This week’s Prime Minister’s Questions – catch up with everything you missed in this MUST WATCH session from the Commons – or follow along with TEXT blog updates.
Author: WTX News Editor
PMQs LIVE – Calls for general election as windfall tax top topic
PMQs LIVE – ‘Who’s going to pay’ – cost of living, windfall tax
She’s only two days into the top job and Liz Truss is set for a major moment today – her first PMQs.
Yesterday she announced her cabinet, where she ditched all Rishi Sunak supporters including Grant Shapps, Priti Patel and Dominic Raab. Her cabinet is made up of her allies and those right of the Tory party.
She’s only two days into the top job and Liz Truss is set for a major moment today – her first PMQs.
Liz Truss insisted the UK would “ride out the storm” of the worst cost of living crisis in a generation as she launched her premiership with a brutal cabinet clear-out, The Guardian reports.
Liz Truss told Britain it can “ride out the storm” as the country faces soaring energy bills, the Metro reports.
The Truss era has begun, the i says. But the paper says while the new PM pledges to grow the economy and freeze energy bills, economists say taxpayers or consumers will need to pay for the bailout.
The British public could be excused for being a “tad cynical” after Prime Minister Liz Truss made promises of a “brand new Britain”, the Daily Mirror reports.
“Frail” Queen Elizabeth greeted Liz Truss at Balmoral on Tuesday to appoint her as the country’s prime minister, The Sun reports.
Liz Truss “confidently” predicted Britain can “ride out the storm” with swift action to freeze energy bills as part of a massive cost-of-living rescue package, the Daily Express reports.
Wednesday’s front pages are dominated by the newly-appointed PM Liz Truss and her first day in office.
China experienced a devastating 6.6 magnitude earthquake on Monday, which claimed at least 74 lives.
Major roads leading to the epicentre of the earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan have started to reopen and traffic has resumed.
Police have confirmed the body found on Monday is that of missing heiress Eliza Fletcher.
Fletcher, 34, was a teacher in the area and the granddaughter of a local billionaire.
The Tennessee mother-of-two was abducted while jogging on Friday morning near the University of Memphis campus.
Kylian Mbappe and his manager at Paris Saint Germain, Christophe Galtier have sparked a debate in France over their response to a question about using private jets to travel to football games.
Kids in Wales have started to receive universal free school meals this week, but older children must wait.
Tens of thousands of businesses are at risk of collapsing if the government fails to help support them because of soaring energy bills, according to experts.
The newly-appointed prime minister Liz Truss has named her cabinet – and she’s heavily rewarded key allies with the top jobs.
LIVE: Liz Truss makes first Downing Street speech as new PM
Her political journey has been a strange one, from liberal Democrat to Conservative, Remainer to Brexit enthusiast, it’s hard to imagine Liz Truss walking through the famous black door of No 10.
Germans bring back Cold War era ‘Monday protests’ amid cost of living crisis Thousands of people on Monday have taken to the streets in Leipzig, the most populous city in the German state of Saxony, to protest against the rising cost of living amid soaring inflation in the European country.
Liz Truss, the newly-appointed UK prime minister, has had an interesting political rise – from Liberal Democrat to Tory, from Remainer to Brexiteer.
Who is Liz Truss? And what comes next?
The front page leads with Liz Truss being announced the winner of the Tory leadership race.
Metro leads with Liz Truss’s promise of a “bold plan” for energy. tax and the NHS.
The incoming Prime Minister could announce an energy bill freeze for homes and businesses that may last two years and cost up to £100 billion this week.
The fourth prime minister in six years faces a race against time to address the cost-of-living emergency, The Guardian says.
The Daily Mirror gives its take on the new prime minister, Liz Truss.
New Prime Minister, same old Tory disinterest and callous lack of concern, as Boris Johnson’s likely successor shows when she taunts people worried that their energy bills are going through the roof.