The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Grant Shapps is tipped to take over the role, according to reports in the Guardian

It is unclear how ministers intend to speed up a number of critical transport upgrades across the region, having promised to do so in last month's mini-budget

Resort to fateful phrase rarely ends well

John Baron, an MP for Basildon and Billericay referenced the saga while questioning Liz Truss during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday

Rightwinger is replaced by Grant Shapps in further serious blow to Truss’s authority

PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka warned that disputes over pay and working conditions could run into the Spring and said people were fed up of the Government's 'callous, brutal dismissal' of workers' concerns

Prime minister entitled to quarter of her salary as severance pay with no minimum time limit

A growing number of Conservatives have demanded she quits ahead of a motion being seen as a ‘confidence’ vote in the PM.

Prime Minister’s Questions isn’t really about scrutiny. The thankless but important task of holding the government to account takes place in dusty committee rooms and low-key debates. Instead, PMQs is about theatre, boosting the morale of your backbenchers, testing out attack lines and ensuring the prime minister is on top…