News Round-Up
5 July 2025
by Toby Young
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Labour loves to remind voters how Liz Truss 'crashed the economy', but Rachel Reeves is making the exact same mistake. She's asking the markets to lend the Government vast sums and they're telling her where to get off.
Bond yields are soaring to their highest levels in 30 years and sterling is sliding, but the Chancellor is nowhere to be seen. Where is Rachel Reeves and why won't she address the markets her failed Budget has spooked?
The bond market chaos that shook Britain in the autumn of 2022 and triggered Liz Truss's humiliating exit was an inside job – at least according to recent research by the central bank at the heart of the mess.
In the latest episode of the Weekly Sceptic, the talking points are Nigel Farage's election surprise, Trump's absurd show trial and a bumper week for the 'Far Right' smear
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss has written in the Telegraph to counter "ludicrous claims" that pursuing Net Zero will boost the economy and drive growth, calling it "patently not true and wishful thinking".
Labour has slashed its original £28bn green borrowing plan by 80%, blaming Liz Truss (no, really), and unveiled a new tax raid on oil and gas giants to bankroll the Net Zero drive.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Liz Truss's PopCon event, the U.K.'s broken asylum system and the Premier League's Stadium Stasi spying on fans for wrongthink.
Nigel Farage will join the launch of Liz Truss's new 'Popular Conservatism' movement, advocating for hardline policies on immigration and tax cuts, marking the former Prime Minister's determined return to politics.
Last year, the Foreign Office sanctioned pro-Putin blogger Graham Phillips, the first time it has sanctioned a UK citizen. Peter Hitchens says if we don't object, other critics of the Govt's foreign policy could be next.
In an op-ed last year, Rishi Sunak wrote, “I am a Thatcherite, I am running as a Thatcherite and I will govern as a Thatcherite.” So what's his latest proposal to tackle rising food prices? Socialist price caps!
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