Tag: Liz Truss
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Truss and Thatcherism
There was a tendency, noticeable during the last few days, to dub the economic measures adopted by PM Liz Truss and her Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng, prior to their forced exit, as the job of a pair of crackpots and deviants who acted on their own.
October 29, 2022 -
“I will do everything I can…” New UK PM Rishi Sunak promises Britain a hopeful future
Newly elected UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak on Wednesday night attended a Diwali reception at 10, Downing Street and pledged to provide Britain with a hopeful future.
October 27, 2022 -
Let’s feel good, sure, but Rishi is a British dish
This Diwali is illuminated with added lights and the aroma of sweets for British Indians, for sure. As soon as ‘Dishy’ Rishi’s premiership was confirmed at 2:00 BST on 24 October, one of my acquaintances living in Warwick
October 26, 2022 -
Rishi Sunak takes over as new British Prime Minister
The new Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak officially become the British prime minister following his meeting with King Charles III, where he was asked to form the next government.
October 25, 2022 -
Anti-Labour Party
In politics, self-sabotaging acts are so common that they rarely surprise veteran observers. At the bitter root of most shoot-oneself-in-the-foot idiocies is stubborn blindness occurring when a leadership asserts its self-preservation over the good of Party members.
October 22, 2022 -
Rishi Sunak crosses minimum nomination threshold to contest in PM race
Sunak had thanked supporters who backed him in the Conservative Party race and said now it was time for all of them to unite behind the new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss.
October 22, 2022 -
‘Cannot deliver mandate’: Liz Truss quits as UK Prime Minister
Truss had succeeded Boris Johnson in early September, after emerging triumphant in the Conservative Party leadership contest over former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak.
October 20, 2022 -
Winter of discontent
On paper, the man who predicted everything that would go wrong with Ms Truss’ economic prescription for Britain, and which did go horribly wrong once she embarked on the path she had set out on, ought to be the front-runner to succeed her, especially as he did enjoy some support within the party.
October 20, 2022 -
UK PM ‘sorry’ for economic ‘mistakes’ but embattled Liz Truss vows to stay on
Asked if she was now prime minister in name only, Truss said she had appointed Hunt because she knew she had to change direction, reported Australian daily, The Islander.
October 18, 2022 -
Liz Truss’s conservative government takes U-turns on plan to scrap 45p tax rate
The British government has announced it will reverse plans to scrap the highest rate of income tax, following a major backlash to its proposed "growth plan".
October 3, 2022 -
Britain’s new phase
Suffice it is to register that British history has entered a new phase and the world must hope that the power vacuum will be filled.
September 8, 2022 -
Liz Truss to become UK PM, pledges to “start cutting taxes from day one”
Truss has also worked for three former prime ministers. She was promoted by David Cameron to environment secretary and worked as justice secretary under Theresa May. She was eventually made foreign secretary by Boris Johnson in 2021.
September 6, 2022 -
Truss trounces Sunak in Tory leadership battle, to be next UK PM
Truss, who succeeds Boris Johnson, will be the third woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May, all of from her Conservative Party.
September 5, 2022 -
Jaishankar speaks to British minister over travel between two nations
"Good to talk to UK Foreign Secretary @trussliz. Agreed to facilitate travel between our two countries. This will help to implement the Roadmap 2030," Jaishankar tweeted later.
October 8, 2021