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?
The proposals had been branded ‘extremely dangerous’ by the chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life when they were first suggested.
‘We inherited a bunch of formulas from the Labour Party that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone.’
Despite the government’s persistent levelling up rhetoric, poorer cities, predominantly in the north, are being hit harder by the cost of living crisis.
The free market think tank says we shouldn’t tax oil companies more as BP and Shell announced record profits
‘This isn’t just a dip caused by Boris Johnson’s lies and PartyGate, it’s an indicator of a more serious problem facing the Conservatives as they lose the support of rural communities.’
‘We’ve come full circle, with Labour’s motion now likely to pass, without a full vote’
Tories rallied to defend Boris Johnson as it was revealed that he and Chancellor Rishi Sunak had been fined by police.
Oliver Dowden went to give a speech about ‘cancel culture’ this week to an organisation that wants to ban books they disagree with.
Boris Johnson has run out of road
