The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

TORY leadership hopeful Liz Truss spent £500,000 of taxpayers’ cash in just three months using private government jets, according to reports.

The veteran Cardiff Business School professor first came to public prominence in 1981 in the depths of the recession triggered by Thatcher’s monetarist policies

Shailesh Vara said he is not afraid to take tough decisions and the option of cutting MLAs pay is ‘on the table’.

We have our final two candidates for the next Tory party leader - former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss.

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss will appear in several TV debates and go head to head at 12 hustings across the UK

The Foreign Secretary said if she becomes prime minister she would launch a review to allow households to be treated as single tax entities.

Former chancellor’s pitch is ‘fiscal responsibility’ – but he is under pressure to accelerate planned 1p cut off 20p rate

Those responsible for her imprisonment have still not been sanctioned, despite the Foreign Office knowing their identities, says Richard Ratcliffe

It can be hard sometimes to look past the personality quirks of the final two candidates to be Conservative Party leader and prime minister.

Differences over how to revive Britain's slow-growth, high-inflation economy could hardly be starker within the ruling Conservative Party as the two remaining contenders to become its new leader, and thereby prime minister, clash over tax.

Whoever wins this race will inherit the social and economic failings of the austerity era – all of which they voted for, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee