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Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt, two contenders in Britain's previous leadership contest this year, are believed to be in the running to become the nation's next prime minister following Liz Truss's resignation on Thursday, Sky News reported.

Whether it was sexism that brought her down, her inexperience and overconfidence, her party's unravelling, or a combination of all three, Liz Truss plunged over the glass cliff with breathtaking speed.

From soaring mortgage costs to a sterling slump, the fiscal event set off a chain of chaos that led to PM’s downfall

Liz Truss announced on Thursday she was quitting after just 44 days in No10, becoming Britain’s shortest serving Prime Minister. Speaking in Downing Street shortly after 1.30pm, she told the nation she was resigning after an open revolt by Tory MPs against her chaotic and crisis-hit premiership.

The former head of Britain's MI6 recently said Russian President Vladimir Putin could be replaced by someone more extreme

Malorie Blackman who is best known for Noughts and Crosses which was turned into a BBC drama, said that history lessons should tell “the whole truth” about Britain's role in slavery.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the Conservative Party needs to keep the future of the British people out of its “pathetic squabbles”.He said the Tories have wrecked national and household finances, adding: “Britain deserves better, Britain cannot afford the chaos of the Conservatives any more; we need a general…

An estimated 2.3 million people in Britain have self-reported long Covid, according to latest figures from the Office of National Statistics

Observers suggest PM’s failure could spell end of ‘wishful thinking’ of a sovereign UK going its own way

Ben Wallace told parliament Britain had suspended patrols following the incident and expressed their concerns to Russia's Defence Minister

Child sex abuse is epidemic in Britain, affecting millions of victims, and those who work with young people should be prosecuted if they fail to report it, a seven-year public inquiry concluded on Thursday.