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All Liz Truss's U-turns so far in her chaotic 41-day term as Prime Minister

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Published Oct 18, 2022
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  • Unique Sources as Poor for the lower number of different sources.
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Policy Leaning Analysis

This article includes the following sentiments, providing an average bias score of 10% Conservative:

  • 1 positive sentiment and 3 negative sentiments for Taxes.
  • 1 positive sentiment for Clean Energy
  • 4 negative sentiments for Government Spending

Politician Portrayal Analysis:

This article includes the following Politician Portrayal sentiments, providing an average sentiment of 0% Neutral and bias score of N/A:

1 negative sentiment and 1 positive sentiment for Susan M. Collins
1 negative sentiment for Bill Clinton
2 negative sentiments for Donald Trump
1 negative sentiment for Neil Gorsuch
1 negative sentiment for Brett Kavanaugh

Policies:

Clean Energy
Taxes
Government Spending

Politicians:

Susan M. Collins
Bill Clinton
Donald Trump
Neil Gorsuch
Brett Kavanaugh

Sentiments

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8% "She dropped plans to axe the 45p top rate of Income Tax, a day after saying she was absolutely committed to it on national ..."
2% "Renewable energy generators and nuclear plants will have their revenues capped under a new Government plan to ensure they are not benefitting from record-high ..."
0% "The cut in tax from 45% to 40% on earnings over £150,000 would have cost £2bn a year, and handed a £10k-a-head average saving ..."
-6% "1p income tax cutAnother flagship Truss policy which came crashing down in flames was the plan to reduce the basic rate of tax by ..."
-6% "She said: What I don't support is taking money off people in tax and then giving it back to them in handouts.""
-10% "Mr Kwarteng's original plan was to freeze tax on booze from February next year.""
-16% "No public spending cuts""
-16% "In a leadership campaign which was very light on detail, Ms Truss was very clear on one thing - there would be no public ..."
-22% "She told The Mirror in July when questioned on how her tax cuts would be funded: I'm very clear I'm not planning public spending ..."
-24% "Ms Truss has previously ruled out public spending cuts ( Image: PA)Trophy hunting""

We have listed the top 10 sentiments. More sentiments do exist. Please review the full article for more information.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : She dropped plans to axe the 45p top rate of Income Tax, a day after saying she was "absolutely committed" to it on national TV.
51% :Renewable energy generators and nuclear plants will have their revenues capped under a new Government plan to ensure they are not benefitting from record-high energy prices, while oil and gas producers are subject to a windfall tax alongside them.
50% : The cut in tax from 45% to 40% on earnings over £150,000 would have cost £2bn a year, and handed a £10k-a-head average saving annually to 660,000 very wealthy people.
47% :1p income tax cutAnother flagship Truss policy which came crashing down in flames was the plan to reduce the basic rate of tax by 1p.
47% : She said: "What I don't support is taking money off people in tax and then giving it back to them in handouts.
45% : Mr Kwarteng's original plan was to freeze tax on booze from February next year.
42% : No public spending cuts
42% : In a leadership campaign which was very light on detail, Ms Truss was very clear on one thing - there would be no public spending cuts.
39% : She told The Mirror in July when questioned on how her tax cuts would be funded: "I'm very clear I'm not planning public spending reductions."
38% : Ms Truss has previously ruled out public spending cuts ( Image: PA)Trophy hunting

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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