The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Suella Braverman resigns after mishandling documents with angry swipe at Liz Truss

The extraordinary development means Liz Truss has lost both her Chancellor and Home Secretary in a week - and plunges the Prime Minister into worse instability as she battles to survive

Daily Mirror · Oct 19, 2022

The Mancunian Way: What about a night tram?

Read the Mancunian Way newsletter for Wednesday, October 19, 2022.

Manchester Evening News · Oct 19, 2022

Suella Braverman departs as Home Secretary

Chaos continues to surround Liz Truss as she desperately tries to cling to power

Liverpool Echo · Oct 19, 2022

Strikes could run for 'months' if hundreds of thousands of workers back walkouts

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

Daily Mirror · Oct 19, 2022

Liz Truss in line for £18,000 ‘golden goodbye’ after resignation

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

The Independent UK · Oct 19, 2022

Embattled Truss makes last-minute cancellation of trip away from Westminster

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

The Independent UK · Oct 19, 2022

The weirdest PMQs since last Wednesday

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…

Evening Standard · Oct 19, 2022

Liz Truss's team 'used to lie that relatives had died so she wouldn't have to go on TV'

Kirsty Buchanan, who worked for Ms Truss when she was Justice Secretary, claimed advisors would "spend quite a lot of time killing off minor members of her family"

Daily Mirror · Oct 19, 2022

'Fighter' Truss mocked in parliament as UK PM defends her record

British Prime Minister Liz Truss's insistence that she would not quit after sparking a financial crisis was met with howls of laughter, incredulity and shouts of "resign, resign" as she spoke in the House of Commons on Wednesday.

Reuters · Oct 19, 2022

Keir Starmer's brutal first question to Liz Truss met with uproarious laughter in PMQs

The Labour leader fired questions at the PM

Nottingham Post · Oct 19, 2022