All news on the topic: Liz Truss

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Lewis Capaldi 'mixed up' with Liz Truss in hilarious billboard for Netflix show
Lewis Capaldi will feature in new documentary How I'm Feeling Now which is set to be released on Netflix next week and a billboard for the project has attracted quite a bit of attention
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Kwasi Kwarteng told fake foreign firm he could sort meeting with Boris Johnson
The Tory ex-chancellor who crashed the economy with his disastrous mini-Budget was secretly filmed by campaign group Led By Donkeys offering to work on the side for £10,000 a day
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Fury as 49-day PM Liz Truss 'gives peerages to people who plunged UK into chaos'
Liz Truss - who lasted just 49 days as PM after she tanked the economy - has nominated at least four new lifelong members of the House of Lords.
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Rishi Sunak's new Brexit deal formally signed off with EU despite Tory rebellion
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and the European Commission's Maros Sefcovic agreed to adopt the new Windsor Framework which is aimed at undoing some of Boris Johnson's botched deal
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Truss set to cash in by telling dinner guests about her disastrous stint as PM
The former Prime Minister is joining the lucrative after-dinner speaking circuit - but is unlikely to command the fees paid to her fellow ex-PM, Boris Johnson
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We are living real-life episode of Blackadder, says Baldrick star Tony Robinson
Actor feel it's impossible to do a news series of the history-based sitcom and set it in modern England because the show is 'playing out before our eyes'
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Sunak finally publishes tax return - sneaking it out during Partygate hearing
The multi-millioniare Tory leader first pledged to publish his tax return during his failed leadership campaign against Liz Truss in the summer of 2022 - and again after becoming PM.
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Rishi Sunak wins key Brexit vote - but suffers humilating Tory rebellion
Ex Prime Minister's Liz Truss and Boris Johnson announced they would rebel over the key vote on the Stormont brake on Wednesday alongside hardline Brexiteer MPs on the Tory benches.
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Tories could lose over 1,000 seats at May local elections, election experts say
Elections experts Collin Rallings and Michael Thrasher said Keir Starmer's Labour Party could scoop 700 seats if there is a swing of 6% from the Conservatives on 4 May.
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'Like all schemers, chisellers and scammers, Jeremy Hunt flattered to deceive'
To listen to the Chancellor you would be forgiven for thinking the Tories had successfully managed the economy for the last 13 years
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Hunt says UK won't enter recession this year - with inflation falling to 2.9%
The Tory Chancellor's 2023 Budget comes six months after the economic chaos inflicted on the country by 49-day PM Liz Truss's disastrous mini-Budget
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Jeremy Hunt once spent £44,000 of tax-payer cash on new toilet for his office
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who will today present the government's plans for the economy, was once branded 'outrageous' after it was revealed he had spent £44k of public money on a bathroom
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Who is Jeremy Hunt - Queen's fifth cousin who launched marmalade export firm
Jeremy Hunt will set out the Budget today - his second big financial statement since last October when he was appointed Chancellor to steady the ship following Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's disastrous mini-budget
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Jeremy Hunt's Budget 2023 predictions in full - what it means for you
At 12.30pm on Wednesday the Chancellor will deliver his first Budget in the Commons amid a backdrop of mass industrial action, sky-high inflation, and a cost-of-living crisis.
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Liz Truss backers should apologise for £7,000 mortgage hikes, says Sadiq Khan
Startling research by Labour found some mortgage holders are being forced to find an extra £642 every month in the wake of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's botched economic experiment
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Rishi Sunak pledges £5bn to help UK 'stand its ground' - HALF what was asked for
The PM Rishi Sunak is unveiling plans to increase the UK's defence budget by £5bn - but that's less than half what defence secretary Ben Wallace demanded
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt asked if he's 'ashamed' at UK's high taxes by Tory MP
The Chancellor faced questions from the ex-Cabinet minister Esther McVey and Tory backbencher Philip Davies. Next week he will unveil the Budget to MPs in the Commons.
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Ex-Navy chief calls on ministers to reverse Army cuts and build more warships
Lord West, who was First Sea Lord from 2002 to 2006, said the war raging in Ukraine should force ministers to ditch troop cuts.
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'I've been too busy to publish my tax return' Rishi Sunak claims
Speaking as he travelled to Paris for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, the Tory leader insisted his packed diary was to blame for the delay lift the lid on his vast wealth.
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'Richest PM in history' Rishi Sunak says he'll publish tax return 'shortly'
Weeks after winning the keys to No10 after Liz Trus's short-lived Government collapsed, the PM said at in November he stood by the vow to lift the lid on his vast wealth
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Bitter Boris Johnson rails against new Brexit deal but admits public fed up
The former Prime Minister said he would find it difficult to support Rishi Sunak's new Windsor Framework as the Prime Minister desperately tries to avoid more Tory pyschodrama over Brexit
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Labour's election war chest boosted by £6m from private donors in 2022
The party said the cash injection from wealthy individuals is the highest in a non-general election year since 2008. The biggest individual gift - of £2million - came from Lord Sainsbury, figures show.
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'A once mighty Conservative broad church is increasingly UKIP-like warring sect'
Kevin Maguire examines the Conservative Party's downward spiral into chaotic infighting as the inept and splintered governing party descends into complete pandemonium
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'Turn spotlight off gruesome twosome Johnson and Truss sucking life out of UK'
Daily Mirror columnist Brian Reade on the actions of two former prime ministers who, he says, are so enslaved by their egos they just can't let go of their fight for power
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'Rishi Sunak delivered their medal - but broke his promise to nuclear veterans'
Nuclear veterans will get their long-awaited medal this summer - but Rishi Sunak still refuses to fulfil his promise to meet them, says Fleet Street Fox