Happy Monday.
To be ITK, know this:
Read this: Liz Truss will have to be great just to be good: But there are political opportunities if she can get her response to the energy crisis right. Robert Shrimsley
+ "Liz Truss should enjoy the next 48 hours. They may be the happiest of her premiership. It is hard to think of many new prime ministers who have faced so many different crises from day one."
+ @truemagic68: I send PM Truss my good wishes but this will be no walk in the park. She needs to put together a Cabinet of all comers - not just her chums, supporters and right wingers. So sad Rishi Sunak will not be a senior player!
Since 2010 UK PMs:
David Cameron
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
Liz Truss
+ The UK has seen a grand total of now 80 Prime Ministers since 1721
+ 14 – soon to be 15 – of which have served during Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s reign
Read this: Ideological strength could be Liz Truss’s key weakness, hopes Labour: Party weighs up foreign secretary’s vulnerabilities as it hones tactics to defeat her in No 10. Peter Walker
+ Truss is seen as a competent Commons performer, and Labour could also suffer from her status as the third Conservative prime minister who is a woman when they have never had a permanent female leader
Read this: Liz Truss: The new Iron Lady? As Liz Truss now leads the polls in the Tory leadership campaign, Charlotte Edwardes speaks to Westminster insiders about the most powerful woman in politics. The Times
Must read on Liz Truss from December 2021
+ If there is a leadership race any time soon, Liz Truss is in pole position. For the past year, she’s been a favorite among party members and has an 82 percent net satisfaction rating, according to the Conservative Home website
Russia switches off Europe’s main gas pipeline until sanctions are lifted: FT reports Gazprom had previously said it was halting flows through Nord Stream 1 because of a technical fault.
Chilean voters overwhelmingly reject proposed leftist constitution: CNN reports Chilean voters resoundingly rejected a new, progressive constitution in a referendum on Sunday, following a nearly two-year process that aimed to reflect a broader array of voices in the nation's document.
+ With almost all of the ballots counted, 62% of voters rejected the proposal, with 38% voting in favor, according to the Chile Electoral Service.
Read this: EU and US politicians can’t resist Pelosi’s stunt: At the Cannes Film Festival, a leading starlet pulls a stunt on the red carpet, and then every wannabe star follows suit and hopes for the same publicity. The same principle applies in politics. Alex Lo
+ @pstAsiatech: Say what you like about Pelosi and her controversial visit to Taiwan. It was political theatre at its grandest. How many people could claim to have single-handedly provoked a full-scale military drill from mainland China? That has to be one for the ages.
Biden assails ‘Trumpies’ in Labor Day battleground pitches: AP reports President Joe Biden excoriated “MAGA Republicans, the extreme right and Trumpies” on Monday, pitching his Labor Day appeals to union members he hopes will turn out in force for his party in November.
+ Biden is making his third trip to Pennsylvania in less than a week... illustrating the battleground state’s importance to both parties as Labor Day kicks off a nine-week sprint to crucial midterm elections
Ahead of Election 2022 and amid false claims about Election 2020, Frontline’s “Lies, Politics and Democracy” presents new details from GOP insiders on how the embrace of former President Trump’s rhetoric led the US to this precarious moment. Premieres tomorrow, September 6, on PBS. Watch the trailer.
OTD: In 1882, North London Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur is founded as Hotspur FC.
Read this: Enough, bosses say: This fall, it really is time to get back to the office*: After more than two years, corporate leaders say time is up on avoiding in-person work. WSJ
+ “A lot of employers are saying, ‘We’re going to set a line of demarcation,’ ” this fall, said Steve Pemberton, chief human-resources officer at the workplace technology company Workhuman
+ Corporate leaders are arming themselves with new data that help to bolster their case for in-person work
+ What makes the return effort more complex now is that many employees say they appreciate the flexibility that comes with remote work, and hope to retain at least a hybrid arrangement, according to interviews and surveys
Read this: The basics Dave Trott
+ We seem to have forgotten the basic part: “To deliver useful consumer information.”
Enjoy the ride + plan accordingly.
-Marc
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