Prime minister to meet Kwasi Kwarteng after early return from US, as pressure builds to scrap planned tax cut Friday’s politics news: latest updates Liz …
Speculation that reversal on leadership campaign pledge risks split with her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng Liz Truss has bowed to intense pressure from Conservative MPs and …
Fylde council, home to Preston New Road shale gas site in Lancashire, unanimously backs motion A Conservative-led council in Lancashire has voted unanimously to demand …
Foreign secretary James Cleverly tells colleagues removing the prime minister would be a ‘disastrously bad idea’ The foreign secretary, James Cleverly, said the government will …
Monarch has awkward exchange with under-fire UK prime minister at first weekly audience Liz Truss could be forgiven for assuming her first weekly audience with …
PM accused of ‘trashing’ Conservative values and a PMQs performance that was ‘just appalling’ Liz Truss’ leadership was in fresh peril on Wednesday with calls …
PM appears at second PMQs and first since mini-budget triggered alarm in markets Sajid Javid, the former Tory chancellor, has been speaking at an event …
Prime minister accused of ‘another screeching U-turn’ having previously rejected calls to impose levy Renewable power companies will have their revenues capped in England and …
Washington-based agency says UK policy reversal would calm jittery markets and ‘change trajectory’ of interest rates The International Monetary Fund has added to pressure on …
Bowler becomes permanent secretary at Treasury after apparent reversal of plans to bring in outsider Latest politics news – live Liz Truss has appointed a …
Latest updates: Victoria Prentis suggests PM may give in to demands over lifting benefits in line with inflation, saying ‘most vulnerable’ must get priority Just …
Rising costs are also forcing local councils to ration energy use, raising fears for the safety of vulnerable people Liz Truss has ignored the government’s …
The PM and chancellor will try to stop panic spreading through the party after their high-risk economic plan threatens a ‘death spiral’ The prime minister, …
Linking with pay rather than inflation would leave households worse off – but ministers must get measure past their own MPs Low-income households will be …
Wildlife charities, Tory former minsters and millions of ordinary people raise alarm over environment Liz Truss is facing a rural revolt against her plans to …
At Euston picket line, RMT general secretary talks of ‘incompetence’ of new prime minister and chancellor Union chief Mick Lynch has compared Liz Truss’s government …
Comments come as polls deliver sobering verdict on Scotland’s ruling party as it prepares for conference Nicola Sturgeon has accused Liz Truss of doing “real …
Business confidence sinks to lowest level since depth of Covid pandemic as rising costs hit households and companies Britain’s economy is expected to take until …
A former Conservative cabinet minister says he is willing to get “kicked out” the party by rebelling against Liz Truss’s proposed real-terms benefit cut.
Exclusive: Free Market Forum suggests scrapping free childcare hours and abolishing corporation tax A free-market thinktank with close links to Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng …
Former culture secretary tells the PM to ‘U-turn or face election wipeout’ in interview with the Times In his interviews this morning Keir Starmer refused …
Liz Truss has promised that legislation will be written up to ensure that “no European judge can overrule us” as the government takes “decisive action” …