The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Liz Truss meets Graham Brady as more Tory MPs call for Prime Minister to quit

Downing Street sources said the Prime Minister invited Brady, the powerful chairman of Committee of backbenchers, to No 10.

Daily Record · Oct 20, 2022

Timeline: Key moments in Liz Truss’s 45 days as prime minister

PM has resigned as Tory leader after shortest ever reign in Downing Street.

The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2022

Liz Truss meets with chair of 1922 committee Sir Graham Brady amid growing calls to quit

Most likely way prime minister will be forced out is if backbench ‘shop steward’ informs her the game is up

The Independent UK · 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

Liz Truss meets Graham Brady for crisis talks - just as No10 insist she'll survive to 2024

The leader of the backbench 1922 Committee was escorted into Downing Street for a surprise meeting with the PM - which even her spokesman didn't know about - after a dozen Tory MPs publicly called on her to quit

Daily Mirror · Oct 20, 2022

Andy Burnham says it's 'very hard to see' Liz Truss surviving and that Tories have 'forfeited the right to govern'

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, meanwhile, has angrily called for a general election 'now'

Manchester Evening News · Oct 20, 2022

Starmer lambasts Tories’ ‘pathetic squabbles’ and calls for general election

The Labour leader told the TUC congress the Government had reached a ‘a new chaotic low’.

The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2022

Liz Truss battling open revolt as number of Tory MPs demanding she goes doubles

The tally hit a dozen within a couple of hours after the Prime Minister oversaw a day of abject chaos.

The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2022

Keir Starmer pledges to create a role to support LGBT rights if he is PM

Sir Keir pledged to create an international LGBT+ rights envoy

Evening Standard · Oct 20, 2022

Three more Tory MPs call for Liz Truss to step down after day of chaos

Many believe PM should resign as dozens face potentially losing whip over fracking vote

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2022