Britain’s new prime minister, Liz Truss.
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Since the Brexit referendum in 2016, Africa has slipped from its precarious but tangible place in UK political discourse.
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, pictured at the second Conservative leadership TV debate, are set to debate again on July 25 2022.
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Tax cuts could ease the burden on households and small businesses that are struggling, alongside tax increases for large firms.
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The prime minister wants to move onto other government businesses, but vote strikes and bargaining could throw a spanner in the works.
What happens now? Boris Johnson leaves parliament after the no-confidence vote.
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With 40% of his MPs voting against his leadership, how realistic are the prime minister’s hopes for survival?
The Johnson cabinet: how many of these people may be harbouring leadership ambitions?
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The prime minister has survived by 211 votes to 148.
An example of 18th-century right-wing conservative commentary: ‘The New Atalantis.’
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Anonymous satire by a 1709 political writer worked like today’s partisan clickbait.
Who’s in and who’s out?
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This is Boris Johnson’s first major cabinet reshuffle since the Conservatives’ general election victory.
Johnson arrives at the Conservative Party headquarters.
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Just what is Boris Johnson, the UK’s new prime minister: a liberal or conservative? A historian writing a book about Brexit, the focus of much of Johnson’s career, says the man is hard to pin down.