Liz Truss battles to maintain Cabinet discipline amid U-turns and confusion
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng appeared to be reversing one U-turn as the PM suggested she could one day cut the top rate of income tax.
Kwarteng blames pressure of Queen’s death for botched budget
“It was a high speed, high pressure environment and we could, as David Cameron used to say, have prepared the pitch a bit better.”
Open access operators: Much-needed competition or union-busting ‘don’t care’ services?
They promise to drive down costs, lower journey times and offer improved services, but is there a darker side to open access?
Sun columnist says £150k salary isn’t that much – these reactions suggest otherwise
"Earning over five times the average UK salary doesn't make you rich, you foolish peasants!"
Foodbank founder steps down as a Tory councillor after seeing ‘detrimental’ effect party was having on people
“I just couldn’t stay in the Conservative party. I’d heard people crying and listened to them panicking."
‘I’m doing this for my son’: Climate protester gives interview while being carried away by police
Hundreds of Just Stop Oil protesters staged a sit down protest on Waterloo Bridge in a "civil resistance" to "government inaction".
Mordaunt at odds with Truss over benefits payments
In a significant intervention, the Leader of the House of Commons backed increasing welfare payments to keep pace with soaring inflation.
FT brands Truss a ‘dangerous zealot’ in fiery critique
"These people are mad, bad and dangerous. They have to go."
Tory ex-ministers handed £410,000 in redundancy payments
Some of them only held their positions for a matter of weeks.