The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Tory leadership contenders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak spent an hour trashing each other's records in a bad-tempered TV debate, where Mr Sunak was accused of 'mansplaining'

‘There was genuine frustration at the tone which Rishi struck....the way he kept interrupting Liz when she was trying to set out her side of the story’

The former chancellor claimed there was 'nothing Conservative' about Ms Truss's approach

In today’s newsletter: Sunak interrupted, Truss called him finely dressed – and the climate was all but ignored. Will anyone have changed their minds?

The Foreign Secretary said Mr Johnson ‘needs a well-earned break’.

Candidates mocked each other’s clothing in fiery debate

Under compulsory preferential voting, all formal votes must eventually preference one of the major parties over the other. The electoral commission has released preference flow information for all minor parties, This means we can tell, for example, how many Greens voters preferred Labor and how many the Coalition.

The two candidates vying to replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister clash over the economy, amid warnings their in-fighting could condemn the Conservative Party to years in the political wilderness.

Tax cuts and recession fears among the front page topics as the fight between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss intensifies in first televised debate

Angela Rayner says plans will ‘inflame industrial relations at a critical time’

Former chancellor Mr Sunak claimed there is ‘nothing Conservative’ about Ms Truss’s approach.