George Canning, now the second-shortest-serving prime minister of the United Kingdom.
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Many still speculate about what George Canning would have achieved had he not died 119 days into his premiership.
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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.
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It is time for the Conservative Party to have a cup of tea, a Bex and good lie down.
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The runners and riders in 2022’s second Conservative party leadership race.
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The shortest serving prime minister in British history ran into trouble even before taking office.
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When government whips turned a vote on fracking into a vote of confidence in the government, confusion ensued.
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After years of testing the limits of British democracy, the government finally got a taste of its own medicine when Labour used a parliamentary mechanism to lay Tory divisions bare.
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The Conservative Party is hopelessly stuck in the 1980s, and it may yet be the undoing of Liz Truss as prime minister.
Another prime minister shown the door.
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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 UK government is becoming adept at U-turns.
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The UK government has not made things easy for businesses recently.
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The Conservative party is in chaos but that is perhaps a symptom of a wider problem in the British political system.
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt.
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UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s emergency budget announcement has calmed the market initially but experts see continued challenges.
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By sticking to a tax-cut plan made in 2018, the Albanese government must choose between debt and services.
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Liz Truss has appointed Jeremy Hunt to replace the chancellor who led on the now infamous mini-budget – but it may not be enough.
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The top office is not a playground for ideological experiment.
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Despite once holding promise, the UK’s climate compatibility checkpoint has become a formality.
Londoners queue to get fuel ration cards during the oil crisis of 1973.
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The prime minister’s main obsession could lead her down a dead end.
Liz Truss, mid-speech.
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In her first party conference speech as prime minister, Liz Truss has emphasised that growth is the only solution.
Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss at the Conservative Party Conference, October 2022.
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Some taxes are more popular than others in the eyes of the public.
What is she thinking?
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Have the prime minister’s favoured tax cuts and supply-side reforms worked in the past?