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Sir Keir Starmer has called for an immediate general election following Liz Truss’s resignation – after just 45 days in power.
WATCH: The moment Truss resigns as prime minister
Liz Truss has had the worst start to her premiership than any other PM. And the last 48 hours in Westminster have been chaos.
Liz Truss has faced yet another day of chaos in Parliament and her chances of remaining in No 10 seem even more unlikely.
Jason Stein – a special adviser to the PM, has been suspended and will be investigated over breifings to a newspaper.
This week’s Prime Minister’s Questions was, as expected, a fiery face-off between the embattled PM and Keir Starmer.
Prime minister did not like doing media, it is claimed Prime minister did not like doing media, it is…
Truss’s PMQs comment at odds with Downing Street and Treasury’s refusal to commit to pledge Liz Truss has called off…
Why are you still here? – Starmer Labour leader says the only mandate the PM has ever had was built…
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Prime Minister Liz Truss has told her tight-wing Tory MPs that her tax U-turns were “painful”.
PM Liz Truss has insisted she will lead her party into the next general election – an extremely optimistic view for a prime minister clinging on.
The new chancellor Jeremy Hunt has given an emergency statement on the mini-budget in an effort to reassure the financial markets amid calls for the prime minister to resign.
The new chancellor will deliver parts of his medium-term fiscal plan later today, the Treasury has said.
Tories in crisis: Can Liz Truss save her job? Her political journey has been a strange one, from Liberal Democrat…
Liz Truss fails to acknowledge mistakes, blames market reaction The PM has delivered her speech on her disastrous mini-budget. Liz…
LIVE – PM press conference on mini-budget U-turn, chaos and crisis for Liz Truss and the markets
LIVE – Jeremy Hunt appointed Chancellor after Kwarteng sacked Jeremy Hunt has been appointed the new Chancellor following the sacking…
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng sacked Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has reportedly been sacked by PM Liz Truss following the backlash from…
Kwasi Kwarteng cuts US trip short and flies back to London for crisis talks The Metro says Kwasi Kwarteng has…
Mini-budget U-turn on the table, Chancellor flies home Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is cutting his trip to the US short to…
PM Liz Truss is under pressure from some senior Tory MPs to rethink tax cuts who want cuts to reassure the markets and stabilise the economy.
PMQs LVE: Liz Truss faces Keir Starmer in Prime Minister’s Questions – its set to be a tough session for the PM following the mini-budget and U-turns.
PM Liz Truss will face MPs on Wednesday at noon for her first PMQs since Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget caused chaos in the financial markets.