Liz Truss

PM wants to bring in more low-wage foreign workers, but faces Cabinet opposition and questions over whether her plan will boost the economy

The comic actor said he’d never join a club that would admit him. Will Liz Truss apply the same rule to Macron’s new European forum?

The mini-budget is one of the worst pieces of economic policy-making in history. Meet its fans

Kwasi Kwarteng's budget is so economically unsound that it makes you wonder if Liz Truss is secretly working for the Bring Back Boris campaign

Kwasi Kwarteng's mini budget has environmentalists seeing red as the Truss government alienates yet another sector

Keir Starmer and allies fear Tory ‘scorched earth’ diplomacy will leave them with a mountain to climb if they take power

The schoolboy errors in Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget have put the UK economy at risk and dealt the PM a self-inflicted blow from which she may not recover

The new prime minister and her husband are used to swankier food and drink than that served in Downing Street

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have turned Britain into a giant experiment to test out the riskiest of trickle-down fantasies

Many of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s plans are detailed in an economically illiterate pamphlet they published 10 years ago this month

Liz Truss has entered Number 10 wanting to change government. This time may be better spent on some reflection

Red tape continues to frustrate small businesses as the hunt for the sunlit uplands goes on

The lucrative UK/US trade deal is dead - so will it Liz Truss now press ahead with ripping up parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol?

Liz Truss's cabinet isn't as diverse as it seems, despite what the prime minister says

Comedian MITCH BENN on what advice Boris Johnson may have penned to Liz Truss as he left Downing Street

The EU has offered to scrap almost all border checks but the new PM may not be allowed to listen to logic

The two differing personalities will likely make for an interesting relationship

Matt Hancock tells MANDRAKE not to count Kemi Badenoch out

There are better places to generate electricity than farmland, writes one reader

Keir Starmer's performance during this coming winter of discontent will decide whether he becomes prime minister in the future

Liz Truss looks set to follow in the footsteps of her predecessor and play to the crowd rather than take her responsibilities seriously

A willingness to adapt rather than stick with the ways of the past would be beneficial for the contemporary political environment

Economic turmoil will test Britain's new prime minister

Liz Truss may have risen to the top by projecting herself as some kind of Margaret Thatcher tribute, but Thatcher's first cabinet contained serious political names. Truss's does not

Guided by a right-wing Brexiteer with an outdated view of the economy, Liz Truss is setting the UK on a disastrous course

In choosing Truss to succeed Johnson, it is pretty clear the Tory Party has not learned much from the reasons he turned out to be such a spectacular failure

There has been more nuanced conversation on reality television than during the Tory leadership race, says one reader

The heavy favourite to be Britain’s next PM gives no indication of having the answers to the country’s problems – chiefly on fairness of our society

May was inept, Chamberlain an appeaser. Callaghan was diverted and Cameron was frivolous. Yet none were as bad as Boris Johnson