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
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 average British worker is now earning less per week than 12 years ago when Conservative-led governments took power, after inflation is taken into account, according to new analysis. Shadow […] 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 Rents will be frozen in Scotland under emergency plans to tackle the cost of living crisis announced by the first minister Nicola Sturgeon. Legislation presented to parliament will also introduce […] More
Moment Liz Truss is announced as new Tory leader and next prime minister More
