Elevenses: Taking Back Control
The Tory Party is in disarray, but MPs won’t sign their own death warrant just yet. Is it time for a general strike?
The Tory Party is in disarray, but MPs won’t sign their own death warrant just yet. Is it time for a general strike?
The newly-appointed chancellor is expected to increase taxes and cut public spending in moves that are unlikely to sate either side of the party.
Mr Hunt and Ms Truss will meet in her Chequers residence on Sunday as tax rises and spending cuts loom on the horizon.
"The one big thing that's happened since 2012 is Brexit... We were all lied to on an industrial scale."
Kwasi Kwarteng cancelled appointments at the IMF to fly home for urgent talks with Liz Truss.
The chancellor says he is ‘totally focused’ on delivering the tax-cutting package.
"At the end of day, the spark that lit this fire was very much the budget announcement.”
A lack of tension in government is what led to the PM exercising her worst impulses.
“It was a high speed, high pressure environment and we could, as David Cameron used to say, have prepared the pitch a bit better.”
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