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The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

What the papers say – February 5

Liz Truss and the Duke of Sussex are back on the front pages this weekend.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss launches comeback after disastrous premiership claiming failed policies were right

UK’s shortest-serving prime minister has written 4,000 word essay that continues to defend catastrophic economic policy

The Independent UK

Liz Truss says tax cut plans were never given a chance and slams 'economic establishment'

The former prime minister has made her first detailed comments since the end of her tumultuous 49-day stint in the top job

Wales Online

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Liz Truss claims she wasn't given 'realistic chance' as she speaks out for first time since resigning as Prime Minister

“I assumed upon entering Downing Street that my mandate would be respected and accepted. How wrong I was."

Manchester Evening News

Liz Truss: I was never given a chance - old

Ex-PM has blamed Tory opponents and a ‘powerful economic establishment’ for the failure of her radical tax cutting agenda.

The Independent UK

'Striking firefighters and ambulance workers get blamed for the mess Tories got us in'

This Government has tried so hard to contribute to the economy, jokes Mark Steel. Nadhim Zahawi went as far as having to pay a £1million penalty when he got caught not paying his tax

Daily Mirror

Blackpool hit by earthquake that sounded like rattling train with furniture shaking

Residents in the seaside resort and nearby villages described seeing furniture shake and hearing a noise like a train as the town was hit by a tremor measuring 1.5 on the Richter scale

Daily Mirror

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Liz Truss says she didn’t get ‘realistic chance’ to enact tax-cutting agenda

Former PM writes that ‘powerful economic establishment’ and lack of party support contributed to her downfall

The Guardian - UK

David Tennant brands Tories ‘a team of f***wits’ in savage rant on Channel 4's Last Leg

Doctor Who star David Tennant didn't hold back when he spoke about the Conservative Party on Channel 4's Last Leg on Friday in an expletive-ridden rant

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss has 'half a hope' she can make a comeback and lead Tories in opposition

The ex-Prime Minister, ousted after just 50 days after a string of disasters, mis-steps and a mini-budget that threatened to crash the UK economy, thinks she has “lost the battle but this is a long game.”

Daily Mirror

'Weak' Rishi Sunak can't call an election as he knows he would lose, says Rachel Reeves

Labour's Rachel Reeves warned that Rishi Sunak is 'holding us back as a country' as he drowns in sleaze scandals - and says he lost to Liz Truss who 'in turn lost to a lettuce... He's not a winner this guy'

Daily Mirror

Truss to step back into political limelight before ‘hawkish’ China speech

The fleeting prime minister will head to Japan for a speech later this month.

The Independent UK

Mortgage hammer blow of £5,000 a year for London homeowners

250,000 London households comings off fixed loan deals will bear the brunt of announced interest rate rises

Evening Standard

Are we going to hell in a handcart? Only if you ignore these green shoots

How many times, dear reader, over the last few months, in conversations with friends and colleagues, over dinner or coffee, have you discussed how depressing the UK is right now? I had this very conversation with a Spanish friend of mine yesterday, who cannot wait to escape London for Madrid…

Evening Standard

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The National (Scotland)

Liz Truss comeback rumours intensify with return of supporters' WhatsApp group

WHISPERS of a Liz Truss comeback appear to be getting louder after several MPs have reportedly begun to join a WhatsApp group once used to bolster…

The Guardian - UK

Tory backbenchers plan to put pressure on Hunt to cut childcare costs

Exclusive: Group led by Siobhan Baillie want chancellor to use budget to relax rules and eliminate business rates for nurseries

The Independent UK

Ex-UK leader Truss to urge tougher China stance in Tokyo

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss will join the former leaders of Australia and Belgium at a conference in Tokyo later this month to call for a tougher international approach to China

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak refuses to commit to free hospital parking for nurses on Piers Morgan show

The interview with Piers Morgan comes as Rishi Sunak marks 100 days in No10 after succeeding disaster PM Liz Truss, who he lost to in the Tory summer leadership race

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Angry Stephen Kerr called out for noisy Holyrood speech

STEPHEN Kerr was called out by the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament on Thursday after delivering a noisy response to an SNP MSP’s…

The Guardian - UK

Sunak refuses to even utter the word crisis. But how else to describe his first 100 days?

Inertia on the NHS and obstinacy on strikes have left the equivocating PM clinging to a life raft, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Independent UK

Dominic Raab: Karate black belt under spotlight over bullying claims

Critics claim the Deputy PM caused civil servants to suffer ‘mental health crises’, while allies insist he is simply a ‘demanding’ boss.

Daily Mirror

All the scandals and sackings from Rishi Sunak's first 100 days in Downing Street

Rishi Sunak promised to end to the chaos and sleaze that plagued the Tories when he entered No10 last year. But after 100 days in office, the scandals are still swirling around the PM

The Independent UK

How Italy is learning from the UK’s Brexit mistakes

Senior Italian government officials say that the economic and social turbulence in Britain that has followed the withdrawal from the EU has been eye-opening, writes Kim Sengupta

The Independent UK

Sunak marks 100 days as UK prime minister as problems mount

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is marking 100 days in office

The Guardian - UK

Ratings sink and obstacles amass as Sunak completes first 100 days as PM

Advisers argue he has made progress, but the new intake are frustrated and voters believe he is ‘out of touch’

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