The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

From Kemi Badenoch on toilets to Rishi Sunak’s war on ‘clumsy’ language, the would-be PMs are using a minority group’s right to exist as a tawdry talking point in their popularity contest, writes Zoe Williams

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries retweeted a doctored image of Boris Johnson as Julius Caesar with Rishi Sunak as a knife-wielding assassin.

The two Tory leadership hopefuls have very different views on what sort of tax policy the UK should be pursuing in the short-term, with Sunak suggesting that Truss' cut and borrow plan would be irresponsible

Exclusive: Tom Tugendhat likely to lead trip later this year as London’s relationship with Beijing deteriorates

Campaign spokesman claims her ‘true Remainer colours are starting to show’

The ill-thought-out ideas issuing from Britain’s prime ministerial candidates are a cause for alarm, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The demob-happy Prime Minister is squeezing in a summer break before he is replaced in No10 by either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss in September

Former chancellor takes leaf out of rival Liz Truss’s book but his plans may be too good to be true

Asked who would be in charge while Johnson was away, the Prime Minister's official spokesman said: "It will be the standard pattern."

RETAILERS are charging UK shoppers more than EU consumers for the same products, new research has found.

It’s hard to read Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss. They don’t tell us much at the hustings. They can’t. If you tell someone the truth, you might alienate them. What we are left with is the candidates, and what they are prepared to tell us, unless you are willing to…