New PM expected to promise ‘immediate action to help people and businesses’ and end to fracking ban Liz Truss will finally present her long-awaited plans to tackle soaring energy bills on Thursday, with some Tory MPs conceding this is already a make or break moment for her entire premiership. The […]
Month: September 2022
Biden administration says undoing the protocol would not be ‘conducive’ to a trade deal between the UK and US The Biden administration has sent Liz Truss a message on her second day in office warning against “efforts to undo the Northern Ireland protocol”. The warning came from the lectern in […]
Former intelligence chiefs say national security officials are ‘shaking their heads at what damage might have been done’ Mar-a-Lago – the Palm Beach resort and residence where Donald Trump reportedly stored nuclear secrets among a trove of highly classified documents for 18 months since leaving the White House – is […]
Myles Sanderson went into ‘medical distress’ after his arrest, and later died in hospital, say police The fugitive wanted over a mass stabbing in Canada that killed 10 people and injured 18 has died in hospital after his arrest, police have confirmed, with sources saying his death was the result […]
Paul Urey was charged with ‘mercenary activities’ by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, who say he died of ‘stress’ The body of a British aid worker who was captured by Russian proxies in April has been handed to Ukraine with “possible signs of unspeakable torture”, according to the country’s foreign […]
New PM also pledges to urgently tackle energy crisis with plans to freeze bills at about £2,500 a year expected within days Liz Truss insisted the UK will “ride out the storm” of the worst cost of living crisis in a generation as she launched her premiership with a brutal […]
Former business secretary will be helped by close relationship with PM but takes role during historic economic storm During his stint as business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng clashed with Rishi Sunak over how best to oversee the UK economy. This week, he walks into the office of chancellor once held by […]
Braverman has pitched herself to the right of her predecessor – and is expected to move quickly to sideline ECHR Politics live – latest updates The issue of migration, which dominates the new home secretary’s in-tray, was at the forefront of Suella Braverman’s thoughts when she first arrived in parliament […]
Coffey, a close friend of new PM, faces daunting task as she becomes third health and social care secretary in two months Politics latest – live Thérèse Coffey is a beer, music and football-loving MP whose lively karaoke parties are the stuff of legend at Westminster. One regular attender has […]
Lifelong Londoner entered Commons in 2015 and has spent nearly a year directly working for new PM James Cleverly becomes foreign secretary after nearly two years as a junior minister in the department and a few weeks as education secretary, with the challenge of working for a new prime minister […]