September - in which the Tories crashed the economy, gave tax breaks to the rich, abandoned their net zero plans, and shafted the NHS, the police, schools, farmers and local planning laws
1st
Energy crisis: UK households worst hit in western Europe, finds IMF
NHS staff vacancies at highest level since records began
HMRC
issues winding up petition against PPE firm linked to Tory peer
‘Festival of Brexit’ falls spectacularly short of 66 million visitor target
2nd
No 10 retained cabinet minister and aide accused of sexual misconduct – reports
Westminster dealings ‘demoralising’, say ex-ministers of devolved nations
Liz Truss’s law and order policies ‘meaningless’, says police chief
Boris Johnson accused of intimidation tactics over Partygate lying probe
Britain’s ‘uncontrolled’ sewage dumps may breach Brexit deal, warns EU
Boris Johnson hands author of book on his ‘wit and wisdom’ plum job overseeing peerages
UK Slips Behind India to Become World’s Sixth Biggest Economy
4th
Revealed: levelling up fund allocated south-east England twice as much as north-east
Kent brewery hailed as Brexit ‘export champion’ has one EU customer left
6th
Excess deaths continue to soar despite Covid deaths decreasing
7th
Pound falls to lowest level against US dollar since 1985
Backlash as Liz Truss removes ‘women’ from equalities job title and appoints man to role
8th
Schools in England risk losing TAs to supermarkets over ‘chronic’ low pay
Record 6.8m people waiting for hospital treatment in England
9th
Warning millions will still need extra help with energy bills
‘A broken system’: campaigners urge Liz Truss to rethink energy plan
11th
NHS is ‘over the precipice’, warns nurses’ leader as strike vote looms
UK homes among worst in Europe for energy efficiency, say experts calling forinsulation plan
13th
Liz Truss energy and tax plan ‘will give richest families twice as much support’
Find ‘something better’ than energy price freeze set to cost £150bn, Liz Truss told
New chief secretary to Treasury faces questions over financial interests
14th
Plans to scrap England’s anti-obesity measures ‘a national scandal’
Kwasi Kwarteng seeks to scrap bankers’ bonus cap to boost City of London
Human rights groups sound alarm over Tory foreign minister’s links to repressive Gulf states
American Dark Money, the Mercers and the Conservative Party
15th
Liz Truss to lift fracking ban ‘despite little progress on earthquake risk’
Brexit onslaught deepens as a third of all UK exporters to EU vanish due to red tape knockout
16th
Therese Coffey under fire after telling staff to stop using Oxford commas
Pound sinks to new 37-year low as inflation soars
17th
Firefighters
in England say 100-hour weeks to pay bills are ‘gamble with safety’
Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people
No 10 chief of staff in FBI inquiry over ‘election bribe’ in Puerto Rico
18th
Therese
Coffey could abolish four hour A&E wait targets under ‘emergency’ NHS plan
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s imperial measurements consultation ‘biased’ after no option given to say no
‘It beggars belief’: Liz Truss energy plan ‘shows government doesn’t understand climate crisis’
19th
Truss plan to axe sugar tax runs into legal and parliamentary hitches
Poorest to gain just 63p a month from reversing national insurance hike, study warns
20th
Kwasi Kwarteng refuses to let OBR release forecasts with mini-budget
Liz Truss misled committee over Gulf human rights, MP claims
21st
UK’s mounting debts unsustainable if sweeping tax cuts go ahead, warns IFS
Stalled Brexit talks driving higher UK energy bills, industry warns
Truss tax cuts will hand big banks and insurers £6.3bn, study says
Government plan to tackle NHS staff shortages shelved amid Treasury row
Fracking won’t work in UK says founder of fracking company Cuadrilla
22nd
Kwasi Kwarteng to shrink part-time work benefits to grow labour supply
Fracking
could affect many protected areas across England as ban is lifted
Truss could break fracking election pledge to bypass local opposition
Kwarteng announces tax cut worth thousands to rich and nothing to poorest
Jacob Rees-Mogg promotes ‘absolutely outrageous’ claim that Putin funded fracking opponents
‘They don’t work’: experts criticise Liz Truss’s grammar schools plan
FRACKING MINISTER Funded by Fossil Fuel Investor
23rd
Liz Truss's Foreign Office spend at Norwich City questioned
Britain’s rich to enjoy lion’s share of £45bn tax cuts announced by Kwasi Kwarteng
24th
Home secretary tells police she ‘expects’ them to cut murders by 20% - but does not say how
Tax cut will not ‘suddenly unlock growth’, CBI boss warns chancellor
One in six UK public procurement contracts had tax haven link, study finds
Government poised to scrap nature ‘Brexit bonus’ for farmers
NHS eating disorder services forced to ‘exclude’ patients and ‘ration care’
UK environment laws under threat in ‘deregulatory free-for-all’
25th
Schools in England warn of crisis of ‘heartbreaking’ rise in hungry children
Budget tax breaks for ‘affluent’ Tory areas will take funds from poorer places, Labourwarns
‘Shocking’: Labour condemns Liz Truss paying chief of staff through lobbying firm
26th
Schools ‘on knife edge’ with finances prompting campaign to fund books and pencils
Liz Truss and Kwarteng accused of ‘gambling with public’s money’ as pound plummets
27th
Green charities urge millions of members to
oppose Tories’ ‘attack on nature’
Kwasi Kwarteng said ‘who cares if Sterling crashes?’ after Brexit, report claims
Tory donor says bets against UK government bonds ‘gifts that keep giving’
Brexit has cut Eurostar capacity by 30 per cent, says chief executive
28th
IMF openly criticises UK government tax plans
Pension funds faced 'mass collapse' within hours if Bank of England hadn't stepped in
29th
Thérèse Coffey scraps promised paper on health inequality
30th
NHS nurses not eating at work in order to feed their children, survey finds
Astonishment as fracking companies may be placed in charge of testing public support for drilling
Record number of nurses quitting the NHS
Truss and Kwarteng resist pressure to bring analysis of their tax plans forward
How Truss’s post-Brexit farming policy descended into chaos
