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'Why I'm trying to get away from Liz Truss'
"The show is about me just trying to get away from Liz Truss," she said. "She only lasted the 49 days [as prime minister] so my career started and finished quite quickly." Ms Truss resigned ...
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Lee Anderson demands Jess Phillips' resignation after ‘disgusting’ riot tweet
Labour minister Jess Phillips is under huge pressure this morning as she faces demands to resign over a highly controversial post appearing to defend rioting Muslims in Birmingham. Last night ...
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Oct 20, 2022 · How did it come to this? The simplest explanation is that Truss, who campaigned on a platform to deliver “growth, growth, growth,” achieved just the opposite.
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- Poor Party Process
- Poor Policy
- Poor Presentation
- Poor Positioning
Truss practised poor politics from the very beginning of her tenure. She refused to appoint anyone into government that had not supported her campaign, leaving her with a limited pool of talent. Her stance that you were either a friend or an enemy (and enemies were out) gave her a reputation for revenge. Not a good start. There was an obvious lack ...
But the cracks were emerging even before Truss took office as a direct result of the way the Conservative party elects its leaders. Truss ended up in the final round of the contest as much by default as anything else and did not enjoy the enthusiastic support of her parliamentary party. In order to win the leadership election, she sold herself to t...
The level of misalignment was clear from the minute Truss’s self-mutilating mini-budget was announced. Removing barriers on bankers bonuses and reducing business taxes was never going to land well in the middle of a cost of living crisis. The optics were all wrong, as any first-year politics student would know.
Politics is, at the end of the day, a people business. You need to be able to communicate, resonate, connect and empathise. The most important form of intelligence for a prime minister is not therefore intellectual (we have experts) or financial (they have advisers) but emotional. The simple fact is that Truss never seemed to be able to relate or r...
If the troubles of Truss reveal one thing it is most probably the dangers of the British constitution. It remains a power-hoarding constitution where an incredibly small number of people can make massive decisions with very little, if any, scrutiny. Her sideliningof the Office for Budgetary Responsibility being a case in point. “Poor, poor, poor” m...
Oct 21, 2022 · Liz Truss has quit as leader of the Conservative Party after just 44 days in office, and will be replaced as prime minister. She is set to become the shortest serving prime minister in...
Oct 20, 2022 · Liz Truss will become the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, after announcing her intention to resign just six weeks into a disastrous term that pitched Britain deep into...
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Oct 20, 2022 · LONDON — British Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced her resignation following weeks of criticism from her opponents and members of her own Conservative Party and the resignation of...
Oct 20, 2022 · LONDON — Prime Minister Liz Truss of Britain announced her resignation on Thursday, bringing a swift end to a six-week stint in office that began with a radical experiment in trickle-down...
Oct 20, 2022 · Liz Truss announced she will resign as Britain’s prime minister after a disastrous six-week tenure, making her the UK’s shortest-serving prime minister ever.
