Gordon Brown warns of ‘national uprising’ if benefits are cut
The former prime minister has warned of nationwide uprising if the government fails to increase benefits in line with inflation.
Liz Truss
Full Fact: Liz Truss was not the first prime minister to attend a comprehensive school
The fact checkers concluded that the prime minister’s claim was incorrect.
Petition demanding an early general election hits more than 500,000 signatures
The petition, which calls for an ‘immediate general election to end the chaos of the current government’ has, as of today, received 557,976 signatures.
Nadine Dorries fears Liz Truss is becoming too right wing
You know things are bad when even Dorries is telling her leader to stop “lurching to the right”.
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Nadine Dorries suggests Liz Truss should call a general election.
“If Liz wants a whole new mandate, she must take to the country.”
Liz Truss dishes out a peerage and trade minister job to multi-millionaire Tory donor who is Jacob Rees-Mogg’s business partner
“Dominic Johnson CBE was appointed a minister of state jointly in the Department for International Trade and the Cabinet Office on 2 October 2022.”
Humiliation for the Daily Mail: Paper forced to change front page after government’s tax U-turn
“Just LOOK how they changed their front page between edition”
The five shortest-serving UK prime ministers in modern history – could Liz Truss steal the crown?
With Labour surging to a record lead in the polls and letters of no confidence being sent from Tory MPs hoping to trigger yet another leadership contest, is Truss about to become the shortest-serving UK prime minister in recent times?
Prem Sikka: We’re in the latest stage of a right-wing coup that began in the 1970s
‘The right-wing coup is no respecter of democracy. ‘