Liz Truss

Liz Truss at least has the chance to show our allies and enemies that they can expect seriousness in security, defence and diplomacy. But don't hold you breath

Videos of dancing politicians often bring in both criticism and amusement. But, holidaying during a national crisis is unforgivable

As she adds more fossil fuel drilling to her portfolio of environmental insults, Liz Truss, PM, is shaping up as a threat for a world facing climate disaster

If Liz Truss is investigating policies beginning with the letters "LT" - which ones should we be on the lookout for?

Whoever wins the Conservative leadership is playing catch-up with Boris Johnson on social media

Truss is preparing to form a cabinet filled with failures, opportunists and third-raters while we watch on helplessly

Salma al-Shehab signalled her support for women’s rights activists. Her sentence offers a glimpse into the reality of life under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Britain’s energy crisis is even harder to fix than you thought – and Truss and Sunak don’t even seem to be trying

Liz Truss is promising a bonfire of rules and regulations. But every other prime minister has tried that and failed – for good reason

The BBC is an important part of our national and cultural identity and I remain a defender of them. But, on occasion, they make doing so quite difficult

The Tory leadership candidates’ support for the Rwanda refugee policy is not only morally abhorrent, but also may violate international law

It's highly illogical, but Truss and Sunak appear to actually agree on something: Star Trek over Star Wars

Truss has been described as “a woman so dense that light bends around her”, shares one reader

When it comes to the economy, the Tory frontrunner is taking the worst possible advice from the worst possible advisers

The pair just make it up as they go along. So, come and join Liz and Rishi at their one-stop improv shop

Strangely, Truss's beloved idol, Margaret Thatcher, didn't put office layout in any leadership and election manifestos

Unfortunately, it's unlikely that Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will heed it

The British response to the invasion of Ukraine illustrates why the sickness in the Conservative party goes beyond Boris Johnson, writes one reader

While Liz Truss posed for photo ops, the UK's ambassador to Ukraine made the decision to stay at her post in Kyiv

After her disastrous diplomatic trip to Russia, the comedian casts his eye over potential replacements for the foreign secretary

Britain has seemed like a court jester on the world stage during the Ukraine crisis: prancing around and making a lot of noise to little effect. But Boris Johnson’s government has also been undermined abroad by its failure to crack down on the dirty Russian money already sloshing around in its system

For those human qualities - bravery, loyalty, integrity, intelligence, sacrifice - he demonstrated in defiance of a political system in which those same qualities are so conspicuously absent.