The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Brian Reade says crisis-hit Britain is currently rudderless with the PM absent and the two candidates hoping to take over from him possibly even worse than Boris Johnson

The Foreign Secretary is instead set to meet the National Farmers’ Union on September 1.

The former Chancellor said he would empower local councillors to hold "failing" mayors to account

There are just two weeks left in a leadership contest that has been going on since sometime in the early Mesozoic period, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Transport secretary steps up battle with unions, saying ‘That is the direction this is moving in now’

Officials say Truss is ‘likely to continue the policies and tone of Johnson’s government’

Jake Berry said the new Conservative leader would be under pressure to boost the stalling economy and cap soaring bills

The price cap is expected to rise to £3,582 in October before increasing again to £4,266 in January

Before the 2016 referendum, a minister in the then-Cameron government, who was voting for Brexit, asked Liz Truss, with whom they worked closely, which way she was going to swing. She replied, with little hesitation, that although she believed in Brexit, because it was highly likely the Leave camp would…

Sunak and Truss make any number of promises about what they’ll do as PM – but they will do nothing, like the rest of them , says Liz

LIZ Truss has been accused of delaying an annual report on human rights because it is likely to criticise Rwanda’s human rights record.