Liz Truss’s comments about not using “handouts” to ease the cost of living crisis have been “misinterpreted”, Penny Mordaunt has claimed. On Friday, the Foreign Secretary and Tory leadership frontrunner said the way to help families with spiralling fuel bills this winter was through tax cuts and radical economic reform.
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She added: “I do think they [the SNP] are in a bit of a bind and I’m not sure this plan to go to the Supreme Court, then run a general election campaign for who becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom… as a de facto referendum when it’s
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After Joe Biden won the election, and after the White House began pushing passage of the nearly $2 trillion American Jobs Plan, there was a lot of talk about the new president being the next Franklin Roosevelt. I wanted to believe it, but being the skeptic that I am, I
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I had a meeting with some colleagues about a month ago. We were in a leadership program discussing a video about dealing with differences. In my mind, working on autopilot, I assumed the differences were racial and ethnic. I said, somewhat offhandedly, that since our state is now run by
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Nations are built on myths and lies — mixed, of course, with bits of the truth. The United States is no different, but our nation’s myths and lies are more extravagant than most: America, we are told to believe, is an “exceptional” or “indispensable” nation, the world’s greatest democracy, a
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China’s well-publicized Belt and Road Initiative to invest in infrastructure projects in other countries has helped it expand its political influence around the world. But
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Current measures include increasing the National Insurance threshold and the first round of cost of living payments, with a second instalment to follow in October
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In the run-up to the U.S. midterm elections, some politicians continue to ride the wave of what’s known as “Christian nationalism” in ways that are
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The Kremlin insider known as “Putin’s chef” personally toured Russian prisons to recruit 1,000 convicts to fight for his Wagner Group of mercenaries in Ukraine,
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Every five years, the nearly 200 member states of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons meet to review their progress – or lack
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According to preliminary statistics released by authorities in Gaza, the Israeli attacks have damaged 650 housing units and rendered 30 uninhabitable. Palestinian rocket fire has
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For a country that presided over one of the world’s worst nuclear power disasters, Russia’s latest action in Ukraine is reckless in the extreme. Almost
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