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 […]
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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 […]
Britain’s fourth Tory prime minister in six years begins race against time to deal with cost of living emergency on Tuesday Liz Truss will become Britain’s next prime minister on Tuesday and will immediately appoint a cabinet of loyalist MPs as her government begins a race against time to set […]
Liz Truss expected to make James Cleverly foreign secretary, Suella Braverman home secretary and Kwasi Kwarteng chancellor For the first time in Britain’s history, there will not be a white man in one of the four great offices of state. Prime minister-in-waiting Liz Truss, who beat Rishi Sunak in the […]
Putin aide says relations could go ‘from bad to worse’ as Ukrainian pundits welcome new ‘iron lady’ Liz Truss’s imminent arrival in Downing Street as British prime minister has been greeted with scorn and scarcely veiled condescension from the Kremlin, but an outpouring of praise in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin’s chief […]
Exclusive: Mark Fullbrook, who co-ran her leadership campaign, also helped win PPE contracts worth £680m for Australian manufacturer The co-director of Liz Truss’s campaign has been lobbying the UK government on behalf of Libya’s controversial parliament and a company that won the biggest PPE deal of the pandemic through the […]
Lake Manchar on verge of causing more flooding, says local official, as third of country already underwater Pakistan’s biggest lake is on the verge of bursting its banks after attempts by authorities to drain it in a controlled way failed, a senior local official has warned. In a last-ditch effort […]