“... investment in new firms and technologies because they’re too resentful towards the taxman. Liz Truss, so desperate to draw comparisons with Thatcher that she appeared to have dressed up as her idol for the Channel 4 leadership debate, has described government targets for housebuilding as ‘Stalinist’. Rishi Sunak, meanwhile, has internalised ...”

“... most frequently around trans rights and refugees, but lacks a discernible political philosophy. Liz Truss failed to outlast a lettuce in Downing Street but is now touring the world touting her zombie Thatcherism, supported by a hard core of backbench MPs and a gaggle of heterodox Conservative donors. (Jeremy Hosking, who funds the Critic, gave her ...”

“... Relations at the Library of Congress), and foreign policy adviser to both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss; this month he was commissioned to lead yet another defence policy review. In 2016, Bew published a biography of Clement Attlee, whom he described as looking to the US on foreign affairs and as being a gatekeeper against elements in the British ...”

“... ministers’. It’s not all that difficult to come top in a popularity league table that includes Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, the only slightly less discredited Cameron and the still intensely divisive Blair, Brown’s former close comrade and then bitter rival. Yet, at the age of 75, Brown has regained much of the credibility and moral authority, even ...”

“... election when Morgan McSweeney, who had worked with Cruddas in Dagenham and ran the Blairite Liz Kendall’s disastrous leadership bid in 2015, took over as director. Publicly, Labour Together remained a cross-factional campaign group; privately, it was attempting under McSweeney to wrest control of the party. Its offices in Vauxhall had a pirate flag on ...”

“... provided by Andy Mayer from the Institute of Economic Affairs, the think tank that ‘incubated’ Liz Truss. He didn’t dispute climate science, but offered a Panglossian vision of four degrees of warming in which ‘Britain would be like Italy in the 1980s.’ Viscount Christopher Monckton then asked the audience if anyone thought net zero policies ...”

“... around the face. The deal was brokered by an adviser to the Board of Trade, which is chaired by Liz Truss, who just happened to be a senior board adviser at Ayanda. NHS data has been signed over not only to Amazon and Google but also to Palantir Technologies, the big data firm set up by the PayPal co-founder and Republican Party funder Peter Thiel, and ...”

“... of having arrived in other places that matter. The newly elected leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss, travelled to Balmoral on 6 September 2022 to be officially appointed prime minister, the 15th that the 96-year-old queen had appointed in her 70-year reign.Truss packed a lot into her 44-day premiership: the ...”

“... has moved up a gear. It has now found a target at the heart of the ‘deep state’: the Treasury. Liz Truss’s supporters have made remarkably vindictive attacks on her rival Rishi Sunak’s management of the economy as chancellor, as if it had been executed independently of Johnson’s cabinet, in which she served. The relative restraint of Sunak’s ...”

“... is a new approach to education, one that gives … schools far greater freedom,’ said Liz Truss, then still a minister in the DfE. ‘We know that many will grab it with great gusto.’ In other words, the DfE wasn’t going to publish lots of stuff to help them. So Pearson, and lots of others, have been stepping in. I met an interesting ...”

“... of getting inflation down. Unlike in September last year, when rates spiked in response to Liz Truss’s suicidal ‘mini-budget’, the recent surge in mortgage rates is fuelled less by panic and uncertainty than by a sober assessment of the fix the bank is in. And unlike last autumn, when Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt were parachuted in to rescue ...”

“... leadership reached new heights under Boris Johnson (and threatens to rise even further under Liz Truss), so this should be easy enough. But the SNP has held power in Scotland for fifteen years and has its own list of embarrassments, notably in the areas of public health, education and industrial policy. Compared to low life expectancy, the highest ...”

“... to run Lambeth Council and organising against the BNP in Barking and Dagenham. In 2015 he led Liz Kendall’s doomed Labour leadership campaign (she got 4.5 per cent of the vote). In 2020, he was back for another round. Baldwin says that Starmer is not ‘hyper-political’. But McSweeney is. He predicted – rightly – that only 20 per cent of party ...”