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The mini-budget goes… (When) does Liz Truss follow?

This Is Why

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The Prime Minister Takes Out His Heart

Labour were successful in tabling an urgent question about the sacking of quasi-quarting, they'd asked for Liz Truss to answer. Instead we got Penny Mordent as the Prime Minister was otherwise engaged. Whatever important business had prevented Ms Truss from answering Labour's question didn't occupy her entirely. She still managed to find her seat on the front bench before Penny Mordent had even finished. I'm afraid you will have to make do with me, Mr Speaker. The Prime Minister takes out his heart. And that fundamental instability, the political instability, is going to continue to bubble beneath it. There might be a bit of a pattern of economic stability now, but that trouble at

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