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<p>Liz Truss departing Conservative Campaign Headquarters in London after she became the new Conservative party leader and the next British prime minister in September 2022.</p>

culture

Book review: Truss diatribe is underdeveloped, contradictory, and offers little insight

During the recent UK election campaign, Liz Truss was the invisible woman, both weirdly familiar and completely unknowable and getting a sense of who she really is from this book is also difficult

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SGareth O'Callaghan: Simon Harris must put country before politics to stay in the job

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Eamon Quinn: Parallels between SVB collapse and 2008 banking crisis are very real

Fergus Finlay: Creeslough’s Fr Duffy is my choice for outstanding person of the year

UK economy

economy

Brexit proposals for City of London fall far short of 'Big Bang’

Daniel McConnell

SDaniel McConnell: Martin may have to make Northern Ireland top priority

Cabinet meeting

UK faces £35bn shortfall as it delays tax and spending plans

UK chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt is seeking to fill a fiscal shortfall of £35bn (€40. 4bn) when he sets out the government’s tax and spending plans next month, officials familiar with the matter said.

Wed, 26 Oct, 2022

Displacement And Famine In Drought Hit Somalia

Letters to the Editor: Long-term solutions for food insecurities

Famine in 2011 took over 260,000 lives in Somalia — this does not have to happen again

Mon, 24 Oct, 2022

Just Stop Oil protest

Maeve Higgins: Just Stop Oil is about a choice — profit for a few or survival for all

Activist: 'The real question is why millions aren’t in civil resistance rather than why I am'

Sat, 22 Oct, 2022

Liz Truss resignation

Mick Clifford: Truss typified the politics of magic thinking

The latest example of the calibre of character who stepped forward to fill the void — rising to the top at a time of upheaval through a combination of neck, bluff, guile, charm, and luck

Sat, 22 Oct, 2022

Liz Truss resignation

Irish Examine view: End of the party for Conservatives?

Ireland’s best hopes of progress may rely on a Labour victory at a general election

Sat, 22 Oct, 2022

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Irish Examiner view: Departure of Liz Truss must mark end of chaos in British politics

A general election seems the only sensible option to restore political order in Britain

Fri, 21 Oct, 2022

Liz Truss resignation

Britain's next prime minister could be known by Monday

It is hoped that a quick leadership race will eliminate the need for a time-consuming vote among ordinary party members.

Fri, 21 Oct, 2022

Liz Truss resignation

Daniel McConnell: Truss' resignation would be funny if it wasn't so serious

Relations with the Johnson government were the sourest any Irish Government had with the UK since the darkest days of the Troubles, much rests on who will replace Liz Truss after her dysfunctional reign.

Fri, 21 Oct, 2022

Liz Truss resignation

Liz Truss joins ranks of shortest-serving world leaders

Coup, assassination, abdication, suicide and illness — all have contributed to history’s shortest-serving leaderships, though none, in the literal sense at least, can be said to apply to Liz Truss.

Thu, 20 Oct, 2022

TUC congress 2022

Keir Starmer calls for immediate general election after '12 years of Tory failure'

Mr Starmer said British people could not afford ;another experiment at the top of the Tory party'

Thu, 20 Oct, 2022

Cost of living crisis

Traders say ‘markets are calling the shots' as Truss exits

This month of UK economic chaos will be a warning to any future British leaders about the risk of being reckless with the country’s finances, said UK traders after Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned.

Thu, 20 Oct, 2022

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Truss's stance on NI protocol was 'unhelpful', says Ahern

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has criticised Liz Truss, who has resigned as British Prime Minister, describing her stance on the Northern Ireland Protocol negotiations as unhelpful.

Thu, 20 Oct, 2022

Conservative Party Conference 2022

'Ambition greater than ability': Liz Truss’s rise from teen Lib Dem to shortest serving British PM

'I honestly believe she was given jobs – ministerial promotions – just to shut her up.'

Thu, 20 Oct, 2022

Prime Minister's Questions

Liz Truss battling open revolt as number of Tory MPs demanding she step down doubles

Tory MPs were wondering how long Ms Truss can last after the chaotic scenes in the House of Commons yesterday

Thu, 20 Oct, 2022

Tory turmoil

Braverman’s fall would be astonishing any other time. But chaos is the new normal in UK politics

With a humiliating admission and a show of defiance, she has left Liz Truss even deeper in the mire, writes Martin Kettle

Thu, 20 Oct, 2022

Brexit

British government set to delay Legacy Justice Bill until November

Bill would allow British government to effectively tear up parts of the arrangement governing trade across the Irish Sea post-Brexit

Tue, 18 Oct, 2022

Kwais Kwarteng resignation

S Fergus Finlay: Trussonomics failings could signal the end of trickle-down economics

You can only grow an economy by investing — in infrastructure, in education, and in decent and sustainable social services

Tue, 18 Oct, 2022

Tory turmoil

'Where is the prime minister?': Liz Truss mocked for being absent from parliament

Liz Truss has since been seen leaving at the back of Number 10 in a silver Range Rover, shortly before 3.50pm.

Mon, 17 Oct, 2022

Harry Burton cartoon: Liz Truss in a mess of her own making

Harry Burton cartoon: Liz Truss in a mess of her own making

Harry Burton's unique take on the crisis facing the Tory leader, only weeks into the job

Mon, 17 Oct, 2022

Prime Minister's Questions

S Terry Prone: Our Government makes the Conservatives look like amateurs

You have to hand it to Boris. In fairness, he pulled off one of the most difficult tricks in the book. The advice has always been that if you want to be remembered, in politics, you need to succeed a fool and be followed by a fool.

