The Reform UK leader has repeatedly heaped praise upon the former Tory PM – whose disastrous mini-budget crashed the economy and sent mortgages spiralling 19:54, 31 May 2025Updated 19:57, 31 May 2025 Nigel Farage is a big fan of Liz Truss(Image: AFP via Getty Images) Nigel Farage would lock Britain into a “Truss-style doom loop”,…
NEW YORK (AP) — The upheaval in stocks has been grabbing all the headlines, but there is a bigger problem looming in another corner of the financial markets that rarely gets headlines: Investors are dumping U.S. government bonds. Normally, investors rush into Treasurys at a whiff of economic chaos but now they are selling them…
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares sank Friday after U.S. stocks gave up much of their historic gains from the day before. The deepening worries over President Donald Trump’ s trade war initially helped pull Japan’s Nikkei 225 share index down 5.6%. By mid-morning in Tokyo, it was down 4.7% at 32,969.95. The yen surged against…
But Johnson’s battle with bureaucracy started long before then. When he entered Downing Street in 2019, he brought in maverick Vote Leave campaigner Dominic Cummings as chief adviser. Cummings, an ex-special adviser, spoke about slashing departments and hiring “weirdos” and “misfits” instead of Whitehall old hands to shake things up. Cummings was a former aide…