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LONDON—Having fired her chancellor of the exchequer days ago, U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss must now battle to save her own job after what many political analysts and members of her own party regard as the worst start to a British premiership in modern times.Ms. Truss’s popularity rating is the lowest of any British prime minister since the early 1990s, according to polls, after a turbulent few weeks that saw her plan to boost growth through the biggest tax cuts in a generation cause…

LONDON—U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss fired Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng and reversed crucial parts of her government’s tax plan, a major setback for the new leader after her plan to jolt the economy into growth unraveled in spectacular fashion following a backlash from financial markets and her party.   Mr. Kwarteng, who just three weeks ago presented the U.K.’s largest tax cuts since the 1970s, was asked to quit by Ms. Truss as markets balked at the scale of…

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has joined the likes of Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario as she stars in her own fast-paced platform game, In Liz We Trust? Alongside the launch of titles such as FIFA 23, Overwatch 2 and The Last of Us Part 1, In Liz We Trust? has joined the recently released lists. The 8-bit platformer sees Truss stealing coins from British homes and delivering them to the City of London. It isn’t plain sailing for Truss though, as she faces the Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, Conservative party…

Prime Minister Liz Truss is seeking to rally MPs around her her tax-cutting policies following political infighting and market turmoil.Jacob King | Pa Images | Getty ImagesLONDON — British Prime Minister Liz Truss insisted Wednesday that cutting taxes was "the right thing to do morally and economically," doubling down on a series of debt-funded economic reforms that have sparked in-party fighting and market turmoil.Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference, Truss said she was determined to "level up our country in a…

Fast News The Prime Minister says her government has to take urgent and decisive action, including "difficult decisions", to get the British economy moving. UK government has stepped in and acted at this difficult time, Truss says.…

British Prime Minister Liz Truss and U.S. President Joe Biden formally met for the first time at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, following clashes in economic policy between the two leaders.Wpa Pool | Getty ImagesLONDON — The British government is set to announce sweeping tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy Friday, in a controversial mini-budget showcasing the lengths to which new Prime Minister Liz Truss is willing to go to overhaul U.K. economic policy even as it draws political ire.Truss —…

Two major books about new prime minister Liz Truss are currently under way, with the first due to be released at the end of this year.Harry Cole, political editor at the Sun, and James Heale, the Spectator’s diary editor, are behind the first book, which is titled Out of the Blue, while the second is being written by businessman, pollster and writer Lord Ashcroft.Cole and Heale’s book will be published by HarperCollins on 8 December. The blurb for the book says the pair have “unrivalled access and insight”, and will…

LONDON—Britain’s new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, will face the most daunting economic outlook for an incoming British leader since her political hero, Margaret Thatcher, became the U.K.’s first female prime minister in 1979. Productivity growth has dropped to half the rate it was in the early 2000s, real wages are falling, the pound is nearing record lows and an aging population is placing a growing strain on public services, even as the…

Dan Douglas has added This Morning‘s “dystopian” energy bill competition to Duke Smoochem 3D, a satirical mod for Duke Nukem 3D that parodies British current events. As shared on Twitter yesterday (September 5), the latest update from Douglas adds This Morning‘s Spin To Win competition, which offered one player the chance to win £1000 or four months of their energy bills paid. “Spin to Win your energy bill on This Morning, in Duke Nukem 3D,” said Douglas, revealing a brief clip of Duke Smoochem 3D that shows the Spin To…

| Well, comic book creator folk certainly seem to be united in one thing… not liking former Foreign Secretary Liz Truss MP, just voted in by the Conservative & Unionist Party as their new leader, beating out former Chancellor Of The Exchequer Rishi Sunak MP. And as a result, Liz Truss is the the Prime Minister of Great Britain And Northern Ireland, replacing Boris Johnson MP. That's how we do things over here, like it or not. It has been quite the journey for Liz Truss, she began as a Liberal Democrat committed to…