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“... election when Morgan McSweeney, who had worked with Cruddas in Dagenham and ran the Blairite Liz Kendall’s disastrous leadership bid in 2015, took over as director. Publicly, Labour Together remained a cross-factional campaign group; privately, it was attempting under McSweeney to wrest control of the party. Its offices in Vauxhall had a pirate flag on ...”

“... around the face. The deal was brokered by an adviser to the Board of Trade, which is chaired by Liz Truss, who just happened to be a senior board adviser at Ayanda. NHS data has been signed over not only to Amazon and Google but also to Palantir Technologies, the big data firm set up by the PayPal co-founder and Republican Party funder Peter Thiel, and ...”

“... of having arrived in other places that matter. The newly elected leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss, travelled to Balmoral on 6 September 2022 to be officially appointed prime minister, the 15th that the 96-year-old queen had appointed in her 70-year reign.Truss packed a lot into her 44-day premiership: the ...”

“... has moved up a gear. It has now found a target at the heart of the ‘deep state’: the Treasury. Liz Truss’s supporters have made remarkably vindictive attacks on her rival Rishi Sunak’s management of the economy as chancellor, as if it had been executed independently of Johnson’s cabinet, in which she served. The relative restraint of Sunak’s ...”

“... is a new approach to education, one that gives … schools far greater freedom,’ said Liz Truss, then still a minister in the DfE. ‘We know that many will grab it with great gusto.’ In other words, the DfE wasn’t going to publish lots of stuff to help them. So Pearson, and lots of others, have been stepping in. I met an interesting ...”

“... of getting inflation down. Unlike in September last year, when rates spiked in response to Liz Truss’s suicidal ‘mini-budget’, the recent surge in mortgage rates is fuelled less by panic and uncertainty than by a sober assessment of the fix the bank is in. And unlike last autumn, when Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt were parachuted in to rescue ...”

“... leadership reached new heights under Boris Johnson (and threatens to rise even further under Liz Truss), so this should be easy enough. But the SNP has held power in Scotland for fifteen years and has its own list of embarrassments, notably in the areas of public health, education and industrial policy. Compared to low life expectancy, the highest ...”

“... to run Lambeth Council and organising against the BNP in Barking and Dagenham. In 2015 he led Liz Kendall’s doomed Labour leadership campaign (she got 4.5 per cent of the vote). In 2020, he was back for another round. Baldwin says that Starmer is not ‘hyper-political’. But McSweeney is. He predicted – rightly – that only 20 per cent of party ...”