The Latest Breaking News from Downing Street

Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after days of chaos

It comes after Liz Truss met the senior Conservative responsible for establishing whether she commands the confidence of her MPs

Wales Online · Oct 20, 2022

Liz Truss resigns as PM after just 44 days in Downing Street

The embattled Prime Minister made the historic announcement after weeks of turmoil that have seen Brits' mortgage interest rates soaring and one of the biggest U-turns in political history

Daily Mirror · Oct 20, 2022

Liz Truss is meeting with chair of the 1922 Committee Sir Graham Brady

Sir Graham is the man with the power to see Liz Truss removed and replaced as leader

Wales Online · Oct 20, 2022

Grant Shapps appointed Home Secretary, Downing Street confirms

Grant Shapps has replaced Suella Braverman as Home Secretary

Chronicle Live · Oct 19, 2022

Suella Braverman resignation letter: what she said and totally meant

Outgoing home secretary sticks boot in and throws down gauntlet to embattled Liz Truss

The Guardian - UK · Oct 19, 2022

Liz Truss’s chief of staff still owns 10% of Lynton Crosby’s lobbying firm

Exclusive: Mark Fullbrook’s stake in CT Group while holding Downing Street role creates potential conflict of interest

The Guardian - UK · Oct 19, 2022

Bellway reveals drop in housing demand and warns of a potentially shrinking market after mini-Budget

CEO tells The Standard the min-Budget is “pretty much 100%” to blame for drop off in housing market demand

Evening Standard · Oct 18, 2022

‘Hunt’s running the show’: the day power drained away from Liz Truss

Truss’s decline from shiny new prime minister to leader in name only continues, the last 24 hours underlining just how weak she is

The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2022

‘A case of when, not if’ Tories oust Truss amid plotting

British Prime Minister Liz Truss is trying to rescue her premiership after the tax cut debacle caused a fiscal crisis and gave Labour a gargantuan polling lead over her Conservatives. But after that calamitous start, analysts doubt the Tory Party will keep Truss in power for long, even if it…

France 24 · Oct 17, 2022

Downing Street responds to Nicola Sturgeon's economic case for independence

DOWNING Street has issued a response to Nicola Sturgeon’s publication of a new paper on the economic case for Scottish independence.

The National (Scotland) · Oct 17, 2022