The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

In today’s newsletter: The new chancellor is primed to announce a package of cuts and tax rises to confront inflation – here’s what you need to know

Jeremy Hunt expected to deliver harsh package of tax rises and spending cuts to plug £60bn shortfall

The eagerly awaited autumn financial statement from UK prime minister Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt includes a key ingredient: a report from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on the predicted overall effects of the government’s policies on the economy. This is something the Liz Truss government studiously avoided…

Liz Truss’s short-lived government presided over an even shorter-lived economic experiment in “Trussonomics”. As investors responded to September’s mini-budget by demanding higher interest premiums to purchase UK debt, the government was unable to execute its plans. Truss was reduced to a helpless bystander as her new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, started…

The siren call of climate-burning expansion bewitches British politics. More of the same will emerge in the autumn statement, says Tim Jackson, professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey

The Scottish Government asked judges to decide whether the Bill relates to "reserved matters" - meaning it is outwith Holyrood's competence.

The former health secretary revealed what he said to the former Prime Minister after Liz Truss resignation

Tax rises, spending cuts and tightening of belts predicted ahead of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's statement

THE SNP have challenged the Tory government to deliver an inflation-busting increase in spending on the NHS and education to avoid a winter…