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Liz Truss: Fighting for her political life

This Is Why

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What Happens When the Parliamentary Party Takes Back Control?

Cabinet ministers still say the Bank of England made mistakes by not raising rates early enough, and now we're paying for it. Liz Truss' plan for growth involves doing lots of things that have been thought about in the past, but ended up dying a death on the floor of the Commons. Conservative MPs don't want to vote for scrapping lots of environmental regulations or concreteing over your local environment. And so we could actually be tiptoeing towards yet another zombie government. There are only three outcomes from where we are today. Number one is they leave her, they stop her doing mad things,. They stagger on to the election, and let the voters after two years of

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