Mini-Budget
Total 7 Posts
Why Liz Truss finally lost control of MPs
5 min read
After years of testing the limits of British democracy, the government finally got a taste of its own medicine when Labour used a parliamentary mechanism to lay Tory divisions bare.
Liz Truss is now a case study in poor leadership
4 min read
If you don’t like the idea of being held accountable and having to answer for your actions then a leadership role is probably not for you. The top office is not a playground for ideological experiment.
The week the wheels came off the Brexit Britain bus
18 min read
Professor Chris Grey’s analysis on how the Brexiters’ budget, which they say is crucial to Brexit, exposes their total incompetence (not a cunning plan), so that the crisis is a verdict on Brexit itself.
When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger
3 min read
Former PM Gordon Brown’s budget analysis sums up Liz Truss’s government plans perfectly. Wouldn’t it be good to be governed by grown-ups again?
Rats in a sack
6 min read
It’s all going so terribly well, isn’t it? Liz Truss is living down to expectations that she would prove to be the next worst Prime Minister in living memory and is doing so in spectacular style.
Truss’s dead cat splat
6 min read
If Liz Truss can do this much damage in 2 days, God knows what she can do in 2 years.
Mini budget 2022: Experts react to the new UK government’s spending and tax-cut plans
11 min read
What the experts say about the way the government plans to address the energy crisis and economic growth, among other key issues.