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Defeated Ex-PM Liz Truss is apparently refusing to hand over issues she was dealing with as a Norfolk MP to her Labour successor
Labour has won the 2024 General Election. Let’s take a look back at the multiple crises successive Conservative administrations worsened, created or ignored
The Conservative election betting scandal is just the tip of the iceberg from a party whose senior figures and donors have treated their time in Government as a ‘gift that keeps on giving’
As Rishi Sunak faces calls to strip her of the whip, Liz Truss claims without evidence that ceasefire protests are funded by authoritarian states, amid a litany of strange proposals
Labour MP writes to PM Sunak over Liz Truss appearing on Lotus Eaters, a show founded by Carl Benjamin, who stated he “wouldn’t even rape” her
Despite the best efforts of the woke deep state, censored sections of the former prime minister’s diary have been leaked to Otto English
As Liz Truss joins Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson as the latest recruit to Steve Bannon’s dangerous and undemocratic internationalist ‘anti-globalism’ – more online information warfare and hate will be the result, writes Peter Jukes
Popular Conservatism is registered to a company whose director used to be the Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs
Seemingly lasting an eternity, Professor Chris Painter dissects the failures of governance of the 2019-2024 Parliament, in response to momentous events
Voters want Rishi Sunak to be a ‘short-term Prime Minister’ new polling suggests
As Foreign Secretary, Truss warned that the Government risked failing in its duty of care for the group which included at least 20 children
Rishi Sunak’s Party is placing itself in opposition not just to its own record, but to observable reality itself, reports Adam Bienkov
A majority of voters believe “nothing in Britain really works” and say Rishi Sunak’s party has made public services worse, according to an exclusive new poll
Boris Johnson’s regular trips to Ukraine, Liz Truss’ recent visit to Taiwan… Rachel Morris would rather see our former PMs lumber around the Blackpool ballroom or eating reproductive organs in the jungle
Matthew Gwyther looks at the public’s contradictory ideas of leadership and how women are (on the whole) confounding them
If you want to know what happens next in the UK, you’d be better off flipping a coin than listening to most political pundits, argues Adam Bienkov
Now the Conservative Party’s reputation for economic competence has cratered, Matthew Gwyther sees businesses getting increasingly politicised
Sam Bright reports on the Conservative Party’s enduring alliance with the libertarian lobbying groups that ‘crashed the economy’
The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement will go down as one of the most dishonest political statements in living memory, writes Adam Bienkov
Not accepting or being able to discuss the damage caused by Britain’s exit from the EU leaves the country in a unsustainable position, writes Chris Grey
The International Trade Secretary is due to speak at a Koch-founded libertarian ‘think tank’, reports Sam Bright
Sam Bright warns that, despite crashing the economy, dark money libertarian groups will retain influence on the new Prime Minister
The UK’s new Prime Minister leads a Government which is terrified of consulting the very people he was appointed to lead, writes Adam Bienkov
The genesis of the current chaos lies in the main political parties deciding to allow their members to choose their leaders, writes David Keys
Max Colbert reflects on the political chaos and the string of U-turns during the Truss campaign and premiership
Stuart Spray speaks to the residents of Great Plumpton, close to a shale gas exploration site, about the realities of fracking – as Westminster descends into chaos over banning it
The country is following a familiar pattern of environmental, energy and economic-driven state failure – and if the next government refuses to break with neoliberal orthodoxy, it will only accelerate this downwards trajectory, writes Nafeez Ahmed
Government cuts have hamstrung the regulator at exactly the wrong moment, reports Andrew Kersley
Liz Truss is a merely a creature of a party and its press supporters who are now desperately distancing themselves from her, writes Adam Bienkov
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shaken an already precarious consensus on climate action, says Thomas Perrett
The sacking of the Chancellor is a symptom of the escalating incoherence of Liz Truss’ Government – not a sign that it is changing course to become more coherent, writes Nafeez Ahmed
In his editorial from the October 2022 print edition of Byline Times, Peter Jukes argues that Liz Truss is ushering in the final phase of the Brexit project It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. When David Cameron took over as leader of the Conservatives in 2005, he wanted to transform its electoral reputation as the…
As the Bank of England takes alarming steps to stabilise the economy, the Prime Minister is preparing for a devastating new era of austerity, reports Adam Bienkov
Sam Bright unpicks the Truss-Kwarteng manifesto, finding a worrying obsession with Britain’s distant economic past