The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

If Liz Truss is ousted, who could replace her as prime minister?

Five contenders who could succeed Truss as the Conservative party’s fifth leader since the Brexit vote in 2016

The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2022

How have the papers reacted to Liz Truss’s efforts to save her premiership?

Ms Truss sacked Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor and ditched a major chunk of her mini-budget on Friday in a desperate bid to stay in power.

The Independent UK · Oct 15, 2022

Jeremy Hunt may still have to find £40bn of cuts as chancellor, say experts

Kwarteng’s replacement is warned of inflation impact, crumbling services and financial ‘black hole’ that he has two weeks to fill

The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2022

What the papers say – October 15

The death of Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane features on many of the front pages.

The Independent UK · Oct 15, 2022

'Tories turned prosperous UK into international laughing stock - they ALL need to go'

While this paper will not mourn watching Liz Truss's premiership limp towards its inevitable end, it does mourn the damage she is doing - she should be forced from Downing Street as quickly as possible

Daily Mirror · Oct 14, 2022

Tory MPs ‘sending in no confidence letters’ to 1922 Committee in bid to oust Liz Truss

‘Poppadom plotters’ reportedly met to discuss how to force out the prime minister

The Independent UK · Oct 14, 2022

'Liz Truss signed her own death warrant in nonsensical 9 minute press conference'

It was not just having to U-turn on her signature policy of corporation tax cuts that sealed her fate. It was her complete inability to show any contrition for the damage she has inflicted on her country and her party

Daily Mirror · Oct 14, 2022

Liz Truss could be out of No 10 in DAYS as government implodes and Tories plot

Liz Truss is now desperately clinging to power as her own MPs attempt to find a replacement for the PM, who some describe has made the party a 'laughing stock'

Daily Mirror · Oct 14, 2022

Kwasi Kwarteng: only a desperate prime minister sacks a chancellor

Having seen her government’s popularity plummet just weeks after taking office, British prime minister Liz Truss has sacked her chancellor of the exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng in a bid to save herself. Kwarteng, widely seen as Truss’s right-hand man, was rushed back to London from New York for the occasion, where…

The Conversation · Oct 14, 2022

Kwasi Kwarteng's overnight dash home to get sack after deluded gamble led to misery

Kwasi Kwarteng had been chancellor for just 38 days, the second-shortest time ever spent in the post, as Liz Truss replaced him with Jeremy Hunt on a day rapidly descending into farce

Daily Mirror · Oct 14, 2022