The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

The First Minister said prime minister candidate Liz Truss’s proposal would not significantly reduce bills.

Inside 10 Downing Street nothing is stirring. Boris Johnson has, in effect, checked out and the staff in the building are waiting for the next incumbent. We are in the midst of a leadership contest which, thought it has hardly seemed to start, appears destined never to end. Eventually, on September 5,…

Sympathy for the former prime minister despite partygate

Taxation has turned out to be the main issue dividing the two candidates in the current Conservative Party leadership contest. While Rishi Sunak wants to hold off making tax cuts until after the cost of living crisis has been tackled, Liz Truss wants immediate reductions. She believes cutting taxes will…

Senior Tory MP Sir John Redwood has accused the former chancellor of flip-flopping over tax cuts that he once said were unaffordable

The Cardiff Central MP lays out what her party plans to do about rising energy prices

Critics warn next PM would be ‘flying blind’

City experts’ fears over energy price surge and claim rates could hit 7%

Labour has set out plans to upgrade 19 million homes across the country over the next decade in a major insulation project.

INVESTMENT bank Citi has predicted that UK inflation is on course to rise to 18.6 per cent in January – the highest peak in almost half a century.

He joined Conservatives from Scotland and Northern Ireland to write a piece backing the favourite