The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

The Tory PM hopeful spoke to GB News in the former ‘red wall’ seat of Leigh

The Tory leadership contender signalled he would provide billions of pounds to support families struggling with the cost of living.

Editorial: ‘Blue-on-blue’ bickering makes a lively spectacle – but it gives a narrow, rightwing frame to bigger, broader issues

LIZ Truss “hates” her own policy promising a ban on LGBT conversion therapy, a key ally has suggested.

‘We want living wages, we want proper living wages,’ says Helen Somers.

Energy bosses are expected to meet with ministers on Thursday.

Beijing blames its actions on US House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan

Tory frontrunner also urged to keep sleaze investigation into outgoing PM open

'And she calls me an attention-seeker', said Nicola Sturgeon. 'That was the main topic of conversation she was interested in pursuing. And once we'd exhausted that it kind of dried up'

This Conservative leadership contest is getting weirder. It started out straightforwardly enough. Rishi Sunak was the MPs’ favourite (though at no stage did he command anything approaching majority support) with a pitch based on ‘sound money’ and tax cuts soon but not now.

The Government is being urged to take further action as prices are forecast to rocket in October, and again in January.