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Trickle-down Truss is carrying on the dirty work of Thatcher, Blair and Osborne

Britain has endured 40 years of decline thanks to this faulty economic theory. Will Keir Starmer finally kill it off?, says Yanis Varoufakis, leader of MeRA25 in Greece’s parliament

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of Londoners face £10k mortgage blow as interest rates soar

Bank of England independence was no one’s first choice. Margaret Thatcher never did it, John Major preferred to devolve power to the German Bundesbank than grant it to Threadneedle Street. Because the power to set interest rates is an awesome one.

Evening Standard

Trust me, UK's Truss pursues charm offensive at her party conference

British Prime Minister Liz Truss heads to her Conservative Party conference next week with a packed diary of "meet and greets" to try to win over lawmakers angry over an economic plan that triggered market chaos and badly eroded support.

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Kaye Adams' Strictly debut was 'scariest moment of her life' as she felt like a 'granny'

Loose Women star Kaye Adams has opened up on her Strictly Come Dancing debut, admitting that she was riddled with insecurities over feeling like a 'granny' in a ballroom dress

Daily Mirror

Bombshell polls throw massive question mark over Liz Truss’s future as PM

Tory meltdown after ‘unforced error’ Budget gifts Keir Starmer leads of up to 33 points

The Independent UK

Trussonomics has been exposed as a childish absurdity. Trussopolitics is even worse

The prime minister and Kwasi Kwarteng must now eat humble pie and try to steer Britain out of the crisis they created, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss defends Budget but stops short of guaranteeing people’s pensions are safe

Former Chancellor Ken Clarke accused Kwasi Kwarteng of having ‘rushed out’ his fiscal statement last Friday

Evening Standard

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No Margaret Thatcher? UK PM Truss's tax cuts trigger market mayhem

There's a run on the pound and panic in the markets over the UK's biggest tax cut for the rich in half a century. New Prime Minister Liz Truss is taking the concept of "going for broke" to a whole new level, with an almighty gamble that the deficit will…

France 24

Labour 'in the game' for 14 Scottish seats at Westminster, Anas Sarwar claims

ANAS Sarwar has claimed that Labour will be “in the game” in as many as 14 Scottish constituencies in the next General Election.

The National (Scotland)

Rishi Sunak’s unlikely friendship with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni — a symbol of the Tories’ right-wing turn?

She’s spoken highly of Mussolini and is known for her nativist views — what does it say about Sunak’s political intentions? Katie Strick reports

Evening Standard

Scotland will not be ‘drag on Labour ticket’ at next election, says Sarwar

Labour only have one MP in Scotland.

The Independent UK

Personality and Power by Ian Kershaw review – follow the leader… for good or ill

The great historian’s analyses of a dozen 20th-century democrats and dictators are individually cogent but his conclusions tend to the obvious

The Guardian - UK

Anas Sarwar: We’ll set out the positive case for backing us to boot out the Tories

The Scottish Labour leader and Record columnist say the party conference comes at a time of change at Westminster – with Truss taking over from Johnson – but the issues stay the same.

Daily Record

Nationalist Meloni set to smash Italy's glass ceiling, become premier

In 2019, Giorgia Meloni made a speech that came to define her: "I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian, and you can't take that away from me," she told cheering supporters.

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Netflix confirms release date of The Crown Season 5 with new cast as the royal family

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Handbagged; The Cherry Orchard; Clutch – review

Moira Buffini’s damning satire imagining the Queen’s weekly meetings with Margaret Thatcher acquires poignancy; James Macdonald directs Chekhov in outer space; and a driving lesson for us all

The Guardian - UK

Moving the British embassy to Jerusalem would be an outrage

Liz Truss’s pledge to Israel’s Yair Lapid to review the location has appalled the Palestinians and breaks international consensus

The Independent UK

Scottish Government will continue its ‘fairer’ approach to tax, says minister

Richard Lochhead spoke out in the wake of Friday’s mini budget from the UK Government.

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The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have made a declaration of class war

This unofficial budget is morally indefensible, economically reckless and so risky it suggests a political death wish, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Independent UK

Kwarteng package has ‘biggest tax cuts since 1972’, says leading economist

‘It is half a century since we have seen tax cuts announced on this scale,’ according to Paul Johnson, director of the IFS .

The Conversation

Why Liz Truss is no Margaret Thatcher when it comes to the economy

The UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, has made no secret of her admiration of her late predecessor, Margaret Thatcher. However, anyone expecting a swift return to Thatcherite policies in 2022 should probably take a closer look at Truss’s politics.

Al Jazeera

Who is Kwasi Kwarteng, the UK’s first Black chancellor?

And how does he plan to save the UK’s imperilled economy?

The Guardian - UK

When Trussonomics arrives, the big winner may well turn out to be Labour

The PM’s assault on economic orthodoxy is a leap in the dark with every prospect of backfiring spectacularly, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott

The Guardian - UK

Welcome to the First Blokes club! What can Hugh O’Leary expect as the prime minister’s husband?

Denis Thatcher seemed happy to do nothing but booze and play golf. Jacinda Ardern’s fiance throws himself into fishing. How will Liz Truss’s spouse cope with being in the spotlight?

The Independent UK

Special Relationship no more? Joe Biden and Liz Truss have much to disagree about ahead of their first meeting

The US president is governing on an agenda that is the polar opposite of the new prime minister’s plans for Britain, writes Richard Hall

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