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...Barrow began his Foreign Office career in 1986 and rose to become the second permanent secretary and political director at the department, before becoming national security adviser to Liz Truss, and now...
...He said he had backed the economic policies of former prime minister Liz Truss and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, adding that he “thought they were doing the right thing”, although he acknowledged: “I’m...
...Scholar was removed as Treasury permanent secretary as one of the first actions of former prime minister Liz Truss’s government in September last year....
...UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has launched a stinging attack against his predecessor Liz Truss, signalling how he will seek to distance his administration from her damaging economic legacy in the general...
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...But analysts say there is little sign that voters are ready to give Sunak credit for the improvement, as memories of the market crisis triggered by his predecessor Liz Truss hang heavily over the electorate...
...Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the plan to abolish national insurance would cost £46bn a year and was completely unfunded, drawing parallels to former premier Liz Truss’s disastrous “mini” Budget, which...
...The group also turns its attention to two very different former PMs, as the FT publishes major interviews with both Liz Truss and Gordon Brown this week....
...Lucy Fisher Robert, what are you looking at for the Budget?...
...Liz Truss, who was UK prime minister for just 49 days, has appointed three political allies to the House of Lords as she exercised a longstanding convention for former premiers to confer peerages and honours...
...Then-UK foreign secretary Liz Truss was one of a number of allies invited to attend an extraordinary meeting of the council in March 2022, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine....
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...If the polls are right Sunak will be an ex-prime minister at the age of just 44, younger than Liz Truss (47), David Cameron (49) and Tony Blair (54) when they left Downing Street....
...Is it in the wake of the disastrous 2022 mini-Budget of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng that Jeremy Hunt feels he has to do extra pitch rolling all the measures to get the markets ready?...
...Hunt arrived at the Treasury in October 2022 with the financial world crashing around him in the aftermath of Liz Truss government’s calamitous “mini-Budget”. His job was to pick up the pieces....
...He said it had echoes of unfunded tax cuts in the Liz Truss government’s ill-fated 2022 “mini” Budget. “They’ve learned absolutely nothing,” he added....
...Liz Truss, the shortlived Tory premier, appointed Hunt to clear up the mess bequeathed by the former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, whose “mini” Budget had sparked panic in the markets....
...She supported Sunak for the Tory leadership when Liz Truss’s premiership imploded in October 2022....
...Former UK prime minister Liz Truss and former Bank of England governor Mark Carney have traded recriminations, with each accusing the other of having harmed the UK economy....
...After almost a year in the political wilderness following her dramatic exit from Downing Street, former UK prime minister Liz Truss has regained her voice....
...So, for example, Liz Truss as prime minister was very relaxed about immigration. She thought the numbers should go up....
...Citing the dismal record of former premier Liz Truss and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng on the economy, Herron said she was unsure who to back on Thursday....
...And that was actually not just the problem with Rishi Sunak’s press conference, say, but in general, the problem with a lot of what Rishi Sunak does politically — and this was true when he was fighting Liz...
...His predecessor Liz Truss and former cabinet ministers Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Ranil Jayawardena will launch the “Popular Conservatives” — a movement already dubbed the PopCons — on February 6....
...I’m Lucy Fisher and this is Political Fix from the Financial Times....
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