Reform UK has been challenged to rule out recruiting Liz Truss to its ranks, after her one-time party chairman, Sir Jake Berry, became the latest former Conservative MP to defect from the Tories. The Liberal Democrats described Berry, who like Truss lost his seat at the 2024 general election, as an “architect of economic disaster”... Read more » The post Farage urged to rule out Liz Truss joining Reform UK after ally’s defection appeared first on Politics.co.uk.| Politics.co.uk
At the Battle of Ideas last Saturday, a panel on "populism" spent an hour and a half discussing everything except economics. Sherelle Jacobs of the Telegraph called for the Tory party to replace what she called a "twisted morality of sacrifice and dependency" with the "Judaeo-Christian" values of thrift and personal responsibility. And when a brave audience member asked "shouldn't we be discussing economics?" Tom Slater of Spiked brushed him off and carried on talking about cultural issues. E...| www.coppolacomment.com
The United States is in a state of crisis. What was considered a strong democratic nation protected by a codified constitution, lauded for holding its own over time, is now in turmoil, the actions …| The Norton View
In a burlesque fusion of murder mystery, dark academia, and autofiction, Coe charts the development of a pro-NHS-privatisation thinktank from its roots in Cambridge in the 1980s to its short-lived triumph with the rise of Liz Truss in 2022, scattering the story between the perspectives variously of a failed conservative novelist, a Cambridge undergraduate, a murdered anti-Tory blogger, a police detective, and a sushi attendant.| Cherwell
The party board held a five-hour meeting on Thursday where it is understood they were told no firm timetable had been agreed by the 1922 Committee executive.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate