The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Letters: Sheila Cross agrees with Michael Rosen that social conditions now appear Dickensian, while Peter Riddle warns of real turbulence and Dr Neil Denby wonders why the wealthy always need carrots

Letters: Alastair McLeish sees no reason why the SNP leader should even try to be polite about the Conservative party. Plus a letter from Prof Gary Craig

Liz Truss and allies condemned Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities.

Two days of legal arguments in London will decide if Nicola Sturgeon can proceed with her plan to hold an IndyRef2 next year.

Every other recent Prime Minister has called Wales' leader on the day they took office and even King Charles managed to ring devolved leaders within 24 hours of his mother dying

Ex-Tory leader entitled to £115,000 a year in public funding for office

Households in Scotland claiming Universal Credit could be almost £300 worse off in real terms next year if the UK Government does not commit to increasing the benefit in line with inflation

Duncan Weldon’s excellent book, Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through, an economic history of Britain from the Industrial Revolution up to the pandemic, almost had a different title: “I wouldn’t start from here”, based on the old joke about the tourist asking for directions.

Liz Truss' government has been accused of 'betraying' renters after it was revealed there could be a U-turn on the ban of no-fault evictions during the cost of living crisis

The PM is pursued by Sir Keir Starmer, Michael Gove and others in In Liz We Trust?

Liz Truss is still weighing up whether to raise benefits by earnings instead of inflation - which would be a real-terms cut. We've crunched the latest numbers on how it could affect you in April 2022