The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

The Tory PM hopeful spoke to GB News in the former ‘red wall’ seat of Leigh

The Tory leadership contender signalled he would provide billions of pounds to support families struggling with the cost of living.

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'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.