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    • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
      UK financial regulation
      Truss backs new powers to override City regulators

      Tory rivals face fight with BoE over allowing ministers to ‘call in’ watchdogs’ decisions

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    • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
      UK energy
      Bleak winter of UK power cuts feared in worst-case scenario for energy supplies

      Ministers draw up contingency plans as household power bills in Britain are forecast to top £4,400 a year

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    • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
      Janan Ganesh
      Don’t rule out a fifth term for the Tories

      Labour thinks it is enough to purge the hard left, but the soft left need to go too

    • Monday, 8 August, 2022
      Sunak promises support for households in cost of living crisis

      Allies of former UK chancellor step up attacks on Tory leadership rival Liz Truss

    • Sunday, 7 August, 2022
      Tory frontrunner Liz Truss under pressure over help on cost of living

      Backers of leadership rival Rishi Sunak say her tax cut pledges would ‘not touch the sides’ for poorer households

    • Saturday, 6 August, 2022
      Tim Pitt
      The Tories risk forgetting a rich tradition of economic thinking

      Cheap imitations of Thatcherism will not help the next prime minister tackle some formidable challenges as the outlook worsens

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Interview
      Liz Truss: how the Thatcher era shapes her vision of radical reform

      Frontrunner to become next prime minister pledges to shake up economic policy and deregulate business

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Truss rejects ‘handouts’ in favour of tax cuts to help households

      Conservative leadership frontrunner dismisses the ‘abacus economics’ of the Treasury

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Rishi Sunak
      Sunak’s remarks on shifting funds from ‘deprived urban areas’ spark outrage

      Former chancellor’s comments to Tory party members receive cross-party criticism

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Financial fraud
      Tory donor charged in Puerto Rico bribery scheme

      Venezuelan financier Julio Herrera Velutini has given more than £500,000 since Boris Johnson became UK prime minister

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
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      The Tory leadership race keeps on giving

      The contest has become increasingly about dangling carrots for party members. If only I’d had the foresight to sign up

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      UK inflation
      Bank of England governor defends mandate and vows to tame inflation

      Andrew Bailey rejects claim the central bank acted too slowly as allies of Tory leadership contenders wade in

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Inside Politics
      Bleak forecasts could spell early election this year

      Plus, how UK politics will be rocked by the economic downturn, and why we can trust the leadership polls

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Sebastian Payne
      A prime minister Truss will need to face down the Tory right

      To stamp her authority once in office she should appoint a cabinet that represents the full spectrum of Tory opinion

    • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
      Liz Truss claims UK recession can be averted

      Tory front-runner’s pledge to cut taxes during leadership debate with rival Sunak comes after BoE warning on economy

    • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Levelling up to tackle the UK’s economic malaise

      Tory leadership hopefuls need a bolder vision to lessen regional disparities

    • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
      Bank of England
      Liz Truss backers step up attacks on Bank of England over inflation

      Favourite to be next UK prime minister criticises Treasury’s failure to avert economic crisis

    • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
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      ‘Levelling up’ has been sidelined by Truss and Sunak

      It may have been a slippery election slogan, but the regional inequality it purported to solve is all too real

    • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
      Rural Tory faithful weigh up contenders to be next UK PM

      Truss leads the polls among Conservative party members but Sunak allies say everything is still to play for

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      Truss to look at changing Bank of England mandate on inflation

      Tory leadership frontrunner says now wrong time to be putting up taxes as she picks up support of Sajid Javid

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      Northern Ireland
      DUP refuses to return to power-sharing until new UK PM in office

      N Ireland political impasse over future of Brexit deal means no budget can be passed to help with cost of living crisis

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      Voting for new Tory leader and UK prime minister delayed over security fears

      National Cyber Security Centre advice prompts party to bar members from recasting their vote

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      Robert Shrimsley
      Truss attacks on the Treasury highlight Tories’ deeper failure

      That her rival Sunak is a former chancellor hands her a weapon — but this has long been a theme of Conservative politics

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      Pilita Clark
      The Tories’ wilful blindness on climate is baffling

      Both candidates for the party leadership seem content to ignore environmental and geopolitical reality

    • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
      Liz Truss
      Truss makes U-turn on cutting public sector pay in poorer areas

      Conservative leadership frontrunner scraps regional salaries plan after cross-party backlash

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