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Liz Truss promises ‘growth, growth, growth’ and to ‘always be fiscally responsible’
The Prime Minister said slashing taxes is “the right thing to do morally and economically”. In her first Conservative Party conference speech as leader, Liz Truss said: “Over the summer, we had a robust debate and the Conservative Party...
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Liz Truss: Wherever there is change there is disruption but everyone will benefit
Liz Truss has said she aims to “level up the country in a Conservative way,” citing her experience of low growth while growing up in Leeds and Paisley and vowed to break Britain out of a “high-tax, low-growth cycle”. The Prime Minister...
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Kwarteng shrugs off ‘little turbulence’ after U-turn over tax cut for rich
Kwasi Kwarteng has sought to shrug off the chaos that triggered his U-turn on income tax cuts for the highest earners as a “little turbulence” as he battled to regain authority.
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Liz Truss vows to 'stay the course' as she closes conference speech
Liz Truss vowed to “stay the course” as she closed her first Conservative Party conference speech as leader. The Prime Minister said: “The status quo is not an option. That is why we can’t give in to the voices of decline.
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Johnson has 'made a mockery of standards expected of PM', says Angela Rayner
Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner reacts to the Conservative Party being fined £17,800 for failing to declare a donation of more than £50,000 from a Tory peer to cover the redecoration of Boris Johnson’s Downing Street flat. The...
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Truss and Kwarteng visit building site
Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng visit the Birmingham Health Innovation Centre construction site in Selly Oak on day three of the Conservative Conference 2022.
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Liz Truss heckled by Greenpeace during Party Conference speech
Protesters holding a flag which read “who voted for this?” were ejected from the hall after disrupting Prime Minister Liz Truss’s first Tory conference speech as party leader. Greenpeace confirmed that its activists were responsible for...
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Tory conference pays tribute to Queen
Prime Minister Liz Truss arrives at the opening session of the Conservative Conference 2022, where tributes including a minute’s silence were paid to the Queen before the national anthem was observed.
Sky News
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon apology doorstep at SNP Conference in Aberdeen
CLEAN: Interior shot doorstep interview with Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at SNP Scottish National Party Conference on 9 October 2022 in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Truss Speech Interrupted by Greenpeace Protesters
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss is interrupted by Greenpeace Protesters during a speech to her Conservative Party members in Birmingham.
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Christian Wakeford speaks after defecting from Tory to Labour
Interview with Bury South MP Christian Wakeford, who has defected from the Conservatives to Labour, in his office in the Houses of Parliament, Westminster.
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Ed Milibands Labour Manifesto Speech Part Two
Ed Milibands Labour Manifesto Speech Part Two
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Conservative Party 'not fit to govern', says Greens co-leader
Co-leader of the Green Party, Carla Denyer, speaks following the resignation of Prime Minister Liz Truss, saying we need a general election to change the country's direction.
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Change of PM could herald ‘new start’ in Brussels-London relationship
The EU is hopeful a change in UK prime minister will herald a “new start” in relations between Brussels and London, Ireland's Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said.
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Race for UK Prime Minister: Runners and Riders
Bloomberg's Alex Wickham discusses the candidates to replace Liz Truss as UK prime minister. Front-Runners: Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson, Penny Mordaunt. Outsiders: Ben Wallace, Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch, Grant Shapps.
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Nearly half of Conservative members think Rishi Sunak would make better party leader than Boris Johnson
VOICED: Shows exterior shots town of Princes Risborough in Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire including high street and shops and surrounding countryside, interview with Conservative MP Greg Smith, graphics sequence on who should lead the...
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Boris Johnson being hailed a 'hero' in Ukraine, says Sajid Javid
Health Secretary Sajid Javid addresses the Tory party spring conference in Blackpool Mr Javid discusses Russia's invasion of Ukraine and calls Putin a war criminal. He goes on to discuss the medical support being given to Ukraine, says...
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Interview with Ed Miliband on the Conservative Manifesto
Interview with Ed Miliband on the Conservative Manifesto
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Jeremy Corbyn: The Tory Manifesto is written for billionaires and will be delivered for billionaires
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn addresses Labour activists on the General Election campaign trail in Thurrock. He blasts Tory's manifesto as being 'paid for by billionaires, written for billionaires and will be delivered for billionaires'.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson To Face No-Confidence Vote
If Johnson loses the vote among the 359 Conservative lawmakers, the party will choose a new leader who will become prime minister.
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Starmer repeats call for PM to quit following conclusion of partygate investigation
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer repeated his call for Boris Johnson to quit, saying the Prime Minister was responsible for a culture which saw “industrial scale lawbreaking” in No 10. He told reporters in Leeds: “What the investigation...
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Conservative manifesto launch
Boris Johnson launches Conservative Party manifesto. Among the pledges made are: 20,000 police officers and 50,000 extra nurses with the return of nurse bursaries, which were scrapped by the Tories in 2016. During his speech, Mr Johnson...
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Johnson: Conservatives champion the environment
Saturday saw Conservative leadership candidate Boris Johnson in Notthingham for the latest in a series of hustings.
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Reeves welcomes defector Wakeford to Labour Party
Pool clip with Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves in which she discusses the defection of Bury South MP Christian Wakeford and the chances of anymore Tories following him