The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Eurosceptic Steve Baker backs Rishi Sunak for Tory leadership, saying Johnson was ‘bound to implode’

"It wouldn’t be surprising next year if the polling stays as it is, there’s not a single Conservative win in Wirral, just any seats at all"

Former chancellor says he would be best to lead Britain through ‘profound economic crisis’

Chancellor’s fiscal plan by Halloween would be too rushed, say officials

Economists soon saw through Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s plans for billions of unfunded tax cuts to benefit the rich

He, more than anyone else, more even than herself, is culpable for the catastrophe of the Truss premiership

Conservative rivals Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak held face-to-face talks late Saturday, reports said, as the feuding pair who once headed Britain's government were poised to battle for the leadership of their fractured ruling party. Former prime minister Johnson, who returned from a Caribbean holiday earlier in the day aiming…

The M.E.N's Tom George reports on the question

Speed of government collapse prompts a scramble to solve logistical problems and select candidates