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Senior Treasury official Sir Tom Scholar leaves post after six years

The experienced mandarin says the new Chancellor believes it is time for change at the helm of the department.

Tom Scholar, permanent secretary to the Treasury, sacked by Liz Truss

Government likely to seek replacement amenable to its plans of economic growth through tax cuts

Truss and Kwarteng’s old departments reprimanded for failing to comply with transparency laws

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Department for International Trade given its first enforcement notice in seven years

“I believe many businesses will still be forced to close” - Sacha Lord wants clarity for hospitality industry as energy support announced

The night-time economy advisor believes new measures will not be enough to avoid closures and redundancies

Manchester Evening News

Ripple of rumour around the Commons as concern grows for the Queen

Nadhim Zahawi slips into chamber during energy debate to deliver message to Liz Truss and then opposition

Martin Lewis explains what Liz Truss' plans to tackle energy bills mean for you

The government announced a massive £150bn price support package on Thursday

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The U.K. now has its most diverse Cabinet in history thanks to new PM Liz Truss

For the first time in British history, none of the four most senior Cabinet posts — prime minister, chancellor of the exchequer, foreign secretary and home secretary — are taken up by a white male.

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The rise of Kwarteng, Badenoch and Cleverly must change the face of Labour

For too long, the progressive party has done too little to show its black members they can reach the top. There can be no more excuses, says former journalist and publisher Michael Eboda

ECB hikes interest rates by record 75bp and slashes growth forecasts – as it happened

Christine Lagarde warns that eurozone economic growth is weakening, but EBC plumps for record increase in borrowing costs to curb inflation

Fury as Liz Truss to allow fracking today despite her own Chancellor saying it won't work

$Fury as Liz Truss to allow fracking today despite her own Chancellor saying it won't work$

New Prime Minister Liz Truss is set to lift the ban on fracking as part of her energy bills plan - despite Kwasi Kwarteng saying in March that it wouldn't solve the crisis

Truss to lift ban on fracking under plan to increase UK’s energy supply

$Truss to lift ban on fracking under plan to increase UK’s energy supply$

New PM will resume extraction of shale gas in places where it is opposed by local communities

Thursday briefing: What we know about Liz Truss’ plan to curb energy bills

In today’s newsletter: Days into her reign, the new prime minister will announce an effort to tackle rising prices – here’s what it might include

Liz Truss ‘to ditch fracking ban’ as she reveals fresh cost-of-living support

$Liz Truss ‘to ditch fracking ban’ as she reveals fresh cost-of-living support$

The new premier is expected to tell MPs on Thursday that domestic bills will be frozen at around £2,500.

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Liz Truss’s rejection of windfall tax ‘to saddle UK with debt for decades’

Bill could be higher than cost of bank bailout after 2008 financial crash, expert warns

Ex-BBC journalist blasted over racist 'coconut cabinet' comment on Liz Truss appointments

Iain Macwhirter reposted a tweet about Kwasi Kwarteng, James Cleverly and Suella Braverman and used an offensive term

The National (Scotland)

Analysis: How diverse is Liz Truss's Cabinet and how many went to private school?

COMMENTATORS have been praising Liz Truss's "diverse" cabinet appointments - but is it all that it seems?

Will Liz Truss’s government adopt or weaken green policies?

Environmentalists assess cabinet appointments and say it is ‘a mixed bag’ and there is no clear direction

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With no new windfall tax on energy firms, a cap on nuclear and renewables is urgently needed

Ending the outdated system that links some electricity generators’ revenues to wholesale gas prices could fund UK rescue package

Evening Standard

Liz Truss holds out olive branch to Rishi Sunak backers as she recasts junior team

Several MPs who supported the former chancellor in the Tory leadership contest have been handed ministerial roles

In Liz Truss’s cabinet, loyalty looks like the only quality that really counts

The prime minister has kept her friends close. But will that be enough, when winter bites, asks Katy Balls, the Spectator’s deputy political editor