Liz Truss
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2022
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Mary Elizabeth Truss is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from September to October 2022. On her fiftieth day in office, she stepped down amid a government crisis, making her the shortest-serving prime minister in British history. The member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk from 2010 to 2024, Truss held various Cabinet positions under three prime ministers—David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson—lastly as foreign secretary from 2021 to 2022.
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Ex-minister involved in Liz Truss's mini-budget criticised for 'work ethic' comments Opposition parties have criticised a former minister who said British people needed a greater work ethic - pointing out his record under Liz Truss.Sky News - Published | |
Liz Truss sends cease and desist letter to Starmer over claims she 'crashed the economy' Liz Truss' lawyers have sent a cease and desist letter to Sir Keir Starmer over his claims she "crashed the economy".Sky News - Published | |
Plenty of concern about UK economy but this isn't a Liz Truss moment How worried should Rachel Reeves be about the fact that the interest rates on government bonds have leapt to the highest level in more than a quarter of a century?Sky News - Published | |
Rachel Reeves avoids Liz Truss moment as markets stabilise UK markets stabilised on Friday, offering some reassurance to Rachel Reeves as investors, policy makers and business continued to absorb the scale and implications of her first budget.Sky News - Published | |
Liz Truss storms off stage after lettuce banner prank Liz Truss has stormed off stage after a banner featuring a lettuce and the words "I crashed the economy" unfurled behind her at an event.Sky News - Published | |
Truss hits out at 'weak' Biden as she attends Republican Convention in support of TrumpLiz Truss has branded Joe Biden a "weak president" as she attended the Republican National Convention in support of Donald Trump.Sky News - Published | |
Once a Tory stronghold, now even Liz Truss' constituency hangs in the balanceIn 2019 Liz Truss was once again elected MP for South West Norfolk - her fourth election win.Sky News - Published | |
Call to de-select Liz Truss who is set to appear on 'hateful platform'Rishi Sunak has been urged to de-select Liz Truss as a Tory election candidate after she appeared on a platform founded by a YouTuber who made comments about raping a Labour MP.Sky News - Published | |
Who is the Tory MP that backed Liz Truss for PM but has now defected to Labour?It has been fewer than two years since Labour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told Tory MP Natalie Elphicke to "f*** off" for criticising Marcus Rashford at the Euros. Now they are colleagues.Sky News - Published | |
Truss refuses to apologise for sparking mortgage rate rise - but admits one failing as PMLiz Truss has acknowledged she and her government lost the confidence of financial markets following the mini-budget of October 2022 – but has refused to apologise to homeowners for higher interest..Sky News - Published | |
What Liz Truss and Donald Trump have in commonLiz Truss has much more in common with Donald Trump than just the first three letters of his surname.Sky News - Published | |
Liz Truss's book in breach of rules in place on minister's memoirsLiz Truss's memoir broke the rules in place for ministers publishing works about their time in office.Sky News - Published | |
'I've read enough Liz Truss books': Minister snubs ex-PM's new memoirA government minister has said she won't be reading Liz Truss's memoir of her brief time in Downing Street as "that's a period I'm not interested in re-visiting".Sky News - Published | Liz Truss refuses to rule out return as Tory leaderLiz Truss has refused to rule out running to be Tory leader again, saying she has "unfinished business" with the Conservative party.Sky News - Published |
Truss was 'ecstatic' with mini-budget plan and claims Number 10 infested with fleas in new memoirLiz Truss has revealed she considered abolishing the UK's economic watchdog and replacing leaders at the Treasury and Bank of England, accusing the bodies of being "pro-China" and "pro-Remain".Sky News - Published | Truss 'furious' after MPs accused of blocking transgender reform billA controversial proposal to ban transgender women from female-only spaces will not be debated after both Tory and Labour MPs were accused of filibustering a bill drawn up by Liz Truss.Sky News - Published |
Tory plan to abolish national insurance 'will cost more than Liz Truss mini-budget' - LabourLabour is demanding the Tories spell out how they will pay for a "reckless" plan to abolish national insurance contributions.Sky News - Published | Rishi Sunak told to remove whip from Liz Truss for 'propagating conspiracy theories' on US visitLabour has called on Rishi Sunak to consider removing the whip from Liz Truss after her appearance in the US sparked controversy.Sky News - Published |
World needs Republican back in White House, Liz Truss saysLiz Truss has said the world "needs a Republican back in the White House", adding that "we've seen Joe Biden asleep at the wheel".Sky News - Published | Rees-Mogg attacks 'po-faced puritans' over Truss honours criticismSir Jacob Rees-Mogg has attacked critics of Liz Truss' honours list, calling them "po-faced puritans".Sky News - Published |
Liz Truss resignation honours revealed as Kwarteng and cabinet miss outKwasi Kwarteng, Therese Coffey and the rest of Liz Truss's cabinet have missed out on getting gongs or places in the House of Lords as part of her resignation honours list.Sky News - Published | Even Sunak backers fear the PM's made the 'wrong decision' picking a fight over the Elgin MarblesRishi Sunak hasn't had many wins in his short premiership. But one he could legitimately claim was being a prime minister who improved Britain's standing in the world - drawing a line under the bumpy..Sky News - Published |
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe spoke to Liz Truss in a very 'angry manner' before her releaseNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says former prime minister Liz Truss looked at her situation "from a different angle" because she was a mother.Sky News - Published | Truss criticised for taking from fund for ex-PMs despite 49 days in officeLiz Truss has been claiming cash from the £115,000-a-year public fund awarded to former prime ministers to run their offices, despite serving for just 49 days.Sky News - Published |
