Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer and new Tory leader Rishi Sunak is set to become the next UK prime minister.
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Rishi Sunak is taking over as UK prime minister from Liz Truss during very difficult economic times.
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.
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Europeans living in the Uk and British people living in Europe say they’ve been giving more thought to their identities since Brexit.
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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.
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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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Research has long shown that criminalising otherwise law-abiding citizens for their drug use is no deterrent. It only damages their life chances, in a discriminatory fashion.
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.
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In her first party conference speech as prime minister, Liz Truss has emphasised that growth is the only solution.
The cabinet having an absolute hoot at their annual conference in Birmingham.
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It’s bad for the party of government – and the closer you look, the worse it gets.
A crowd gathers outside No.10 Downing Street in 1931.
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Crisis, which crisis?
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A quick look back at the history books might have deterred the prime minister from her extreme actions.