All news on the topic: Liz Truss

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Rishi Sunak and Steve Barclay accused of being 'on strike' from NHS crisis
Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting slammed Rishi Sunak and Steve Barclay for failing to negotiate with health unions and put an end to strikes - as ambulance workers and nurses both walked out today at the same time
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Liz Truss moans it's 'unfair' to blame her for economy but won't return to No10
Liz Truss has claimed it is 'unfair' for struggling families to blame her for spiralling mortgage rates - but in a small bit of good news, she said 'no' when asked if she would like to be PM again
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'The Tory end times should be more fun than this'
The government's remaining lifespan can be counted in days but no-one seems to have realised, says Fleet Street Fox. We're due a 1997-style boost of joy, but can Keir Starmer deliver it?
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Shameless Liz Truss blames Tories for not being right-wing enough after failure
Truss, who has now been an ex-PM over twice as long as the 49 days she was in the top job, moaned about her party’s failure to back her catastrophic mini-Budget plans for £47billion of unfunded tax cuts.
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'Warring hat-trick of Tory calamities are a tragedy for the British people'
Kevin Macguire looks at how Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak being at loggerheads is bad news for all of us as Truss tries to blame everyone but herself
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Changing how pharmacies work could free up 42 million GP appointments a year
The Company Chemists’ Association said the sector could “significantly increase access to primary care”, cut annual hospital readmissions by 65,000 and deliver 10m extra routine vaccinations each year.
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Boris Johnson's 40 hospital pledge falls flat - just 10 have planning permission
The pledge was a key plank of Boris Johnson's 2019 general election manifesto - and Rishi Sunak will be banking on progress ahead of an election
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All the best reaction to Liz Truss' 'deranged' political comeback
Liz Truss' bonkers 4,000-word comeback essay has prompted quite a lot of reaction this sunny, Sunday morning. Here's some of the best comments and funniest responses to her comeback bid
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Truss' Home Secretary says her plan 'clearly' wasn't right and ignored 'reality'
In a 4,000 word screed, Liz Truss blamed everyone from the "economic establishment" to Joe Biden for getting in the way of her bonkers plan for unfunded tax cuts - but even her own ministers say her plan was to blame
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Union boss accuses Tory Grant Shapps of 'lying' about NHS ambulance strike
Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said the idea that Ambulance workers didn't provide minimum cover while on strike is an "absolute, utter lie"
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Tory minister admits son is on pre-pay energy meter - because 'it's convenient'
Last night, Labour's Shadow Climate Secretary Ed Miliband branded Grant Shapps "do-nothing" over his response to the scandal
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Full list of everyone Liz Truss blames for her failure as PM
The disaster-prone ex-PM complained she was never given a "realistic chance" to implement her wild, uncosted tax-cutting rampage because a "powerful economic establishment" got in the way
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Mum forced to turn off heating and stuff son's clothes with hot water bottles
Abigail Tunstall has been hit by the 'trifecta' or rising food prices, mortgage rates and utility bills that has forced the disabled single mum to turn her heating off to be able to afford her house
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Nearly half of Tories want Election this year to sweep Rishi Sunak out of No10
A sensational Sunday Mirror poll today shows that 48% who declared themselves Conservative voters last time either strongly support or support going to the ballot box in 2023 That rises to 61% of all voters
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'Striking firefighters and ambulance workers get blamed for mess Tories caused'
This Government has tried so hard to contribute to the economy, jokes Mark Steel. Nadhim Zahawi went as far as having to pay a £1million penalty when he got caught not paying his tax
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Blackpool hit by earthquake that sounded like rattling train as furniture shakes
Residents in the seaside resort and nearby villages described seeing furniture shake and hearing a noise like a train as the town was hit by a tremor measuring 1.5 on the Richter scale
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David Tennant brands Tories ‘a team of f***wits’ in savage rant on Last Leg
Doctor Who star David Tennant didn't hold back when he spoke about the Conservative Party on Channel 4's Last Leg on Friday in an expletive-ridden rant
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Liz Truss has 'half a hope' she can make comeback and lead Tories in opposition
The ex-Prime Minister, ousted after just 50 days after a string of disasters, mis-steps and a mini-budget that threatened to crash the UK economy, thinks she has “lost the battle but this is a long game.”
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Rishi Sunak can't call an election as he knows he would lose, says Rachel Reeves
Labour's Rachel Reeves warned that Rishi Sunak is 'holding us back as a country' as he drowns in sleaze scandals - and says he lost to Liz Truss who 'in turn lost to a lettuce... He's not a winner this guy'
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Meet the Labour candidate hoping to oust Boris Johnson at the next election
Labour councillor Danny Beales, who grew up in Uxbridge and South Ruislip before being made homeless at the age of 14, is aiming to overturn Boris Johnson's 7,210 majority at the next election
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All the scandals and sackings from Rishi Sunak's first 100 days in No10
Rishi Sunak promised to end to the chaos and sleaze that plagued the Tories when he entered No10 last year. But after 100 days in office, the scandals are still swirling around the PM
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Dominic Raab could resign to avoid investigation into bullying, accusers fear
A Whitehall sleaze probe is looking into allegations of bullying made against the Deputy PM - but witnesses fear he'll quit when he's presented with the evidence against him
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Piers Morgan to face off with Rishi Sunak as PM agrees to TalkTV interview
Piers Morgan took to Twitter to announce he will soon be sitting down with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for a TalkTV interview
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Dominic Raab 'bullied staff like abusive husband' with some 'left suicidal'
Witnesses allege Dominic Raab would set them lists of endless rules that were ­impossible to keep and then 'belittle, demean and humiliate' them when they failed to deliver
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Neil Kinnock warned you about Tories 40 years ago - now he's warning you again
Neil Kinnock gave his famous 'I warn you' speech just days before Margaret Thatcher won the 1983 general election by a landslide, 40 years later, he says his prophetic words are now "so close to reality"