Rishi Sunak has challenged the country to judge him on his pledge to deliver five promises to fix the country – but it’s his delivery of that same quintet that reveals his challenge to stay in Number 10. Sunak’s big new year speech laying out his grand political vision, in five easy to remember pledges […]
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Capping off an historic year of crises, sleaze and scandal is news that Downing Street is very “concerned” about MPs on APPGs trips abroad engaging in sex with prostitutes and heavy drinking. One minister reportedly asked to extend a trip to Asia in order “to explore” his “interest in local women”. Another MP enquired on […]
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Rishi Sunak has used the cover of getting tough on immigration to ditch another manifesto promise and abandon a key levelling-up pledge to protect workers from rogue employers. Perhaps it was a strategy devised at Monday’s (Dec 12) emergency Cobra meeting on how the government – but more importantly the country – will cope with […]
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A bill giving King Charles the power to personally strip titles from anyone, without parliamentary interference gets its second reading in the Commons on Friday (Dec 9). Should the bill progress all the way to royal assent, where the King gets to sign it with one of his “bloody pens”, he may well have the […]
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Rishi Sunak’s Cop27 U-turn is not the first broken pledge of his nascent premiership, and it certainly won’t be the last. He famously vowed to restore “integrity” to No 10 after taking over from Liz Truss but only eight days of his premiership suggests it will be yet more of the same old Tory story. […]
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Liz Truss has been beaten by a blond wig wearing lettuce in a contest to find out which would last longest. As the prime minister took to the lecturn outside No 10 today to announce her inevitable exit from Downing Street, more than 20,000 viewers were live-streaming the historic moment, immortalised on YouTube by the […]
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Liz Truss has not been prime minister for a month but her days in Number 10 already look numbered as calls for a general election intensify. The PM’s authority is immediately weakened by the major U-turn over scrapping the top rate of tax and disgruntled Conservative backbench MPs are smelling blood. Despite the size of […]
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Liz Truss’s mate, Dr Thérèse Coffey is the new cigar chomping, whisky swilling, real ale loving secretary of state for health and social care. Like many a doctor (medical and philosophical) – and many a politician too – the health secretary seems to be very much a “do as I say, not as I do” […]
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Former Shell worker Liz Truss has ruled out extending the windfall tax on energy companies’ £180 billion profits to help pay for her £130 billion plan to tackle soaring energy bills fuelling the UK’s cost of living crisis. Instead, Truss will borrow the eye watering amount, with taxpayers having to pay back the debt – […]
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The UK’s 56th prime minister will finally be announced on Monday and installed by the Queen (in Scotland) on Tuesday after an unnecessarily long, drawn out leadership campaign. As an exercise in navel-gazing during a summer of social, political and economic crises, it is unrivalled. Liz Truss is the blue-hot favourite to replace Boris Johnson […]
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