Liz Truss
This deal with Japan is little more than cheese and biscuits
A small cheer for Liz Truss’s treaty with Japan. It is, says the official press release, ‘the UK’s first major…
The true cost of the 14-day quarantine
Doing the math, as the Americans say, became this column’s theme after I abandoned another planned trip to France. Seven…
Liz Truss: the Tories can win over the Boohoo generation
‘Get some boomerangs,’ Liz Truss says to her aides. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury isn’t looking for something to…
The spending cuts Osborne flatly refused to make
The Autumn Statement on 25 November had long been circled in Downing Street diaries as the season’s defining political moment.…
If the Tories win the election, the Gove gamble will have paid off
‘There’s no shame in a cabinet to win the next election,’ declared an exasperated senior No. 10 figure on Tuesday…
A misogynistic reshuffle
The PM doesn’t want the new women in his cabinet to do anything but look nice
