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Timeline of the premiership of Liz Truss

Leadership election

July

7 July

  • Johnson announces resignation

10 July

  • Truss announces her candidacy in the Daily Telegraph[1][2][3]

13–20 July

  • Five ballots of MPs

25 July

  • First Sunak-Truss debate on BBC One

26 July

  • Second Sunak-Truss debate on Talk TV

20 August

  • Gives interview with The Sun https://www.thesun .co.uk/news/19568776/liz-truss-recession-thatcher-small-business/

25 August

  • Publishes op ed in Daily Mail [4]

September

2 September

  • Votes close at 5 p.m. for leadership election

3 September

  • Writes article in Telegraph [5]

5 September

  • At [where?], she is announced as winner of election and becomes leader of Conservative Party. She promises a "bold plan" (in her speech?)

Premiership

September

6 September

  • In Balmoral, Queen accept's Johnson's resignation and asks Truss to form government
  • Delivers first speech as PM outside Downing Street. She promises "to act quickly to tackle the UK’s cost-of-living crisis, saying that within a week she would come up with a plan to tackle rising energy bills and secure future fuel supplies."
  • Zelensky is first foreign leader to speak with Truss [6]
  • She then speaks with Biden about "working together as leaders of free democracies to tackle shared challenges – particularly the economic problems caused by Putin’s war."

7 September

  • Appoints a new Cabinet with Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor and chairs its first meeting
  • First PMQs. She says that "she will set out a package of support to deal with energy bills"
  • Speaks to Olaf Schulz about energy resilience in response to the challenges caused by Putin’s illegal war.

8 September

  • Informed by Simon Case about Queen's health at 9:30 a.m. [7]
  • Just before midday in the House of Commons, she announces £100 billion Energy Price Guarantee "and promises support for businesses struggling with bills for six months"
  • Queen dies at Balmoral Castle at 15:10 BST at age of 96
  • Truss is informed at 16:30 that Queen has died. She delivers speech outside Downing Street in tribute

9 September

  • Kings holds audience with Truss at Buckingham Palace

12 September

  • Attends service of thanksgiving for Queen (where?)

19 September

20 September

  • Announces the UK will meet or exceed the amount of military aid spent on Ukraine in 2022 next year.
  • Meets with Emmanuel Macron, Japanese PM Kishida, Lithuanian PM Gitanas Nauseda, Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska

21 September

  • Meets with Ursula von der Leyen, Joe Biden, Israeli PM Yair Lapid
  • Deliver speech to the UN General Assembly

23 September

  • Kwarteng delivers "Growth Plan", the most significant raft of tax cuts in a budget since 1972, by cutting the lowest income tax rate from 20 to 19 percent, reducing the highest rate from 45 to 40 percent and scrapping can on bankers bonuses. It will be funded by £70bn of increased borrowing.
  • Market reaction to mini-budget

26 September

  • Pound hits $1.0350, a 37-year low (or was it the day before?)

27 September

  • IMF says that tax cuts will increase inequality and that they are "closely monitoring" developments
  • Truss publishes article for Daily Mail [8]

28 September

  • Bank of England announces that it was temporarily buying up 65bn pounds ($73bn) worth of long-dated UK government bonds “to restore orderly market conditions”.
  • Truss speaks with Vlodymyr Zelensky

29 September

  • In her first public comments since the market turmoil following the mini-budget, Truss defends her plans in a series of radio interviews. She says on BBC local radio that the UK is facing "very, very difficult economic times" and that she will make "difficult decisions" to get the economy growing.

30 September

  • Publishes article for The Sun https://www.thesun. co.uk/news/19972195/liz-truss-bills-government-on-your-side/

October

1 October

  • Energy Price Guarantee comes into force
  • Gives first newspaper interview as PM with Edward Malnick of the Telegraph [9]
  • Holds talks with Danish PM Metter Fredriksen
  • Arrives in Birmingham for first Conservative Conference as PM

2 October

  • Truss acknowledges mistakes over mini-budget, and says that abolishing 45p top rate of tax was decided by him and not discussed with Cabinet

3 October

  • Publishes article for The Telegraph [10]

5 October

  • At 11:05 a.m., Truss delivers her first speech as party leader at Conservative Party Conference. She pledges that she will “get Britain moving”.

6 October

8 October

  • "Four Cabinet ministers urge colleagues to rally behind Ms Truss"
  • British lamb shipped to America for first time in over two decades (relevant?) [11]

10 October

  • Meets Lionesses
  • Kwarteng "agrees to bring forward the publication of his financial strategy and independent economic forecasts and agrees to set out his medium-term fiscal plan alongside Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predictions on October 31"

11 October

  • G7 Leaders' joint statement on Ukraine
  • Bill to cancel the Health & Social Care Levy concludes its passage through the House of Commons
  • Introduces new Energy Prices Bill [12]

12 October

  • Truss insists that she won't cut spending to balance the books

14 October

  • Kwarteng flies back from International Monetary Fund talks in Washington and Truss dismisses him as Chancellor
  • Appoints Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor
  • Hosts eight-minute press conference at Downing Street in which she answers four questions. She says that she will keep the planned rise of corporation tax from 19% to 25 percent from April next year
  • Daily Star begin live stream of a lettuce dressed as Truss

When?

  • "The Bank of England’s intervention drew to a close."

15 October

  • Joe Biden says "I wasn’t the only one that thought it was a mistake”.

16 October

  • MP for [where?] Crispin Blunt becomes first Tory MP to publicly call for Truss to resign. He is followed by Andrew Bridgen and Jamie Wallis.

17 October

  • Hunt says that most of the measures in the mini-budget will not be implemented, and that the country needed to rebuild investor confidence. He says that the 1 ppt cut to basic rate of income tax won't happen, and that cap on energy prices will be reviewed in April, rather than lasting two years.
  • Five Tory MPs call for her to resign: Crispin Blunt, Andrew Bridgen, Angela Richardson, Charles Walker and Jamie Wallis
  • Speaking at a meeting of the One Nation group of Tory MPs, she says that “we tried to do too much too quickly”
  • In an interview with the BBC, Truss apologises for "mistakes that have been made", but says that she will lead Tories into next election

18 October

  • Downing Street suggests that they may ditch triple lock on pensions
  • Speaking to European Research Group (ERG), Truss tells them that she found axing her tax-slashing programme “painful” and did it “because she had to”.
  • David Frost calls for Truss to resign

19 October

  • Braverman resigns as Home Secretary in a letter, after she broke rules by sending an official document from her personal e-mail account. Truss replaces here with Grant Shapps.
  • Says she is "a fighter not a quitter"
  • Tory MPs are told that a vote on a motion banning fracking brought by Labour would be treated as a confidence motion, but climate minister Graham Stuart tells the Commons: “Quite clearly this is not a confidence vote."
  • Labour's motion is defeated by 326 to 230

20 October

  • Outside 10 Downing Street, Truss announces her intention to resign

25 October

  • Offers resignation to Charles III. Her premiership lasted 49 days, making her the shortest-serving PM ever.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.webcitation.org/5yyhRtAQN
  2. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7815396.stm

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