The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Embarrassingly, the culture secretary thinks the Midlands need sport in order to make a mark

Rishi Sunak said rival Liz Truss’s plans for vast tax cuts would “put fuel on the fire” of the inflation problem and create a “sugar rush boom”.Veteran political journalist Andrew Neil challenged the Tory leadership hopeful over his plans to tighten fiscal policy in a time when “the global economy…

Confederation of British Industry (CBI) director-general Tony Danker has said Britain needs to develop new strategic alliances

The ruling from the ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel case and Rishi Sunak’s growing desperation are featured among the front pages.

Received wisdom posits that TV debates are a democratic necessity, allowing the public to give prospective leaders a proper once-over. This is nonsense, writes Louis Chilton – Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss’s televised bickering is the latest in a long line of pointless vanity exercises

We look at the shapeshifting Tory leadership candidate who loves to promote Thatcher comparisons

Tory leadership contender said she would “break down barriers” to support people keen to get on the housing ladder

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‘There is no time to design something else,’ ex-chancellor tells Andrew Neil