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Back to SearchAre Truss’s tax cuts dead? Politics Weekly UK
Under pressure from the markets, the IMF, and her own MPs, will Liz Truss have to reverse the tax cuts she outlined in her mini-budget? The Guardian’…
3 years, 5 months ago
In Truss we trust? Politics Weekly UK
Liz Truss used her first conference speech as leader of the Conservative party to try to reassert herself. Did she manage it? The Guardian’s Gaby Hin…
3 years, 5 months ago
Can the Conservatives get a grip? Politics Weekly UK
It’s been a busy few days for the Conservative party. Rebel MPs pushed the chancellor into announcing a U-turn on abolishing the 45p top rate of inco…
3 years, 5 months ago
Is Labour ready for government? Politics Weekly UK
Keir Starmer has set out his alternative vision for the country at Labour’s annual conference. Against the backdrop of market turmoil and the governm…
3 years, 5 months ago
Kwasi Kwarteng’s budget gamble – Politics Weekly UK
The mini-budget has landed and there was nothing mini about it. Big tax announcements such as abolishing the 45% additional rate of income tax as wel…
3 years, 6 months ago
Liz Truss: making the rich richer? Politics Weekly UK
Scrapping the bankers’ bonus cap, slashing taxes and lifting the moratorium on fracking. Liz Truss says she is prepared to be ‘unpopular’ to boost th…
3 years, 6 months ago
Pomp, protest and a closed down country – Politics Weekly UK podcast
It’s been a week of wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Meanwhile anti-monarchy protesters have been arrested, food banks close…
3 years, 6 months ago
The political legacy of Queen Elizabeth II – Politics Weekly UK
As Prince Charles becomes king, the Guardian’s John Harris is joined by the columnist Gaby Hinsliff and Gavin Barwell, an adviser to the former prime…
3 years, 6 months ago