Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email The new home secretary has been given a lengthy list of demands amid pressure to tackle a significant mountain of issues left by Priti Patel. Suella Braverman takes her post […] More
Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email In her first speech as prime minister Liz Truss has said she will help Britain “ride out the storm” with a “bold plan” for the economy, the energy crisis and […] More
Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Boris Johnson’s term as British leader was a mix of high drama and low disgrace. But he left office Tuesday with a casual shrug […] More
Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Liz Truss has appointed her close ally and friend Thérèse Coffey deputy prime minister as well as health secretary. Ms Coffey is the first female deputy prime minister in UK […] More
Few falls from political grace have been as abrupt and as vertiginous as that of Boris Johnson, ousted from 10 Downing Street little more than three years after his arrival.Elected on a wave of enthusiasm from both Conservative party members and MPs, Johnson initially seemed an unstoppable phenomenon – one of those rare politicians not only instantly recognisable to the public but also liked by large swathes of them, sparking enthusiasm among constituencies formerly unattainable to the Tories.Promising to take the UK to the fabled “sunlit uplands” of Brexit, he presented himself – and was accepted by many voters – as a “fresh start”, somehow unconnected to the years of austerity under David Cameron and the tortured agonies of Theresa May’s time in charge. More
Liz Truss was met with an awkward silence when she told an audience of Tories that her predecessor, Boris Johnson, was admired from “Kyiv to Carlisle”.The foreign secretary made the comments in a victory speech after she was announced as the winner of the Conservative Party leadership contest.She now replaces Mr Johnson as prime minister and will tomorrow visit the Queen, who will ask her to form a government. More
Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email An awful lot has been made of what passes for Liz Truss’s economic policy. Obviously she’s not sharing all the details with us (at least not for now), but one […] More
Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Liz Truss is planning to freeze all household energy bills at around £2,500 a year in one of her first acts as Britain’s new prime minister. The new Tory party […] More
