The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

The Labour leader said it would be ‘the right thing to do’ for PM to turn down grant after just 44 days in office

Panicking Tories, scarred by Liz Truss's chaos-ridden stint in No10, seem to have forgotten that Boris Johnson's own time in office was riddled with turmoil and sleaze

LIZ Truss announced on Thursday she would be departing Number 10 in just a week’s time after just 45 days in office.

Romaine calm

Could Liz Truss carry out another U-turn and return to the Lib Dems? Or pick up a role as a cheesemonger after her impassioned speech on the addictive dairy product? We take a look at the job offers suggested for the shortest-serving Prime Minister

Editors explain tabloid stunt that ‘really captured the mood of the nation’

Short-lived governments are routine in some democracies, with uncertainty the norm and predictability ever elusive. Yet never in London, where hundreds of years of steady parliamentary rule set a standard for the world going back to the first prime minister, Robert Walpole, three centuries ago. His two decades were a…

Christian Matheson was facing a four-week suspension from the Labour party

The departure of British Prime Minister Liz Truss, after six chaotic weeks marked by policy U-turns and growing discontent within her own Conservative Party, spells more uncertainty for the United Kingdom, financial markets and foreign policy. As the contest to succeed Britain's shortest-serving premier begins, the country is seeking a…