Liz Truss
Flashback: Truss calls for the monarchy's abolition
It’s Liz versus Liz today as the Queen prepares to kiss hands at Balmoral with Britain’s 56th Prime Minister. While…
Get ready for Liz mania
Here she is, then. Liz Truss is Britain’s third woman Prime Minister and she’s already suffering from the not-so-soft bigotry…
Revealed: Labour's tactics to deal with Truss
Keir Starmer tonight told the weekly parliamentary Labour party meeting that ‘we will never underestimate Liz Truss’. The Labour leader…
The problems of mid-term PMs
Any Prime Minister who takes over mid-term has to contend with a certain set of problems. Liz Truss will wish…
Can Liz Truss deliver, deliver, deliver?
What does deliver, deliver, deliver mean? Liz Truss had it as her payoff on accepting the leadership of the Conservative…
The case against a snap election
Unless Her Majesty throws us all a curveball, Liz Truss will be the next prime minister. So let’s knock something…
Are the markets scared of Liz Truss?
Look at the chart for interest rate expectations in isolation, and you might come to the conclusion that Rishi Sunak…
This week will define Liz Truss’s premiership
This lunchtime Liz Truss has been announced as the new leader of the Conservative party. After a contest that spanned…
Ten graphs that Liz Truss can't ignore
The new Prime Minister’s honeymoon starts and ends today. Once Liz Truss formally enters Downing Street tomorrow she will be…
Will Liz Truss kill levelling up?
Levelling up is probably not even in the top tier of Liz Truss’s intray for this week, given the pressure…
Portrait of the week: Gorbachev dies, Gibraltar becomes a city (again) and Meghan’s Mandela moment
Home Liz Truss, the contender for the Conservative party leadership who is expected to become prime minister next Tuesday, resisted…
‘Those Jedi mind tricks don’t work on me’: Dominic Raab on Truss, Sunak and his own future
Dominic Raab on Truss, Sunak — and whether he will serve under them
Trussonomics: a beginner’s guide
Can a new economic plan get us through the winter?
Truss's Oxford Europhilia revealed
Throughout the leadership contest, Liz Truss has been all too keen to paint herself as a Brexit queen, keen to…
What the Tory leadership rivals haven’t discussed
In just over a week, Britain will have a new prime minister. No one can say that the 160,000 or…
I’d be the perfect communist shill
Could I be the model communist shill? Consider these facts: I was born and raised in China. I speak and…
Who will Liz Truss forgive?
Liz Truss has always been more popular with Tory party members than with Tory politicians. The moment of greatest peril…
Why political interviews matter
She’ll never do it. She’d have to be mad. Why take the risk? That’s what everyone said when I announced…
Thatcherism is a cult the Tories should not follow
Friedrich Nietzsche may not be the most fashionable member of the conservative canon, but doubtless he wouldn’t care much. He…
Sturgeon fires back at Truss
Miaow. The claws are out in the Tory leadership race, after Liz Truss took a pop at Nicola Sturgeon. The…
Is Liz Truss sowing the seeds of her own downfall?
Liz Truss looks to be winning a decisive victory for cold-eyed conservatism. A victory for I went to the school…
Truss turns on the media
To Darlington, for another of the endless Tory leadership hustings. Last night’s clash covered much of the same old ground…
Truss is ‘misinterpreted’, again
With four weeks left in the leadership race, how many more times is Liz Truss going to be ‘misinterpreted’? First,…
This is no way to pick a prime minister
‘Truss’s campaign to be Britain’s next prime minister,’ wrote one political commentator this week, ‘seems to have unstoppable momentum. She…
Can Liz Truss be trusted?
Liz Truss has taken the lead in the Tory leadership race with an agenda that seems radical and ambitious, whereas…
