It is telling, too, that it is Liz Truss who already suffered from public knowledge of this affair. In 2009, local Conservative Party members nearly managed to oust her from her seat upon learning of ...

The Spring Statement delivered this week by Rachel Reeves was almost as unpopular as Liz Truss’s disastrous “mini-Budget”, ...

Shadow chancellor pledges fiscal responsibility as he aims to restore public trust in his party’s economic policies ahead of ...

Ms Truss’s Budget was widely blamed for stoking market turmoil and hastening the end of her premiership. Then, 12% of the ...

A new leader hits the ground running, a bewildering array of policy ideas spilling out over their first fifty days in office.

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum ... open image in gallery Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng with Liz Truss at the Tory Party conference following his ...

Therefore, the chancellor imposes rules to avoid the financial markets hitting the UK in the way they did when former prime minister Liz Truss and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng introduced a “mini ...

The response to tomorrow’s Spring Statement will be made under the looming shadow of Truss’s economic crisis ... This is as it should be – politics is not so much a spectator sport as a backseat ...