After being outlasted by a lettuce during her lasts stint as PM, Liz Truss has backtracked from suggestions she could run for office again.
Jeremy Hunt refused to say "anything negative" about Liz Truss as she "appointed him as chancellor." When asked by Sky News if he thought the former prime minister, who has been critical of government policy, is currently being helpful for the Conservative Party, the cabinet minister would not cast aspersions on his colleague. "I think Liz will be the first to accept that during her time as prime minister, mistakes were made," Mr Hunt said of Ms Truss's 49 days in office, in which the pound hit...
Liz Truss is back – kind of. The former PM of just 49 days has published a book, Ten Years to Save the West. The Guardian’s political correspondent Eleni Courea and breaking news correspondent Martin Pengelly discuss her seeming lack of regretDespite just 49 days in office during which the British pound reached an all-time low against the dollar in reaction to Liz Truss’s mini-budget, Truss remains defiant and has published her views on how to “save the west” in a book.Today in Focus host Helen...
Ten Years to Save the West is published by Biteback in the UK, which is owned by major Tory donor Lord Ashcroft.
A federal appeals court has ruled that insurance exclusions denying coverage for gender-affirming health care treatments are discriminatory.
The ex-PM has claimed the left are trying to 'smear' her. It resulted in Carol Vorderman breaking into fits of giggles.
A few days after our recent interview, science writer Joe Pappalardo took his 89-year-old dad to the Space X Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. Before he'd entered the facility, the elder Mr. Pappalardo had never seen anything like it. At the entrance, he examined the message inscribed on the giant outer wall: “GATEWAY TO MARS.”These kinds of declarative (and imperative) statements rouse something prelinguistic in us. For some reason, humans have evolved into conquerors, desperate for more...
It is unfortunate that column space should be dedicated to Britain’s shortest termed prime minister and, arguably, one of its most imbecilic and cringingly juvenile. But given that some people still sympathise with her and her views, it falls to one to tackle her latest work which resembles other types of the gloomy genre warning that More
Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf has refused to rule out an election during an interview on the future of the country’s government today (27 April). He revealed that he’d proposed a meeting with Ash Regan, who could be a key player in whether Mr Yousaf continues in power, as well as the opposition, asking for “good faith”. Regan has already written to the first minister setting out her demands in exchange for her support in the vote. When asked if an election could be on the cards, he...
Hilarious extract from Liz Truss's book leaves people contemplating whether it is real or fake. Have a watch here.
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The ex-PM's publishers apologise and agree to remove a fake quote tied to an antisemitic conspiracy theory.