The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

More than 1,100 people crossed the Channel from France to England in small boats at the weekend, new British figures show. Former foreign secretary Liz Truss, who takes over from Boris Johnson as Prime Minister on Tuesday, has promised to take a hardline against irregular migration.

Newly elected Conservative leader Liz Truss will officially become Britain's prime minister on Tuesday

With energy costs set to rocket, UK’s 5.5m small businesses hope new PM’s strategy will ease the pain

The French president gave his comments following Liz Truss’s selection as the new UK prime minister.

In today’s newsletter: As Truss travels to Balmoral to accept the prime ministership, a look at some of the must-read pieces about her policies, her opposition and her future at No 10

Sources close to the Conservative MP said she believed it was the right time to go

‘We will transform Britain into an aspiration nation’, Liz Truss said in her first speech as Prime Minister

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The new Tory leader tweets as @trussliz rather than @liztruss, so it was almost inevitable some would end up congratulating Liz Trussell