Politics
Rees-Mogg calls for ‘freedom for chocolate oranges’ in red tape bonfire
The Business Secretary railed against rules preventing confectionary from being promoted near supermarket tills.
Benefit cuts don’t make sense if you want growth, says Iain Duncan Smith
The former Tory leader said the group “most likely to spend the money that you give them” are people on benefits.
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.”
‘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.
Nadine Dorries joins calls for a general election as petition nears half a million signatures
"If Liz wants a whole new mandate, she must take to the country"