The Latest Breaking News from Downing Street

King Charles welcomed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and business leaders including fashion designer Stella McCartney at reception at Buckingham Palace today ahead of the Cop27 climate change summit

There has also been speculation that the Sizewell C nuclear power plant could be delayed or scrapped.

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.