Mon, 17 Oct, 2022

Kwasi Kwarteng resignation

Irish Examiner view: Counting down on Truss premiership

If history is any yardstick, the British prime minister Liz Truss (39 days in office and counting) is not so much in the last chance saloon as staggering her way towards the swing doors marked “this way out”.

Sat, 15 Oct, 2022

Cost of living crisis

Jeremy Hunt is new UK chancellor as Kwasi Kwarteng is dramatically sacked

Former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has been named as Mr Kwarteng’s replacement, Downing Street said.

Fri, 14 Oct, 2022

Liz Truss at Prague summit

British market sell-off gets reprieve on talk of Truss U-turn

Sterling buoyed by reports that officials are working on reversal of sweeping tax cuts

Thu, 13 Oct, 2022

Liz Truss at Prague summit

Fergus Finlay: Liz Truss marks a downward step in decline of trust in British politics

Almost everyone believed that Boris Johnson was as low as trust in politics could fall. Truss, it transpires, can go lower

Tue, 11 Oct, 2022

Conservative Party Conference 2022

Irish Examiner view: Ireland waits for Labour majority in UK

Liz Truss’s intervention on Good Friday Agreement shows how difficult it will be for Ireland to deal with the current iteration of a Conservative Party that has clearly lost its way

Thu, 06 Oct, 2022

Conservative Party Conference 2022

Truss backs off from reviewing interest rate mandate of Bank of England

British Prime Minister Liz Truss backed the Bank of England’s authority to set interest rates independently, dropping previous mentions of a review into the central bank’s policy-making.

Wed, 05 Oct, 2022

Conservative Party Conference 2022

Gordon Brown: Kwasi Kwarteng may have U-turned, but huge spending cuts are still coming

Despite scrapping the 45p tax rate, Britain's government is clinging to £43bn of tax cuts. Public services and those on benefits will feel the pain

Tue, 04 Oct, 2022

Conservative Party Conference 2022

Fergus Finlay: There is the right way to introduce policy and there is the Liz Truss way

I don’t know what you make of the new TV series about Boris Johnson. It’s called This England, and apparently, there’s a sequel already in the works about Liz Truss. It’s going to be called This England, torn to shreds.

Tue, 04 Oct, 2022

cash

John Whelan: Contagion from UK mini-budget is a real worry for Irish industry

Many companies, including many Irish ones, have seen the value of their investments fall as sterling has drifted down

Sun, 02 Oct, 2022

Irish Budget 2023

Alison O’Connor: Anger and bitterness but we don’t have a bottomless pit of money

In the run up to Tuesday, as the billions kept rising, people in Government were resigned to the fact that the general response would still be a bit 'meh'

Fri, 30 Sep, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II death

Liz Truss claims controversial tax cuts are 'the right plan' despite UK financial crisis

Ms Truss has made the most turbulent debut of any British prime minister in peacetime

Thu, 29 Sep, 2022

Tube strike

Bank of Ireland value falls €1bn since UK financial turmoil onset

Shares in other Irish firms with large British operations also hit

Thu, 29 Sep, 2022

UK Chancellor Of The Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng Present Fiscal Plans

UK’s biggest tax cuts since 1972 trigger crash in the pound

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng slashes taxes on the wealthiest households and firms in a bid to boost growth

Fri, 23 Sep, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II death

British 10-year borrowing cost tops 3.5% for first time in over a decade

The yield on the Irish 10-year bond traded at over 2.54%

Thu, 22 Sep, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II death

British business hails plan to cap energy bills at half of market rate

The plan, which could cost the UK government up to £40bn, will be closely scrutinised ahead of the budget here next week.

Wed, 21 Sep, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II death

Irish Examiner View: Taking care of business amid the pageantry

Following the funeral at Westminster Abbey, the Taoiseach and the President will attend a reception at Church House hosted by British foreign secretary James Cleverly.

Mon, 19 Sep, 2022

Federal Reserve Powell

US and Britain expected to drive further hikes in interest rates this week

All eyes are focused squarely on the US Fed decision and chairman Jerome Powell’s press conference, where some investors have even bet on a mammoth 100 basis-point interest rate hike.

Sun, 18 Sep, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II death

Taoiseach to hold talks with British PM Liz Truss

Ireland is one of the few countries permitted to have so many attendees at Monday's funeral.

Sat, 17 Sep, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II death

Irish Examiner view: The price we pay for being always on

Blanket coverage of queen's death to continue ahead of Monday's funeral

Sat, 17 Sep, 2022

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Right-wing parties are selling out across Europe, too

As in the US, formerly mainstream conservative politicians are becoming dangerously comfortable with breaches of democratic norms

Tue, 13 Sep, 2022

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Fergus Finlay: Queen's death and jailing of Enoch Burke reveals worst of Twitter

The fact is that social media — and especially Twitter — can’t deal with big stuff

Tue, 13 Sep, 2022

Taoiseach hails EU's 'flexibility' over Northern Ireland Protocol

Taoiseach hails EU's 'flexibility' over Northern Ireland Protocol

Micheál Martin praised Maroš Šefčovič for offering what could be a breakthrough to the impasse over the post-Brexit protocol

Tue, 13 Sep, 2022

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Micheál Martin and Liz Truss discuss the queen's death in phonecall

The two leaders discussed a range of pressing issues, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, their support for Ukraine, and the common challenges they are facing as energy prices soar

Fri, 09 Sep, 2022

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What are other countries doing to manage the energy crisis?

Globally, nations are scrambling to ensure energy needs are met while giving once-off payments to help those struggling with rising energy bills ahead of the winter months.

Wed, 07 Sep, 2022