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    • 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
    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      FT Magazine
      The inside story of Liz Truss’s disastrous 44 days in office

      How a historic budget came together and fell apart, told by those who were there

    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
      News in-depthConservative Party UK
      Why Rishi Sunak is struggling to impose his authority

      The UK prime minister is facing four tribes of rebellious Conservative MPs

      Montage of Dehenna Davison, Damian Green, Simon Clarke, Jake Berry and Rishi Sunak
    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      Conservative Party UK
      Johnson and Truss join Tory rebellion over onshore wind farms

      Sunak’s predecessors create headache for new PM by backing attempt to lift effective ban on fresh sites

      Whitelee Windfarm on the outskirts of Glasgow
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