Which version of Rishi Sunak will Britain get?
Rishi Sunak attended his first PMQs on Wednesday 26 October, and seemed to buoy up his divided party with Johnsonite attack lines on Labour – but can he hold on to unity and win back the country’s tru...
27 Okt 202230min
Rishi Sunak wins – what now?
The UK is to have a new prime minister whose policies are unknown and no one but Tory MPs voted for. Public appetite for a general election is high. What will Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor, do wh...
24 Okt 202226min
BONUS: How the lettuce became Liz Truss’s nemesis, with Jon Livesey
In this bonus episode of the New Statesman Podcast, Rachel Cunliffe interviews the Daily Star deputy editor-in-chief Jon Livesey about how a lettuce livestream helped chronicle the downfall of Liz Tru...
21 Okt 20226min
Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 44 days in office
Liz Truss has announced she will stand down as prime minister after her government was plunged into chaos yesterday. The Home Secretary was forced to resign, the chief whip attempted to resign, and To...
20 Okt 202224min
Will Liz Truss last the week?
In a desperate attempt to stabilise the financial markets Jeremy Hunt, the newly appointed Chancellor, has reversed “almost all” of the tax cuts announced in the government’s mini-Budget just three we...
17 Okt 202219min
Horror in the City at the Tories' mini-Budget, with the economist and former trader Gary Stevenson
Emma Haslett, The New Statesman’s associate business editor, speaks to Gary Stevenson, an economist and former trader for Citibank, a job he initially won in a card game. In 2011 he became the bank’s ...
16 Okt 202225min
Will Liz Truss sack Kwasi Kwarteng to save herself?
What was left of Liz Truss’s authority visibly dissipated in Prime Minister’s Questions this week. As Freddie Hayward reports, the atmosphere was “funereal”, with the Prime Minister repeating “I’m gen...
14 Okt 202225min
How Liz Truss is fuelling the energy crisis, with Dale Vince
Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Dale Vince, a green energy industrialist and founder of Ecotricity, a renewable energy company. Vince’s book Manifesto: How a Maverick Entrepreneur Took On British Energy...
11 Okt 202221min
