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Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Jamie Oliver has said Liz Truss will be a “ship that passes in the night”, arguing the Tory party needs an injection of kindness. In a push for the government […] More

Liz Truss repeats Keir Starmer’s ‘growth, growth, growth’ economic slogan More

Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Sir Keir Starmer has warned Labour staff to be ready for the collapse of Liz Truss’s government and a general election “at any time”. Announcing a shake-up of his top […] More

Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng held undisclosed meetings with senior figures from Saudi Arabia’s oil firms when he was business secretary, it has emerged. Documents released to The Guardian following Freedom of […] More

Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email The government has been accused of “ignoring” an official recommendation to pay NHS staff who can’t work because they caught long Covid at work. Ministers have reportedly been told that […] More

The government’s so-called “festival of Brexit” will be probed amid concerns that £120 million of taxpayers’ cash was “frittered away” on a project that brought “so little in return”.MPs in a cross-party parliamentary committee have approached the National Audit Office (NAO) to ask it to look into how the project was managed and whether political pressures kept it going.The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee had found that the number of visitors to the event – called ‘Unboxed: Creativity in the UK’ – was just 0.36 per cent of early targets. More

Liz Truss repeats Keir Starmer’s ‘growth, growth, growth’ economic slogan More