Liz Truss
Liz Truss threatens Keir Starmer with legal action over claims she ‘crashed the economy’
The letter states that the request “is made in the context of the basic levels of civility which is due between senior politicians”.
- by Rob Harris
Latest
Tony Abbott and Liz Truss team up to fight ‘net zero mind virus’
The two former prime ministers, both drummed out of office by their peers, found they had much to agree on – including their relatively short tenures in the top job.
- by Michael Koziol
Political Sketch
Political leadership
Albanese’s Tourette’s slur capped a question time too dire for Liz Truss
The former UK prime minister had already left by the time current Australian PM lost his cool and resorted to an offensive playground insult.
- by Nick Bonyhady
Moving pictures tell heartbreaking story
One day, across a field pockmarked with bomb craters, two parties might walk towards each other in tears and embrace, remembering all those lost on both sides in a stupid, pointless, unwinnable war. I wait for that day.
Liz Truss goes to Canberra, courtesy of Peter Dutton
Despite a record of failure, the former British prime minister is a hit with some of our local politicians.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Boris Johnson returns to Australia for exclusive tour
The former British prime minister will spruik his new memoir in Sydney and Melbourne in December, but tickets aren’t going cheap.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Analysis
UK election
So long UK Conservatives, and thanks for all the memes
The tumultuous Thatcher years were memorialised in song and literature, but this current generation of Tories are probably best forgotten.
- by Rob Harris
Opinion
UK election
Britain’s best hope is a PM with the charisma of frozen peas
A boring prime minister in Keir Starmer may be the best Britain can hope for if it’s to end the omnishambles era.
- by Nick Bryant
Analysis
UK politics
UK politics so much funnier than fiction, comedy writer finds it ‘hard to match’
The Tories are in a spot of bother as the UK heads to an election. A possible catastrophic defeat would be both self-inflicted and richly deserved.
- by Rob Harris
Number 10 was a ‘prison infested with fleas’, says former British PM
She felt “itchy”, like a prisoner, and unsuited to making the speech on the Queen’s death, Liz Truss writes in her memoir.
- by Genevieve Holl-Allen
Former PM Liz Truss charged thousands for ‘summer parties’, bathrobes, slippers
The former British PM has been asked to pay for costs incurred while she spent time at the Chevening estate as foreign secretary.
- by Daniel Martin
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