A Palestinian engineer who returned to Gaza City after fleeing south is killed in an airstrike
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How did Harrison Ford get his chin scar? Actor's facial mark got special attention in his movies
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Labour use the Liz Truss lettuce to make point about the Tories economic failure
The Labour Party has brutally mocked the Tories' failure to deal with the economy with the Liz Truss lettuce. Last year, the former prime minister became associated with the salad vegetable when the Economist published a column saying she had caused turmoil during her premiership faster than the time it takes for a lettuce to go bad. It said: "Liz Truss is already a historical figure. However long she now lasts in office, she is set to be remembered as the prime minister whose grip on power was the shortest in British political history. Ms Truss entered Downing Street on September 6th. She blew up her own government with a package of unfunded tax cuts and energy-price guarantees on September 23rd. Take away the ten days of mourning after the death of the queen, and she had seven days in control. That is the shelf-life of a lettuce." The Daily Star then ran with the idea of livestreaming a lettuce, asking whether it or Truss would last longer (the lettuce won). After that, the lettuce became the most lasting symbol of Truss's premiership. Now, posting on Twitter, the opposition party has brought the meme back with a picture of a lettuce in a wig with googly eyes, to make a point about soaring inflation. They wrote: "The lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss would cost 20 per cent more today thanks to Tory economic failure." They added: "This is the cost of the Tories." Food inflation is coming down, but it is still very high. Latest British Retail Consortium (BRC) data suggests it dropped to 11.5 per cent in August from 13.1 per cent in July and 17.4 per cent in June. In the last year, popular staple supermarket items like eggs have seen an annual increase of 17.3 per cent to an average of £2.65 per pack, compared to 17.2 per cent for baked beans (£1.98), 7.2 per cent for toilet rolls (£5.83), and 5.9 per cent for milk (£1.80). Meanwhile, Labour have been ramping up their attack ads lately, recently attacking the Tories over the Raac crisis in schools. Now they've brought back the lettuce, it is clear Truss will never catch a break. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-09-06 18:49
Ukraine war: Training to clear the world's most heavily mined country
How British military bomb disposal teams are helping Ukrainian engineers clear Russian minefields.
2023-09-25 08:17
'They're not movie stars’: Chris Hemsworth recalls 'depressing' criticism his character Thor received
Chris Hemsworth was not too pleased with the newest Thor film and said it ‘became too silly’
2023-06-07 12:55
Kenya abortion: Women go to backstreet clinics amid legal ambiguity
An estimated seven Kenyan women die a day after unsafe abortions even though they are legal in some cases.
2023-11-27 09:20
Hurricane Idalia threatens to hit Florida as a catastrophic Category 4 storm Wednesday morning, and conditions are already deteriorating
Hurricane Idalia could crash into Florida's west coast as "an extremely dangerous Category 4" hurricane Wednesday morning, forecasters said -- a potentially catastrophic collision for a state that's already seeing coastal flooding and deteriorating conditions ahead of landfall.
2023-08-30 13:20
Tens of thousands at Burning Man told to conserve water and food after heavy rains leave attendees unable to leave Nevada desert
Tens of thousands of people attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert are being told to conserve food, water and fuel as they shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert after a heavy rainstorm pummeled the area, festival organizers said.
2023-09-03 03:52
German police search for a lion suspected of being on the loose in Berlin's suburbs
German authorities have warned people in Berlin’s southern suburbs to watch out for a potentially dangerous animal, suspected to be a lioness, that is on the loose
2023-07-20 16:52
Canada warns LGBT travellers of US risks
The Canadian government warns that some US states have enacted laws that may affect LBGT people.
2023-08-30 13:16
Rugby World Cup: Irish diaspora dream of quarter-final success
Irish rugby fans living in the home of the All Blacks hope for historic success later in Paris.
2023-10-14 14:47
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