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This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer has told Liz Truss working people will be footing the bill for “vast” energy firm profits under her plans to tackle the energy crisis. At her first Prime Minister’s Questions, Ms Truss rejected Labour’s

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The UK can “ride out the storm”, Liz Truss has said as she became the country’s 56th prime minister. Giving her first speech as PM in Downing Street, Ms Truss said her three early priorities would be

Getty Images Elation, smiles, success, the crowning moment of a political career. Liz Truss has risen from the obscurity and loneliness of being an opposition councillor on a Labour-dominated local authority, to the biggest job of them all. There is more than a smidgen of ambition splashing around Westminster, and more than a few around

EPA Political turbulence has become the norm. I was born in 1980. I was in my late 20s before the country was governed by the fourth prime minister of my lifetime, Gordon Brown. On Monday, we’ll know the name of the next prime minister – the fourth in little over six years. Even the most

Reuters Many, many politicians want to become prime minister. It’s the top job, the chance to be the boss, the one politician in the country that is guaranteed a place in the history books and everyone’s living rooms on the telly. On Monday we’ll learn who is the new leader of the Conservative Party –

Reuters Voting has closed in the Conservative leadership contest to decide who will replace Boris Johnson as prime minister. The two contenders, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, will find out which of them has won the ballot of Tory members at 12.30 BST on Monday. The winner will be formally appointed prime minister on Tuesday

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged £700m for a new nuclear power plant on the Suffolk coast, with a call to “go nuclear and go large and go with Sizewell C”. In a speech at Sizewell, he

EPA The cost-of-living crisis is likely to be high on the agenda at the final Conservative leadership hustings on Wednesday evening. But as the pollsters’ favourite to be crowned party leader and prime minister next week, Liz Truss is under particular pressure to spell out her plans in detail – especially after cancelling her interview

Reuters The UK Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has arrived in the United States for talks on how to tackle the spiralling cost of living. During what could be his final week in the job, Mr Zahawi is meeting US banks and officials to seek “international solutions” to soaring costs. Labour has criticised the trip, saying he

PA Media Liz Truss has pulled out of a BBC One interview with Nick Robinson that was due to air on Tuesday evening. Ms Truss’ team said she could no longer spare the time for the one-on-one programme, the BBC said in a statement. Rishi Sunak, Ms Truss’ rival for the Conservative leadership, was interviewed

Getty Images Liz Truss has “ruled out” further direct support for everyone to help cover the cost of surging energy bills, sources close to her have told the BBC. Rishi Sunak, who is vying with her to become the next prime minister, has said the government “must provide some direct support to everyone”. But Ms

Getty Images Emmanuel Macron has warned of “serious problems” for France-UK relations after the favourite to be the next British prime minister refused to say if the French president was “friend or foe”. Mr Macron reacted to remarks made by Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who said the jury was out on the French leader. Mr

Reuters Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have been urged to specify what further help they would offer to households struggling with energy bills if they became PM. Labour have accused the Tory leadership candidates of having “almost nothing to say” about the huge spike in energy costs. Typical household energy bills are set to hit

Reuters Rishi Sunak has said the government gave too much power to scientists during Covid lockdowns – and was not honest about the potential downsides. The Tory leadership contender and former chancellor told the Spectator said ministers were banned from talking about the “trade-offs” involved. He also said it was “wrong to scare people” with

Downing Street Outgoing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said households across Europe have to endure the cost-of-living crisis to counter Russian aggression during a visit to Ukraine. Mr Johnson said the West must “stay the course” on Ukraine despite rising living costs, driven by the war. He said while energy bills were high “the

Getty Images A regular energy industry exercise aimed at preparing the UK for the possibility of a gas supply emergency has been scaled up despite the government downplaying the threat of shortages this winter. The annual drill will see potential scenarios – including rationing electricity – simulated over four days, rather than the usual two,