The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

‘We want living wages, we want proper living wages,’ says Helen Somers.

Energy bosses are expected to meet with ministers on Thursday.

Beijing blames its actions on US House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan

Tory frontrunner also urged to keep sleaze investigation into outgoing PM open

'And she calls me an attention-seeker', said Nicola Sturgeon. 'That was the main topic of conversation she was interested in pursuing. And once we'd exhausted that it kind of dried up'

This Conservative leadership contest is getting weirder. It started out straightforwardly enough. Rishi Sunak was the MPs’ favourite (though at no stage did he command anything approaching majority support) with a pitch based on ‘sound money’ and tax cuts soon but not now.

The Government is being urged to take further action as prices are forecast to rocket in October, and again in January.

The number of people saying the former chancellor would make a good prime minister fell over the last week of July.

During Iain Dale's All Talk with Nicola Sturgeon at the Fringe, the FM said the only time she has ever met Truss was at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow last year.

The two contenders to take over in Downing Street both made pledges to get the long-awaited A1 widening between Morpeth and Ellingham back on track on Tuesday night

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are competing to take over as Prime Minister, but both have very different ideas about how to tacke the cost of living crisis gripping the country