Politics
The veil slips as Dorries reveals who really runs the Tory Party
It comes as pressure mounts on Liz Truss to call a General Election to end the chaos in parliament.
Watch: Mick Lynch runs rings around Tory MPs at select committee hearing
“Our members are fully committed to the industrial action – they don’t want their conditions ripped up.”
Reports of ‘devastating collapse in confidence’ in Liz Truss among her own MPs
The BBC's Nicholas Watt says a dinner attended by multiple Tory MPs was dominated by one topic: how to get rid of the PM.
FT editor-at-large has one word for Rees-Mogg’s budget claims
"At the end of day, the spark that lit this fire was very much the budget announcement.”
Reaction as Liz Truss’s attempts to win over mutinous MPs at 1922 Committee spectacularly fails
"With each tough question she looked like she’s had the wind knocked out of her, 31st Oct could finish her off on the basis of the reception she got in that room."
Liz Truss says a General Election is the last thing the country needs
It comes as a petition calling for the government to go to the polls to "end the chaos" is set to be debated in parliament on Monday.
Watch: Labour backbenches erupt as Truss says she’s ‘genuinely unclear’
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Labour plans ‘would cause blackouts and poverty’ – climate minister
Graham Stuart said the UK would still be burning oil and gas in 2050 and domestic production was the greenest way to do this.
Liz Truss rattled during bruising PMQs
Starmer said voters will not forgive the Conservative Party if it continues to “defend” the madness of Liz Truss’s “kamikaze” mini-budget.