The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

The Conservatives will likely “take a pasting” at the general election, former Tory chancellor Philip Hammond conceded on Thursday.

Rishi Sunak has said sorry. This recantation didn't quite match the magnitude of Keith Joseph's 1974 apology for the Conservatives Party's role in the post-war consensus or Tony Blair's expression of regret over Britain's role during the Irish potato famine. But it is parliamentary recess and the pickings are slim.

The figures will offer some relief to Rishi Sunak and colleagues ahead of an election this year

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Her 49 days in power ended in catastrophe, yet the shortest serving prime minister in British history is back, launching a new conservative movement with global ambitions. You just can’t keep a bad politician down …

PM tells MPs: ‘I probably wouldn't tell you if I was though, would I?’

Catherine Mann says market pricing is helping the central bank do its work in bringing borrowing rates down

Conservative MPs are being asked to unite behind their leader but first the prime minister has to decide who he wants to be

The 49-day PM’s publishers seem to lack confidence in her upcoming book