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The new Prime Minister is also expected to announce an end to the fracking ban

While welcoming the armoured plans that Ms Truss will freeze the energy price cap this winter, Martin Lewis affirmed that a long-term plan needs to be in place

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…