‘It’s the Mayo supporter in me’: the Ballycastle Labour woman battling for Tory Kwasi Kwarteng’s old seat
Spelthorne was once considered unwinnable for Labour but Mayo woman Claire Tighe has made it as toss up
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‘Why me?’: Liz Truss shares reaction to death of queen on her second day as PM in new book
Former UK prime minister’s new memoir shows she is isn’t backing down despite being blamed for almost collapsing the British economy
The trouble is that the fiscal system will break and there will be no happy ending
Budgetary policy is so difficult that most countries in the west are unlikely to live happily ever after
The budget is broadly popular but that doesn’t mean the Government is
The stability message is unlikely to wash with 20-somethings stuck living at home
Former British PM Liz Truss criticises media for treating politics as a ‘soap opera’
EBU director general, Noel Curran, urges media to call out attacks on its freedom and independence
London office market collapse is stark by any measure
Sales of offices in London essentially stopped after the Truss government’s ‘mini-budget’
Kwasi Kwarteng says he and Liz Truss ‘got carried away’ writing mini-budget and ‘blew it’
British cabinet minister tells the Financial Times Liz Truss felt ‘invincible, almost regal’
UK government needs to stop doing stupid stuff around Brexit
Martin Wolf: It would be wonderful if the Tory administration could start doing sensible stuff
Cliff Taylor: Ireland, like the UK, will have to face up to how it pays its bills
The British experience is a reminder that high-debt countries walk a tightrope, particularly with interest rates again on the rise.
Kwasi Kwarteng: I told Liz Truss to slow down economic reforms
Former chancellor criticises ex-PM’s ‘mad’ decision to sack him
Jennifer O’Connell: Liz Truss lettuce livecam might be the moment political debate reached a nadir
If you insist on treating politics as entertainment, you are liable to get what you asked for
Schroders’ division housing LDI lost €23bn in assets after UK mini-budget
Business that builds the multi-asset and derivatives strategies for pension funds fell from £225bn to £205.5bn
Liz Truss’s administration is now living from hour to hour
British PM’s grip on power looks ever more tenuous as home secretary quits and MPs rebel
Liz Truss apologises for mistakes and vows to lead Tories into next election
Jeremy Hunt ditches economic strategy and drops ‘almost all’ tax cuts announced by predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng
Sterling and UK bonds rally as Hunt reverses mini-budget measures
UK chancellor outlines measures to tackle government’s deficit
New chancellor Jeremy Hunt faces a mammoth task — restoring Britain’s credibility
Markets have refused to finance the fantasies of the Brexit revolutionaries and opinion polls show that ordinary people have had enough
Three Tory MPs break ranks to demand Liz Truss quits
New chancellor signals plans to effectively scrap economic vision that brought UK prime minister to power
Markets take back control as UK’s low tax gamble falls apart
Post-Brexit Britain has no real notion of what it wants from the process or where it is going in policy terms
Jeremy Hunt welcomed by Tories as he rips up Liz Truss’s fiscal plan
Some Conservative MPs say the chancellor has effectively taken over British government: ‘Jeremy is saying: I’m in charge now’
New British chancellor admits ‘mistakes’ made and warns some taxes will rise
‘Very difficult decisions ahead’: Jeremy Hunt said the country and markets want stability
Kwarteng is gone and Truss can’t be far behind
Cantillon: Budget plan to supercharge the economy succeeded only in portraying Tories as an inept party for the rich
Liz Truss sacks chancellor and makes another budget U-turn
Investors and MPs jittery after UK prime minister’s hasty press conference and appointment of Jeremy Hunt appointment as finance minister
Bonds slide again as investors say Truss U-turn did not go far enough
Analysts say prime minister’s decision to ditch £18bn corporate tax cut was not ‘enough of a pivot’
Truss becomes a zombie prime minister in record time
Sacking Kwarteng may buy her breathing room but her MPs still do not trust her
Liz Truss names Jeremy Hunt as chancellor amid market turmoil
Former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng fired as prime minister prepares corporation tax reversal
Kwarteng back in UK after cutting US trip short
Political crisis intensifies over British chancellor’s recent tax-cutting mini-budget
Pound nears two-week high as Kwasi Kwarteng leaves IMF meetings early
Bank of England governor’s gamble pays off as markets rally on reports of UK government U-turn
Ireland has been saved by fiscal prudence. Alas, there are no votes in that
The contrast with Britain’s economic mess, from Brexit to unfunded tax cuts, is an arresting reminder of the consequences of recklessness
Kwasi Kwarteng gives himself until Halloween to avoid fiscal horror show
UK chancellor brings debt-cutting plan forward to October 31st in bid to calm markets unsettled by ‘mini’ budget
Cliff Taylor: We can’t afford to be too smug as we watch the UK flail desperately
The assumption that corporation tax cash will steadily keep rolling into Ireland’s coffers is a highly dangerous one
Making the poor poorer is a false economy
Better than cutting benefits would be to get tough on the causes of welfare spending in the UK
Kathy Sheridan: Give me a boring politician any day of the week
While Truss and Kwarteng backtracked on tax cuts, UK Labour soared in the polls — something has shifted
Sterling helped by tax cut U-turn but outlook remains challenging
Traders are betting it will take a bigger UK government policy U-turn to restore credibility with markets
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