The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Under the slogan “#ChangeLDP”, Japan’s long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has elected Sanae Takaichi as its new leader. Pending a vote in the Diet’s lower house later this month, she is poised to become Japan’s next prime minister — and the first woman ever to hold the post.

Shadow chancellor will use his Tory conference speech to set plans to cut welfare spending, foreign aid and the Civil Service if his party wins the next election

Greater Manchester mayor denied he would be ‘hopeless’ on the economy as he tried to play down speculation over his political ambitions

ASK ME ANYTHING: Chief political commentator John Rentoul answers your questions on Labour’s leadership woes, the rise of Reform, and what it means for Keir Starmer’s premiership

Chancellor tells party conference that higher borrowing to pay for public services risks serious damage to the economy

The red-on-red attack shows how far relations have deteriorated between Andy Burnham and Keir Starmer’s camp

His comments come after the PM compared the Greater Manchester mayor to Liz Truss

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The chancellor is entitled to point out that her Tory predecessors are partly responsible, but she cannot avoid the consequences of her own decisions

COMMENT: The names, photos and addresses of 8,000 children have been stolen, with some published on the dark net. Victoria Richards writes of the terror the affected families must be feeling – and how the hack is symptomatic of a wider, darker malaise