London’s FTSE 100 jumps as Liz Truss mulls cost of living support package September 6, 2022 London’s FTSE 100 jumped today driven by investors being reassured by new prime minister Liz Truss preparing to ramp up support for households and businesses this week. The capital’s premier index added 0.18 per cent to reach 7,300.44 points, while the mid-cap domestically-focused FTSE 250 index, which is more aligned with the health of the [...]
EXCLUSIVE: New PM Liz Truss will protect ‘crown jewel’ City of London September 6, 2022 Liz Truss will “empower the City to drive economic growth” through tax cuts and regulatory reform as Prime Minister, she exclusively told City A.M.. The newly-appointed Conservative leader said, who will be appointed formally by Her Majesty the Queen at Balmoral today, she wanted to maintain the Square Mile’s competitive edge and “supercharge growth and [...]
If Liz Truss thought winning was hard, governing will be a formidable task September 6, 2022 It will not feel like it to Liz Truss, but that was the easy bit. Political campaigns are always brutal, exhausting and emotional affairs; none more so than this summer’s long and fractious Conservative leadership contest. But the challenges of the last few months pale into insignificance against the enormity of what the new prime [...]
Liz Truss is new PM: Johnson loyalists Patel, Dories and Tory co-chair quit September 5, 2022 Three senior Conservative and Boris Johnson loyalists quit their roles ahead of Liz Truss being sworn in as prime minister. Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, Nadine Dorries, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Ben Elliott, the Johnson-appointed co-chair of the Party, announced they quit their roles. Patel took to Twitter [...]
Liz Truss: New PM can be radical – but she’ll need to keep sceptical markets onside September 5, 2022 As she gets used to the new letterhead on her stationery over the next couple of days, Liz Truss will also be introduced to the art of the balancing act. The job of Prime Minister requires different skills from that of a successful Cabinet minister, on whom it is beholden to drive forward their own [...]
Liz Truss to become Britain’s next Prime Minister after winning Tory leadership race September 5, 2022 Liz Truss will be crowned as the UK’s new Prime Minister tomorrow, after winning the Conservative party leadership contest. Truss today beat out rival Rishi Sunak at the end of the two-month contest and will be appointed as Prime Minister by the Queen tomorrow in Balmoral. Truss won just over 57 per cent of the [...]
Sadiq Khan: Liz Truss, let’s turn the page for London and the UK’s benefit alike September 5, 2022 Sadiq Khan: One of my biggest hopes it that Liz Truss will put a stop the divisive, anti-London approach pursued by her predecessors
Liz Truss weighs up £100bn plan to freeze record energy bills September 5, 2022 Liz Truss is expected to unveil a vast support package to deal with surging energy costs, as first reported in The Times.
Liz Truss as PM will need a sharp focus on delivery September 4, 2022 In the Square Mile and Westminster alike, the secret to good leadership is two-fold: say hello to everybody, and don’t sweat the small stuff. The vast majority of CEOs in the City know that the best way to run a large business is to set a clear strategy and focus on a small, but important, [...]
Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak to face Whitehall strike on first day as prime minister September 1, 2022 The next prime minister will be forced to face strike action in Whitehall on their first day in office, the public sector workers’ union has warned. Either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will face industrial action on the part of Whitehall workers, after members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union voted strike. The [...]