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=Timeline of the Liz Truss premiership=

July
7 July
 * Boris Johnson announces in a speech outside 10 Downing Street that he will resign as prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party, and that he will continue as caretaker prime minister until a new leader is chosen.

8 July
 * In a video posted to the social networking service Twitter, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announces his intention to stand for leader of the Conservative Party. If elected, he promises to "restore trust, rebuild the economy and reunite the country".

10 July
 * Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announces her candidacy in an article in the Daily Telegraph. She promises to cut taxes "from day one".

13–20 July
 * Five ballots of MPs. The final vote sees Truss have second-highest number of endorsements from Conservative MPs. She faces Rishi Sunak in the run-off for the leadership, voted on by about 172,000 people.

25 July
 * First Sunak-Truss debate on BBC One. Truss says that she will borrow to pay for tax cuts. Sunak says that her plan would increase public debt, which Truss dismisses as "Project Fear".

'''26 July
 * Second Sunak-Truss debate on Talk TV

15 August
 * Paul Johnson of IFS attacks the economic plans of both Truss and Sunak.

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
 * When asked whether Macron is friend or foe, says "the jury's out".

September
2 September
 * Votes close at 5 p.m. for leadership election

3 September
 * Writes article in Telegraph

5 September
 * At [where?], she is announced as winner of election and becomes leader of Conservative Party with 81,326 votes from Conservative members again Sunak's 60,399. She promises a "bold plan" to cut taxes and gorw the economy, and will "deliver on the energy crisis" (in her speech?) "I campaigned as a Conservative and I will govern as a Conservative."

September
6 September
 * In Balmoral, Queen accept's Johnson's resignation, then asks Truss to form government in her name.
 * Delivers first speech as PM outside Downing Street. She promises to "get Britain working again", grow the economy through tax cuts, and "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."
 * Appoints allies Kwarteng as Chancellor and Therese Coffey as Health Minister (or was it the next day?)
 * Zelensky is first foreign leader to speak with Truss
 * 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 her new Cabinet and chairs its first meeting
 * First PMQs. She says that she will set out a package of support to help households and businesses deal with energy bills, but rules out a windfall tax on energy firms, telling MPs: "We cannot tax our way to growth."
 * 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.
 * Just before midday in the House of Commons, she announces £100 billion Energy Price Guarantee, which puts a cap on domestic energy prices at an average of £2,5000 a year for two years, "and promises support for businesses struggling with bills for six months, with targeted help for vulnerable firms beyond that"
 * 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, saying that everyone was devastated, and that the Queen was "the rock on which modern Britain was built".

9 September
 * Kings holds his first in-person audience with Truss at Buckingham Palace

12 September
 * Attends service of thanksgiving for Queen (where?)

When? Leads tributes in the Commons. Attends the accession to the throne of King Charles, and follows him to cathedral services in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

19 September
 * Reads a lesson (which?) at Queen's funeral service as Westminster Abbey
 * Travels to New York City to attend the 77th United Nations General Assembly

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. Biden restates his commitment to Good Friday Agreement
 * Deliver speech to the UN General Assembly

23 September
 * Kwarteng delivers "Growth Plan", £45bn of unfunded tax cuts, the most significant raft of 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 cap on bankers bonuses, while adding restrictions to the welfare system. It will be funded by £70bn of increased borrowing.
 * Market reaction to mini-budget
 * Speaking to reporters that evening, Kwarteng "insists his plan will encourage investment in the UK and rejects the suggestion his economic announcement was "a gamble"."

26 September
 * Pound hits $1.0350, a 37-year low (or was it the day before?). Cost of borrowing for the UK rises sharply.
 * Kwarteng promises more tax cuts.
 * Bank says it would "not hesitate to change interest rates as necessary".

27 September
 * Treasury promises to give an update on 23 November "on how the government would ensure borrowing would not spiral out of control"
 * IMF says that tax cuts will increase inequality and that they are "closely monitoring" developments
 * Pound continues to fall; mortgage lenders begin to remove products
 * Keir Starmer says that Truss's government has "lost control of the British economy".
 * Truss publishes article for Daily Mail

28 September
 * Bank of England announces that it was temporarily buying up £65bn worth of long-dated UK government bonds “to restore orderly market conditions” and prevent "material risk"
 * Truss speaks with Vlodymyr Zelensky
 * Minister tells Sky News it is "bullshit" that the market chaos was due to the mini budget

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.
 * She faces criticism for not speaking sooner.

When?
 * A YouGov poll for The Times reveals that 54% of the population would back Labour at an election, a 33-point lead over the Tories

30 September
 * Publishes article for The Sun (https://www.thesun. co.uk/news/19972195/liz-truss-bills-government-on-your-side/), in which she says that her plan "involves difficult decisions and does involve disruption in the short term", but that what she is doing is "right for the country".

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

2 October
 * Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Truss acknowledges mistakes over mini-budget, but says that she is sticking to the plan. She says that abolishing 45p top rate of tax was decided by him and not discussed with Cabinet, but that she remains "absolutely committed" to it.

When?
 * Michael Gove and Grant Shapps on scrapping the 45p tax rate

3 October
 * Publishes article for The Telegraph
 * Gove says he would vote against 45p tax rate
 * Kwarteng announces U-turn on abolishing 45p top rate of tax, saying that it had become a "distraction", but that he was "not at all" considering resigning.

