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Some MPs hoping PM can be replaced ‘within days’ – as talks on ‘coronation’ replacement continue

The ‘gallant lady’ with a sailor’s humour is hoping to replace Liz Truss but faces a tough ask in overcoming a wave of support for Rishi Sunak

In one of the biggest U-turns in political history, the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt scrapped almost all of the mini-Budget, which has plunged the economy into crisis

Mss Truss swerved a House of Commons grilling on her decision to sack Kwasi Kwarteng

Truss’s decline from shiny new prime minister to leader in name only continues, the last 24 hours underlining just how weak she is

British Prime Minister Liz Truss is trying to rescue her premiership after the tax cut debacle caused a fiscal crisis and gave Labour a gargantuan polling lead over her Conservatives. But after that calamitous start, analysts doubt the Tory Party will keep Truss in power for long, even if it…

New chancellor tells Commons there will be tax rises and spending cuts, as PM dodges urgent question

Librium Liz appeared for a brief, silent cameo in the Commons as her captors, Jeremy Hunt and Penny Mordaunt, held court

Liz Truss looked as nervous as someone who had been "physically punched" after she snuck into the House of Commons and sat silent in the chamber for 29 minutes as her colleague was grilled over the Government's "grotesque chaos"