This from IMF is humiliating for Kwarteng and Truss: “Given elevated inflation pressures in many countries, including UK, we do not recommend large untargeted fiscal packages at this juncture, as it is important fiscal policy does not work at cross purposes to monetary policy”.
"The prime minister hasn’t spoken in public for a week as the financial market crisis deepens," writes @JohnRentoul. "Where is Liz Truss?"
https://t.co/mGi5fOgile #LizTruss#poundcrash#KwasiKwarteng
Whenever you hear Government Ministers today telling railway workers to be "realistic" and to accept pay cuts, remember that the rail companies are making at least £500 MILLION a year in profits. Cut profits - increase wages! Solidarity with the @RMTunion ✊
Attorney General Suella Braverman is calling for us to join Russia in leaving the European Court of Human Rights which protects the rights & guarantees set out in the European Convention on Human Rights - part of a completely different legal system to the EU
WE CANNOT ALLOW IT!
Michael Gove’s Department for #LevellingUp, Housing and Communities actually did award £330,000 to repair the drive of a Tory peer, the 8th Viscount Gage, last year.
Please, please STOP calling Boris Johnson 'BoJo', it makes him sound like a cuddly, jolly mate. Instead, call him what he is - a narcissistic, murderous, lying fucking failure.