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Downing Street today said Rishi Sunak could no longer commit to any of the pledges he made just two months ago - or those in the party’s 2019 general election manifesto

Downing Street said the PM is considering whether promises made over the summer are still ‘deliverable’.

The Prime Minister's spokesperson said the economic situation had changed since the campaign in the summer and they may not be “deliverable”

The new prime minister’s main redeeming quality is that he is not his predecessors. What a sorry waste of 12 years in power

The chancellor’s autumn statement is expected to include both tax increases and public spending cuts

The former ITV boss was among the award-winning team who helped to expose Boris Johnson. Katie Strick charts her rise to the heart of Downing Street

Politics in government, when it is done properly, is meant to be boring. The process of change is glacial and not an especially interesting spectator sport. It is a mark of how badly the Conservative party has recently been conducting its politics that it has not managed to be boring…

The PM is under mounting pressure to attend the climate conference in Egypt. 

The Prime Minister has faced criticism from Tory MPs over his decision to shun the Cop27 conference in Egypt

Cabinet minister Michael Gove said the Government will ‘field the strongest possible team’ for the United Nations climate summit in Egypt next month

Prime Minister’s lack of attendance has been branded a ‘lack of leadership’ ahead of a gathering of world figures for the climate summit