The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Senior former Welsh Tory minister Stephen Crabb says the U-turns so far have not been enough to pacify anger on Conservative benches

The Prime Minister is reportedly considering raising benefits in line with earnings rather than inflation - and telling claimants it is unfair to receive a higher raise than workers.

The Conservative Party Conference is currently underway in Birmingham, with prime minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in attendance as they discuss policies and U-turns

PM facing fresh battle with MPs as she declines to commit to raising benefits in line with inflation

British Prime Minister Liz Truss triggered a new row in her party on Tuesday by suggesting she could limit increases in benefit payments to less than soaring inflation as she seeks ways to fund her tax-cutting growth plan.

PRIME Minister Liz Truss has refused to rule out real-terms benefit cuts in order to help pay for her government’s tax-cutting growth plan.

The Prime Minister acknowledged that she 'should have been more specific' when she incorrectly said that nobody would pay fuel bills of more than £2,500 - which is an average rather than a cap

One Nation Tory Damian Green said Liz Truss would 'probably not' get benefit cuts through Parliament - as even serving minister Penny Mordaunt warned she must not 'help people with one hand and take away with another'

‘I want to see the London Mayor do more to tackle crime in the capital’

Kwasi Kwarteng has sought to shrug off the chaos that triggered his astonishing U-turn on income tax cuts for the highest earners as a “little turbulence” as he battled to regain authority. The Chancellor remarked it had been a “tough” day as he told Conservative members in his set-piece conference…

PM says says she backs idea to abolish tax cut for high earners in principle despite shelving it for now