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She was responding to SDLP leader Colum Eastwood, who demanded she make clear whether she was "on the side of the DUP" or "struggling people in Northern Ireland"

Liz Truss could hardly pick worse circumstances under which to become Britain’s new prime minister, even leaving aside the rain that delayed her inaugural speech. She won a smaller share of her party’s votes than her predecessors, enjoys little public enthusiasm, and inherits potentially the worst economic crisis in a…

First act of new prime minister is to lift the ban on the controversial process

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

SCOTTISH Energy Secretary Michael Matheson has said that the Scottish Government does not plan to issue any licences to allow fracking to take…

Liz Truss will outline her plans to tackle rising energy bills in a statement today.

Her Majesty had her handbag on her arm as she formally invited the Conservative minister to form a new UK government in a meeting at her Scottish home of Balmoral.

The MP for Dumfries and Galloway said he had an agreement with leader of the Scottish Tory party Douglas Ross that they would "not declare" who they voted for to replace Boris Johnson.

It was an unfamiliar feeling of relief: whatever may be wrong with America, at least no one is looking to Liz Truss to solve it, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes