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Oct 20 2022
News
Liz Truss resigns as PM and triggers fresh leadership election
Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister and will step down after a week-long emergency contest to find her successor, she has announced outside Downing Street.
It follows a turbulent 45 days in office during which Truss’s mini-budget crashed the markets, she lost two key ministers and shed the confidence of almost all her own MPs.
Her statement came after she met Graham Brady,
The Guardian
Jul 05 2022
News
Chancellor, Health Secretary Resign from Boris Johnson’s Government amid Calls for PM to Step Aside
Rishi Sunak, chancellor of the Exchequer, Sajid Javid, secretary of state for health and social care, and Bim Afolami, the Tory vice-chair, all announced their resignations from Boris Johnson’s government on Tuesday, dealing a blow to the embattled prime minister of the United Kingdom.
National Review
Oct 21 2022
Analysis
No Truss
After Kwasi Kwarteng, Liz Truss’s chancellor of the Exchequer, had been shoved onto his sword in the wake of financial markets’ reaction to a “mini-budget” saturated supposedly with “free-market fundamentalism,” there was always a high probability that Truss would be looking at an early departure from 10 Downing Street. Once it became clear that not only had Truss lost her chancellor but also
National Review
Sep 06 2022
News
Liz Truss vows energy crisis action ahead of first day as PM
Liz Truss has promised to deal with surging energy costs and to cut taxes, after she won the Tory leadership contest to become the next PM.
Her plan, set to be announced on Thursday, is likely to include a freeze on energy bills - though precisely how it would work is still unclear.
Ms Truss will be formally appointed by the Queen at Balmoral Castle later, after a final speech by
BBC News
Jul 24 2022
News
Liz Truss Pledges To Strike Rwanda-Style Deportation Deals With Other Countries
Liz Truss has vowed to deport more migrants if she is elected prime minister.
The foreign secretary said she would strike more Rwanda-style deportation deals in a bid to halt small boats bringing illegal immigrants from France.
Truss, who is battling it out against Rishi Sunak for Boris Johnson’s job, also vowed to bolster Border Force staff by 20 per cent in a bid to deter
HuffPost
Jul 07 2022
Analysis
Boris Johnson’s Cautionary Tale
On the menu today: United Kingdom prime minister Boris Johnson announced this morning that, after a tumultuous and often-controversial three years in office, he would resign as soon as his Conservative Party picked a new leader. Quite a few conservatives look at Johnson and see a cautionary tale; his undisciplined character overwhelmed his intellect — although there’s also the parallel state
National Review
Sep 15 2021
Opinion
Have Canadians wearied of Trudeau's vapid wokeness?
Will the world’s wokest leader be reelected? When Justin Trudeau called the election to Canada’s 44th Parliament at the end of August, he was comfortably ahead in the polls. Crises bolster all but the most obviously useless incumbents, and Canada has had, as measured by deaths, vaccine rollout, and economic impact, a better pandemic than many comparable countries.
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Washington Examiner
Jul 10 2019
News
Can Anyone Beat Boris?
The question looms large over the future of the Tory party, British politics, and Brexit.
‘Can Boris Beat Boris?” the Remainer classes have been wondering since Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt emerged two weeks ago from the scrum of Tory leadership hopefuls to take their campaigns to the party grassroots, which will finally choose between them. It’s not so much a
National Review
Dec 13 2019
News
UK election: Johnson's Conservatives pick up massive majority, wreak havoc in Labour heartlands
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party was swept back into government Friday after an historic election night that saw opposition Labour Party strongholds across the country swing dramatically to the Tories -- making Britain's departure from the European Union a near-certainty, and immediately bringing a promise of a new trade deal from President Trump.
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