The Independent - October 06, 2022
The Independent - October 06, 2022
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October 06, 2022
Truss 'accepted campaign help' from ex-minister despite harassment claim
Liz Truss accepted help during her leadership campaign from a former government minister accused of sexual harassment, No 10 sources claim.
1 min
Truss 'accepted campaign help' from former minister despite harassment claim
Liz Truss accepted help during her leadership campaign from a former government minister accused of sexual harassment, No 10 sources say.
3 mins
Anger as PM takes aim at the 'anti-growth coalition'
Liz Truss has sparked a furious backlash after blaming the UK's economic woes on a supposed "anti-growth coalition" of opposition parties, trade unions, think tanks, environmentalists and opponents of Brexit.
4 mins
Pie lady's speech took its fated turn towards insanity
She wandered out and into this defining moment with the surefooted certainty of a frightened Thunderbirds marionette. She stared out from behind the lectern with a grin that looked as if it might not merely have been drawn on, but cast in concrete. If, at this moment, she'd been played footage of her own funeral, one doubts it would have caused the smile to crack, which was, in many ways, precisely what happened next.
4 mins
Truss takes a chunk out of Johnson's junk food ban
Liz Truss appeared to ditch Boris Johnson's approach to the obesity strategy by signalling she will drop plans to ban two-for one junk food offers.
2 mins
'A clear message Tories are rowing back on net zero'
Environmentalists attack Truss's 'shameful' climate stance
4 mins
Tory MPs seeking a more comprehensive leadership
At the Conservative Party conference unity was in short supply. But Tory MPs representing different wings of the party were agreed on one point - despair at the unforced errors of the Truss government.
2 mins
I tried to understand their historic error - but I failed
On Tuesday I literally sat at the feet of the chancellor in an attempt to understand this government's economic policy. Journalists were allowed to sit in the front row for a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference, and so I found myself a few feet away from Kwasi Kwarteng, looking up at him, as he sat in an armchair on a low stage.
3 mins
Households will lose £2 in stealth freezes for every £1 in Truss tax cuts, says IFS
For every pound households receive through Liz Truss's headline cuts to tax, twice as much will be taken away in "stealthy freezes", a leading economic think tank has warned.
2 mins
Musician 'livid' at use of song at Tory conference
Liz Truss entered stage to Nineties hit 'Moving On Up'
2 mins
A frothy, whimsical delight
The musical of Roald Dahl's classic book 'Matilda' is warm, familiar and ever so British, writes Clarisse Loughrey
3 mins
Europe at risk of new Covid wave as subvariants spread
A "swarm" of new Covid subvariants could drive a fresh wave across Europe and North America by the end of November, experts have warned.
3 mins
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