Liz Truss Articles

There were some pretty discontented former ministers scattered round the House of Commons this lunchtime. The reshuffle has taken its toll. Former secretary of state for education Michael Gove looked particularly disenchanted. He was officially revealed today in the...

We don’t like to talk about reshuffle insignificance, because it rather rubs people’s face in it. If Andrea Backbench-Marginal has devoted her entire adult life to the cause, and finally makes it all the way to cabinet, and is glimpsed, modest smile on face, slipping...

The muddle and chaos on childcare policy just get worse. On Monday the children and families bill had its second reading. Like the curate’s egg, the bill is good in parts, with noble aims on parental contact, adoption and warm words on special educational needs. But...

It is both interesting and heartening that the most fruitful and constructive strands of debate taking place within Labour about the party’s future in large part concur in the view that the state must and can change by becoming more open, with greater involvement by...