Former chancellor says he warned Truss she would be out in two months if she ‘carried on like this’ Kwasi Kwarteng has said he told Liz Truss to “slow down” and warned her she would “have two months” if she continued at speed with her radical mini-budget economic measures. In his first interview since being sacked as chancellor by his former ally, Kwarteng told TalkTV’s First Edition: “After the mini-budget we were going at breakneck

Leaders meet before British-Irish Council summit, in first attendance by a UK PM since Gordon Brown Rishi Sunak has said he wants to deepen ties between the UK and Ireland after a “very positive” first face-to-face meeting with the taoiseach, Micheál Martin, before the British-Irish Council summit in Blackpool. He said he was pleased with progress on the Northern Ireland protocol dispute and he was determined to end the impasse over the Stormont assembly. Continue

Exclusive: armed forces personnel to get less than a week’s training under plan approved by Suella Braverman Hundreds of military personnel will be trained to work as Border Force guards so they can fill in for striking workers under plans signed off by Suella Braverman. Members of the armed services could be asked to work on the frontline at ports and airports by the end of this month, Whitehall sources said. Defence sources said they

The equalities watchdog was accused of being partisan in a review of Scotland’s attempts to improve gender balance on public boards The Equality and Human Rights Commission is a referee rather than a side-taker in the debate on whether transgender rights affect women’s legal protections, Scotland’s highest court has heard. The equalities watchdog was making a submission on the second day of a judicial review brought by the gender-critical campaign group For Women Scotland, which

Exclusive: Business secretary acts after Elon Musk announces sudden job cuts including staff at British operations The business secretary, Grant Shapps, has written to Twitter to ensure it is complying with UK law after the US company’s new owner, Elon Musk, announced that hundreds of its British staff would be fired. Musk took control of the social media platform at the end of October, and within days launched deep job cuts, with as many as

Exclusive: Leader says easing planning curbs would be part of its plan to tap economic potential of wind power A Labour government would rip up the planning rules restricting the expansion of onshore windfarms as part of a plan to make the UK a clean energy superpower, the Guardian has learned. Keir Starmer admitted that he would have to “persuade some communities to get on board” after Rishi Sunak reinstated a ban, dropped by Liz