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 On Monday, Liz Truss was elected Tory leader – and on Tuesday she’ll become prime minister. The arrangements for the day are somewhat more complicated than usual, and will involve […] 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 Priti Patel has quit as home secretary with a call for Liz Truss to back “all aspects” of her immigration policies, on the day judges began reviewing the legality of […] More
Twelve Conservative MPs disgruntled with the candidates for the party leadership are planning to submit letters of no confidence in the new prime minister as early as this week, it has been reported. In defiance of the widely-considered frontrunner Liz Truss, MPs are planning to submit letters to Sir Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 committee, to signal their intentions of challenging the new prime minister, according to the Sunday Mirror. The newspaper reports the plotting MPs want a leadership vote by Christmas to bring Boris Johnson back as leader. 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 Priti Patel told opposition MPs to “shut up” in angry exchanges in the Commons as she set out her legacy as home secretary. The cabinet minister – widely expected to […] 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 As Liz Truss enters Downing Street after a bruising leadership contest for the Conservatives, she faces an in-tray bulging with pressing issues. The leadership contest was littered with vague policy […] More
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email MoneySavingExpert Martin Lewis has said he cannot think of “anything worse” than serving in Liz Truss’s cabinet as he warned the new prime minister she was entering Downing Street with the country in […] 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 Bookies have already opened betting on who will replace Liz Truss as the next leader of the Conservative Party. The former foreign secretary defeated rival Rishi Sunak by 81,326 votes […] 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 A trade war with the EU over the Northern Ireland Protocol is the “last thing” Britain needs during the cost of living crisis, a […] More
