Nineties band M People ‘livid’ song Moving On Up was used in Liz Truss’s Tory conference speech
M People founder Mike Pickering has said the band is "livid" that their song was used by Liz Truss on stage at...
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After only 28 days, Liz Truss has had the worst possible start – can she win back control?
In power for just 28 days - and for 10 of them politics was paused following the death of the...
Liz Truss vows to ‘get Britain through the tempest’ in keynote speech amid cabinet split as she is heckled
Liz Truss vowed to "get Britain through the tempest" and insisted "everyone will benefit" from the result of her economic...
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly urges ministers to keep policy views ‘around the cabinet table’ amid Conservative infighting
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has urged his ministerial colleagues to keep their views on government policy "around the cabinet table"...
After only 28 days, Liz Truss has had the worst possible start – can she win back control?
In power for just 28 days - and for 10 of them politics was paused following the death of the...
Liz Truss to close Tory conference by defending ‘new approach’ – after turbulent gathering
Liz Truss will wrap up the Conservative Party conference by defending her approach and pledging a "new Britain for the...
Home Secretary Suella Braverman attacks Tory MPs who ‘staged coup’ over 45p tax rate and ‘Benefit Street culture’ in Britain
Home Secretary Suella Braverman has attacked Tory MPs who she claims "staged a coup" against the prime minister over her...
Liz Truss says she has ‘absolutely no shame’ in performing tax cut U-turn
Liz Truss says she had "absolutely no shame" in performing a dramatic U-turn on the government's plan to scrap the...
Liz Truss refuses to commit to raising benefits in line with inflation despite growing pressure
Liz Truss has refused to commit to raising benefits in line with inflation, despite growing pressure from a cabinet minister...
Truss insists UK must have ‘courage of its convictions’ a day after tax U-turn – as govt hopes for calmer conference day
Liz Truss has said the UK must have "the courage of its convictions to put our nation on the path...
Kwasi Kwarteng: What a day! Chancellor admits fiscal plan caused ‘a little turbulence’ but vows to plough on with economic plan
The chancellor has admitted it has been a tough day after he was forced to U-turn on cutting income tax...
Tory conference is shrouded in gloom – has Liz Truss already sealed her own fate?
A little under four weeks as prime minister and it couldn't really have gone worse for Liz Truss.A mini-budget that...
Conservative Party chairman tells MPs they will lose whip if they vote against Kwarteng’s tax-cutting mini-budget
Conservative MPs will lose the party whip if they vote against Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's tax-cutting mini-budget, a senior Tory has...
Kwasi Kwarteng faces calls for inquiry after attending champagne party with hedge fund managers hours after delivering mini-budget
Kwasi Kwarteng is facing calls for an official inquiry following a report that he attended a private champagne reception with...
West Bromwich: Red wall town that turned blue split on Liz Truss ahead of Conservative conference
The fact that the Tory Party conference is happening only five miles away in Birmingham may have escaped many of...
Rocky start to Truss’s first Tory Party conference – as PM gives off toxic impression of her relationship with Kwarteng
As expected, Liz Truss and her ministers have turned up in a flinty, fighty mood, determined not to back down...
Devolved nations demand urgent meeting with chancellor as Tory top team doubles down on plan to cut spending
The devolved governments of the UK want an urgent meeting with Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to discuss immediate action to reverse...
A lesson from ‘Reaganomics’: The collision of theory and reality could prove fatal for PM Liz Truss and Tory party
In his book on the failure of Ronald Reagan's economic revolution, the US president's one-time guru David Stockman wrote that...
Liz Truss’s U-turn on 45p tax rate for highest earners will embolden her many critics in the Tory party
The first rule of U-turns, as a veteran former cabinet minister told me last week, is to do them quickly.Liz...
Truss and Kwarteng U-turn on plan for 45p tax rate for highest earners
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed that the government is axing plans to give the wealthiest 1% a tax cut following...
