The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Margaret Thatcher Looms Large in British P.M. Race

Both major candidates to replace Boris Johnson have branded themselves as heirs to the neoliberal icon’s ideological legacy.

Reason · Jul 21, 2022

Rishi Sunak steps up attack on Truss tax cuts as poll puts his rival well ahead

Former chancellor says opponent’s economic policies risk stoking inflation and pushing up interest rates

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2022

MPs claim Foreign Office ‘inaction’ on sanctioning Iranians for hostage-taking

Officials involved in arrest and intimidation of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe named in Commons

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2022

Tory leadership: Liz Truss’s tax cuts will damage public services and bust Treasury rules, economists warn

Race favourite’s economic credibility under fire – as she appears to be coasting to victory in vote by Tory members

The Independent UK · Jul 21, 2022

How Thatcherite are Tory leadership contenders Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss?

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are fighting it out to become the next Prime Minister in a six-week challenge to secure the backing of the Conservative party membership

Daily Mirror · Jul 21, 2022

The Guardian view on Tory leadership and democracy: a dangerous deficit

Editorial: The next prime minister will have a threadbare mandate and badly depleted authority

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2022

Northern Ireland secretary Shailesh Vara 'determined to avoid fresh Stormont elections'

He also rejected as "absolute and utter nonsense" reports that he once asked an official if he needed a passport to go to Derry

Belfast Live · Jul 21, 2022

Tory members back Liz Truss to become next Prime Minister

A poll of Conservative Party members put Liz Truss ahead of Rishi Sunak.

Chronicle Live · Jul 21, 2022

Conservative members in Northern Ireland on what they think of final two leadership contenders

One NI Conservative member described the leadership battle between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss as a "Hobson's choice"

Belfast Live · Jul 21, 2022

Liz Truss ambushed by badger cull protesters at Tory leadership hustings event

The Foreign Secretary oversaw the culling of the animals in a previous Cabinet role

Leeds Live · Jul 21, 2022