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When the rot sets in, past governments have found it hard to win back the public.
Sunak and Hunt may hope for some normality after the budget, but markets may not be so content with the details.
One of the Truss government’s few lasting acts was to cut regulations for small businesses to stimulate growth – but are rules a burden for such firms?
The gravity of the current situation is obscuring a less visible crisis – a failure of political imagination
Anthony Albanese exhibits many of the traits of previous successful Australian prime ministers.
Shakespeare often portrayed crises of legitimacy and reflected on the politics of his day but the Tories might not fare so well in a modern production.
Rishi Sunak is taking over as UK prime minister from Liz Truss during very difficult economic times.
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.
When government whips turned a vote on fracking into a vote of confidence in the government, confusion ensued.
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.
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 UK government has not made things easy for businesses recently.
The Conservative party is in chaos but that is perhaps a symptom of a wider problem in the British political system.
UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s emergency budget announcement has calmed the market initially but experts see continued challenges.
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