Liz Truss fires starting gun on frontline return - but is anyone really listening?Nearly a year since the mini-budget that secured her place as Britain's shortest serving prime minister, Liz Truss is back.Sky News - Published | Unrepentant Truss lays blame for economic woes elsewhere - but admits going too far, too fastAn unrepentant Liz Truss has sought to blame a left-wing infiltration of thinktanks, the Bank of England and other "institutions" for the market turmoil during her brief premiership.Sky News - Published |
Liz Truss turned Britain into 'Argentina on the Channel', says ex-Bank of England bossA former governor of the Bank of England has launched a scathing attack on Liz Truss - accusing her government of turning Britain into "Argentina on the Channel".Sky News - Published | Liz Truss to urge government to cut taxes - and insist her economic plan would have workedLiz Truss is set to urge the government to cut taxes - and insist her plan to grow the economy would eventually have worked.Sky News - Published |
Liz Truss's chancellor feels 'let down' by her - as reveals they haven't spoken since his sackingFormer chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has revealed how he feels "let down" by Liz Truss as he accused her of "total capitulation" following her failed agenda.Sky News - Published | Kwarteng admits his mortgage repayments have gone up 'considerably' since his mini-budgetFormer chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has admitted he has been "affected" by his own mini-budget which was blamed for creating economic turmoil while Liz Truss was prime minister.Sky News - Published |
Johnson and Truss received £18,660 pay-outs after resigning as PMBoris Johnson and Liz Truss both received £18,660 as severance payments after they stood down as prime minister, annual accounts have shown.Sky News - Published | 'It's a long game' - Liz Truss hints her disastrous mini-budget would have worked outLiz Truss has hinted she believes her disastrous mini-budget could have worked out for the UK economy in the long term.Sky News - Published |
Liz Truss launches 'Growth Commission' - as first report claims Britons are £10,000 worse off than AmericansA new economic organisation, set up by Liz Truss, will launch on Wednesday, with a report claiming the average British person is £10,000 worse off than people in the US.Sky News - Published | Why Sunak and Biden are struggling to keep spark of special relationship alive | Adam BoultonMonday will mark the sixth meeting between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and US President Joe Biden - and their seventh encounter in all as both were at official functions for the funeral of Queen..Sky News - Published |
Ex-chancellor criticises Truss for 'ignoring' Treasury warnings against her disastrous mini-budgetFormer chancellor Sajid Javid has criticised Liz Truss for ignoring the Treasury's warnings about the market consequences of her disastrous mini-budget.Sky News - Published | Liz Truss calls for UK to have plan if Russia collapsesFormer prime minister Liz Truss has called on the government to have a plan in place in case the Russian government under Vladimir Putin collapses.Sky News - Published |
Truss says lettuce live stream was 'puerile' and claims of dressing similar to Thatcher are 'lazy thinking'Liz Truss has described comparisons of her dress sense to Margaret Thatcher's as "lazy thinking" - and said last year's lettuce live stream was "puerile".Sky News - Published | Grand diplomat or miserable failure? What Liz Truss has been up to since she quit as PMWhat is Liz Truss up to?Sky News - Published |
Sunak rejects calls from Truss to fast-track Taiwan's entry to trading bloc Rishi Sunak has rejected Liz Truss's calls for Taiwan to be fast-tracked into a trans-Pacific trading bloc.Sky News - Published | Liz Truss urges Rishi Sunak to describe China as a 'threat' to UK security Former prime minister Liz Truss will call for her successor Rishi Sunak to say China is a "threat" to UK security.Sky News - Published |
Dig at Liz Truss over Taiwan visit where she will tell West to 'get real' on military aid The Government has taken a swipe at Liz Truss ahead of a high-profile trip to Taiwan where she is set to urge a tougher line towards China.Sky News - Published | Truss to visit Taiwan in 'solidarity' over increasing threats from China Liz Truss will visit Taiwan next week to give a speech about democracy in the face of "increasingly aggressive behaviour from China".Sky News - Published |
Liz Truss contests '£12K' bill relating to her use of grace-and-favour home Liz Truss is disputing a bill she has been asked to pay relating to a country house which she had use of as foreign secretary.Sky News - Published | Liz Truss to urge West to 'get real' about China threat in comeback speech Liz Truss will warn of a "global battle between free societies and dictatorships" in a speech in the US designed to revive her economic and political agenda.Sky News - Published |
Truss told family of British hostage in Iran he was not her 'problem' Liz Truss told the family of a British hostage who was set to be released by Iran with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe that he was not her "problem" anymore, MPs have claimed.Sky News - Published | Truss accused of compiling 'list of shame' for reported resignation honours list Liz Truss has been accused of compiling a "list of shame" following reports the ex-prime minister is set to nominate four close supporters for peerages.Sky News - Published |
PM secures new post-Brexit deal with EU on Northern Ireland: Five key sections of the text | Sam Coates analysis Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has negotiated a deal on Northern Ireland and Brexit which his predecessors Liz Truss, Boris Johnson and Theresa May could not have secured.Sky News - Published | Boris Johnson and Liz Truss call on PM to send fighter jets to Ukraine immediately Boris Johnson and Liz Truss have called on Rishi Sunak to provide fighter jets to Ukraine immediately.Sky News - Published |
UK's 'golden era' with China 'sent wrong message', says Truss Liz Truss will call on world leaders to stand up to China in her first speech since resigning as prime minister.Sky News - Published | |
