Prime Minister Liz Truss vowed to raise the country’s corporate tax rate, reversing a plan that had been outlined in a set of measures that her government proposed last month. She also fired Kwasi Kwarteng, her finance minister.
Fighting for her political survival, Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her top ally and reversed course on tax-cutting plans, trying to shore up financial markets and her poll ratings.
Hosted at the Royal Air Force Museum, London, this two-day conference brings together an interdisciplinary field of academics and scholars to present research which challenges the accepted historical consensus. The conference will explore the meaning of parts of the past and establish their importance to the historical and will feature a keynote address given by Richard Toye entitled: ‘Bet you’re sorry you won!’: Generations, authority, and honour in the public memory of the Second World War.