Liz Truss left humiliated and speechless in series of local radio interviews trying to defend disastrous policies
“Where have you been”
Liz Truss
Prem Sikka: This mini-budget will only increase inequality and poverty
The biggest winners are corporations and the rich. As a result, the government’s borrowing will surge from £72.4bn, to £234.1bn, but won’t provide details of the impact on current and future generations.
Liz Truss unlikely to attend COP27 climate change conference, despite promising to do so
‘In July, Truss told a hustings of Tory MPs that she would be at the next UN climate change conference — due to be held in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, in November’
Wera Hobhouse MP: Liz Truss’s intervention does not go far enough
The cap Liz Truss would implement, at £2,500, still means your energy bills have doubled since this time last year
Liz Truss admits her tax cuts will benefit the rich more than the poor
She defended herself for taking ‘difficult decisions’
The shocking statistics which show how desperate the Daily Mail was for Liz Truss to become PM
“The fact that Mordaunt ultimately lost out to the Mail’s favoured candidate Liz Truss, who has gone on to win election as Prime Minister, shows how powerful newspapers still are in politics.”
Campaign launched to oppose Liz Truss’ plans to approve the biggest oil field in the North Sea
‘Rosebank won’t do anything to lower our energy bills, or make our energy supply safer.’
Another crushing blow for Brexit Britain: Liz Truss admits US trade deal out of reach
“There aren’t currently any negotiations taking place with the US and I don’t have any expectation that those are going to start in the short to medium term.”
Report shows little progress in identifying earthquake risk, as drilling licences expected to be issued next week
As fracking companies call for earthquake limits to be reduced and exploratory drilling could start as early as next week, a report shows reducing and predicting earthquake risk remains a ‘scientific challenge’
‘A kick in the teeth’: Truss could ditch junk food crackdown to ‘cut red tape’
A Tory U-turn is reportedly on the cards over anti-obesity measures, raising eyebrows over the PM’s connections to free-market think-tanks that lobbied against the legislation.