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When civil servants and MPs can’t speak up against ministers, they can’t do their jobs properly.
With an election ahead and finances stretched to capacity, the prime minister has a difficult balancing act to strike.
The gravity of the current situation is obscuring a less visible crisis – a failure of political imagination
Matt Hancock’s controversial appearance on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here raises important questions on the true purpose of MPs.
Sunak is the first person of colour to take the top post. But he faces a host of problems at home, as well as a Conservative Party tearing itself apart.
Sunak’s grandparents were born in India before travelling to East Africa, where his parents were born.
It has been a short but very eventful journey to the top for a man who has only been in parliament since 2015.
Many still speculate about what George Canning would have achieved had he not died 119 days into his premiership.
The law says MPs have to vote in favour of holding an election – and with the Conservatives facing huge losses, there’s little chance of them wanting one.
It is time for the Conservative Party to have a cup of tea, a Bex and good lie down.
The runners and riders in 2022’s second Conservative party leadership race.
The shortest serving prime minister in British history ran into trouble even before taking office.
The Conservative Party is hopelessly stuck in the 1980s, and it may yet be the undoing of Liz Truss as prime minister.
Only months into the job, Prime Minister Liz Truss is on her way out already, leaving her government in search of a new leader and a way to regain public trust.
The top office is not a playground for ideological experiment.
In her first party conference speech as prime minister, Liz Truss has emphasised that growth is the only solution.
Have the prime minister’s favoured tax cuts and supply-side reforms worked in the past?
Fracking resonates with anxieties over deindustrialisation and decarbonisation.
Too much has changed, economically and politically, since 1979.
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