4 October
 * Speaking with Beth Rigby for Sky News, Truss says she has "absolutely no shame" about change of direction
 * In an interview, Truss refuses to rule out increasing benefits in line with inflation

5 October
 * At 11:05 a.m., Truss delivers her first keynote speech as party leader at Conservative Party Conference. She pledges that she will “get Britain moving”, and "I get it, and I have listened" over the top rate tax. Says that she and Kwarteng "will keep closely co-ordinating our monetary and fiscal policy". Blasts opponents (Labour, LDs, SNP, protestors and unions) as anti-growth coalition.

6 October
 * Publishes article for The Times (https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/liz-truss-time-to-find-common-cause-with-our-european-friends-m09kjt5wl)
 * Travels to Prague to attend the inaugural meeting of the European Political Community about their response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine
 * Holds bilateral talks with Macron, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala
 * Holds discussions with allies on progressing Sizewell C and building more nuclear power stations.

7 October
 * The Times reports that Rees-Mogg backed a £15 energy-saving public information campaign, but he was overruled by Truss

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?)

10 October
 * Meets Lionesses with Gillian Keegan
 * Kwarteng agrees to bring forward the publication date of his detailed financial strategy and independent economic forecasts from 23 November to October 31, three weeks earlier than scheduled, and agrees to set out his medium-term fiscal plan, accompanied by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecast.

11 October
 * G7 Leaders' joint statement on Ukraine
 * MPs return to Westminster. Bill to cancel the Health & Social Care Levy concludes its passage through the House of Commons
 * Introduces new Energy Prices Bill (a windfall tax on renewable power companies?), but reports emerge that Truss wants to ban solar panels from farmland
 * BoE expands its programme of daily bond purchases
 * Kwarteng "warned, during a session of Treasury questions, that the Government's economic credibility would be further shredded if he tries to push through the policies without the support of Conservative MPs."

12 October
 * Truss's second PMQs. She responds to news that British government borrowing costs have hit a 20-year high by insisting that she won't reverse her tax cuts nor reduce public spending to balance the books, but "insists taxpayers' money will be used well"
 * At the International Monetary Fund talks in Washington, attended by Kwarteng, world financial leaders criticise the government's plans (or the next day?)

13 October
 * Kwarteng says his "total focus is on delivering on the mini-budget"
 * Nadine Dorries suggests "Conservative MPs were circulating names for who should replace Truss"

14 October
 * The Bank of England’s intervention supporting the bond market draws to a close. The pound falls further as a result.
 * Kwarteng flies back early from International Monetary Fund talks in Washington (or previous day?). He travels straight from the airport to 10 Downing Street, where Truss dismisses him as Chancellor after 38 days in the job, making him the shortest serving chancellor since Iain Macleod in 1970. With an hour, she appoints Jeremy Hunt as the new Chancellor.
 * Hosts eight-minute press conference at Downing Street in which she answers four questions. She confirms that she will keep the planned rise of corporation tax from 19% to 25 percent from April next year—which will generate £18bn for the Exchequer a year—saying that "The way we deliver our mission has to changed."
 * Daily Star begin live stream of a lettuce dressed as Truss

15 October
 * In a series of broadcast interviews, Hunt says that economic plan is defunct. He criticises the administration's "mistakes" to "fly blind" by announcing the mini-budget without an OBR forecast alongside it, and says that "difficult decisions" lie ahead on tax and spending.
 * Joe Biden says "I wasn’t the only one that thought it was a mistake”, and says that outcome was "predictable".

16 October
 * On TV(?), MP for [where?] Crispin Blunt becomes first Tory MP to publicly call for Truss to resign, saying that the "game is up". He is followed by Andrew Bridgen and Jamie Wallis.

17 October
 * Motion of no confidence submitted (really?)
 * In an emergency statement in the House of Commons (or from the Treasury?) lasting approximately 30 minutes, 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 cuts to basic rate of income tax and dividend tax won't happen, and that cap on energy prices will be reviewed in April, rather than lasting two years.
 * Labour secures an urgent question in the HoC about Kwarteng's firing. Truss sends Penny Mordaunt to answer the question, who says that Truss wasn't "hiding under a desk" (or was it the next day?)
 * Tory MPs calling for Truss to resign reach five: Crispin Blunt, Andrew Bridgen, Angela Richardson, Charles Walker and Jamie Wallis
 * Speaking in the HoC for 30 minutes, Hunt gives statement on reversals of Truss's economic policy
 * 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 Chris Mason of the BBC, Truss apologises for "mistakes that have been made" and says sorry, but says that she will lead Tories into next election

18 October
 * Downing Street suggests that they may ditch triple lock on pensions, cut benefits or reduce the defence buget, sparking backlash.
 * 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, while Michael Gove says that "it was a matter of when and not if Truss was removed as prime minister."
 * Truss meets with Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs

19 October
 * Sir John Cunliffe, a deputy government of BoE, says that the bank was not briefed about Truss's plans for tax cuts
 * At her third PMQs, Truss says she is "a fighter not a quitter"
 * Braverman resigns as Home Secretary, after she broke rules by sending an official document from her personal e-mail account. In her resignation letter, she says that she has concerns over the government's direction. Truss replaces her with Grant Shapps.
 * Tory MPs are told by deputy chief whip Craig Whittaker 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
 * Brady enters Downing Street through back door to speak with Truss, at her request
 * At 1:30 p.m., outside 10 Downing Street, Truss announces her intention to resign. Says she can't deliver the "mandate" she was elected on.

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