
    Truss rally highlights rift between Sunak and the Tory right

    Former PM urges premier to ‘axe the tax’ at energetic fringe event of Conservative conference

  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
    Bismarck, Truss and why timing is everything in politics

    ‘Bad timing is not a minor mistake. It is a fundamental error of judgment. In a political leader, it is unpardonable’

  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    UK Data
    Fact-checking Liz Truss’s debt interest claims

    Or: a vibes-based discussion about international public sector accrual accounting for inflation-linked bonds

  • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
    UK politics
    UK public support for ‘big government’ hits record high

    Voters want state to be responsible for controlling prices and reducing inequality

    People on a bridge with the Houses of Parliament in the background
  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Truss ducks her thorniest problem in bid to stay relevant

    Blaming external forces becomes especially attractive in opposition and sidesteps confronting internal divisions

    Liz Truss gives a speech
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    UK politics
    Liz Truss makes defiant return to political fray

    UK’s shortest-serving PM unbowed in speech despite disastrous legacy and attacks from within own party

    Liz Truss arrives at the Institute for Government  to make a speech on Monday
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    UK financial crisis
    Liz Truss mini-Budget fallout like swimming with crocodiles, says BoE’s top economist

    Huw Pill says dealing with market turmoil sparked by unfunded tax cuts was ‘not a comfortable experience’

    Kwasi Kwarteng unveiling an anti-inflation budget plan at the House of Common
  • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Can UK honours system arise from the swamp?

    With two of Liz Truss’s nominees reportedly refusing gongs, Britain could learn better practices from abroad

    Liz Truss and Boris Johnson attend the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph on Whitehall
  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    UK politics
    UK Treasury counts cost of payouts from last summer’s political chaos

    Accounts show extent of severance packages made to sacked ministers, officials and advisers

    Sir Tom Scholar was sacked by Liz Truss as Treasury permanent secretary on her first day in the job
  • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
    UK politics
    Liz Truss seeks to revive her ‘pro-growth’ agenda with economic project

    New commission will set out case for tax and competition reform, popular on Conservative right

    Liz Truss
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    Capital markets
    No, current gilt yields don’t vindicate Liz Truss, please don’t make us explain this again

    Learning how to cope with gilts

  • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Truss blames ‘woke culture’ for failings. Is anyone listening?

    As 49-day prime minister absurdly doubles down on her agenda in speech, Sunak can take comfort from knowing he remains near-unassailable

    Former prime minister Liz Truss delivers the 2023 Margaret Thatcher Freedom lecture at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank in Washington
  • Friday, 24 March, 2023
    UK honours system
    Trussonomics thinker and Vote Leave chief on draft list for honours

    Nominations come even though Liz Truss served only 49 days as prime minister

    Liz Truss served as prime minister for only 49 days
  • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
    UK politics
    Plans for UK investment zones set to be scaled back in Budget

    Treasury to ‘catalyse’ limited growth clusters around research bases such as universities

  • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
    Robert Shrimsley
    Sunak is haunted by Tory ghosts and fantasies of cake

    MPs agitating for reheated ‘Trussonomics’ could force the prime minister off the path of fiscal prudence

    Illustration of a graveyard with a headstone saying, ‘Here lies the Truss administration R.I.P.’ A woman’s hand is sticking out of the grave holding a slice of cake with a cherry on top
  • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
    Politics
    Fisking the Trussay

    Because someone has to, we suppose

  • Monday, 6 February, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Truss has a ready and willing audience in Tory party

    Support for former PM’s ideas is why ministers skirt past reality that tax cuts may eat into public spending

    Liz Truss
  • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
    Truss draws fire after blaming ‘economic establishment’ for her downfall

    Tory minister joins market experts in dismissing former PM’s claims

    Former prime minister Liz Truss
  • Saturday, 4 February, 2023
    UK politics
    Sunak under pressure from growing Raab row and critical ex-PMs

    Some Tory MPs think the justice secretary should step aside during bullying inquiry

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    UK public finances
    Truss to join Tory rightwing clamour for immediate tax cuts

    Hunt and Sunak insist their focus is on controlling UK public finances and inflation

    Montage of chancellor Jeremy Hunt and pound coin
  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    Bank of England
    BoE winds up Truss emergency measures

    Bonds it purchased to stabilise the UK economy after the disastrous mini-Budget have now been sold

    The Bank of England
  • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
    News in-depthUK economy
    Truss regime’s ‘moron premium’ still looms over UK economy

    Mortgage deals are more expensive than before mini-Budget, although government borrowing costs have declined

    A montage of ‘sold’ signs on buildings and a line graph
  • Monday, 26 December, 2022
    Sebastian Payne
    Year in a word: Trussonomics

    The agenda that earned Liz Truss the dubious title of shortest-ever serving British prime minister

    Liz Truss with ‘TRUSSONOMICS’ spelled out in fronts. Behind is a line showing soaring gilt yields, which only fell after Bank of England intervention
  • Friday, 23 December, 2022
    Inside Politics
    What I got wrong in 2022: The sequel

    The rise, and rapid fall, of Liz Truss as prime minister taught me that markets can and will beat voters to the punch

    FT montage of former British prime minister Liz Truss
  • Monday, 12 December, 2022
    Inside Politics
    The spectre of Trussonomics is not going away

    New Tory group decries what it calls ‘dying’ internal democracy and aim to steer the party ‘centre-right’

    Liz Truss, former prime minister, in Downing Street
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