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Truss cost-of-living plan stalled until she gets ‘full support and advice’ as PM

Truss cost-of-living plan stalled until she gets ‘full support and advice’ as PM
Liz Truss’s camp says she will not finalise her plans for crucial cost-of-living support before receiving the “full support and advice” only available to the government of the day.

Boris Johnson will try to make comeback as PM, Rory Stewart says

Boris Johnson will try to make comeback as PM, predicts former MP

Liz Truss’s likely move into No 10 will bring no comfort to those waiting for credible solutions to a crisis that has become existential

opinion 'Liz Truss will soon be the new prime minister - God help us all'

Truss ‘favours targeted help over support for all’ to ease cost-of-living crisis

Truss ‘favours targeted help over support for all’ to ease cost-of-living crisis

Martin Lewis said that people 'desperately' need help after Ofgem announced the energy price cap would rise by 80%. Photos: PA

People will die this winter due to high energy prices – Martin Lewis

Energy price cap to rise an astonishing 80% to £3,549 from October 1

Energy price cap to rise an astonishing 80% to £3,549 from October 1

Criminal barristers in Wales and England have voted in favour of an all-out strike next month in a row with the UK government over jobs and pay.

Criminal barristers vote for all-out strike

Sharkey says UK government to blame for ‘sorry mess’ of sewage on our beaches

Sharkey says UK government to blame for ‘sorry mess’ of sewage on our beaches

Jacob Rees-Mogg says outrage over Truss calling UK workers lazy was 'confected'

Jacob Rees-Mogg says outrage over Truss calling UK workers lazy was 'confected'

Barristers balloted on escalating action to an all-out strike

Barristers balloted on escalating action to an all-out strike

Liz Truss criticises ‘too much talk of a recession’

Liz Truss criticises ‘too much talk of a recession’

Labour demands recall of UK Parliament to tackle soaring energy bills

Labour demands recall of UK Parliament to tackle soaring energy bills

Seventy charities and community organisations have signed an open letter to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak warning families on benefits face a £1,600 shortfall over the coming months, despite receiving £1,200 in the last UK government support package.

Charities' open letter plea to Tory leadership contenders to avert 'catastrophe'

Truss attacks devolved governments for playing 'political games'

Truss attacks devolved governments for playing 'political games'

Welsh Secretary switches sides to back Truss in race for No 10

Welsh Secretary switches sides to back Truss in race for No 10

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi says he is

UK economy shrinks amid recession predictions

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss before taking part in the BBC Tory leadership debate, Our Next Prime Minister

opinion 'Tories seem more interested in internal feuds than cost of living crisis'

The cap on energy bills could top a breathtaking £5,000 next year, according to the bleakest forecast yet for struggling households.

Energy price cap could hit £5,000 in direst forecast to date

Jeremy Corbyn spoke at an event in Edinburgh

Jeremy Corbyn tells Labour to present 'radical, hopeful alternative' to Tories

Raab: Emergency budget plans from Truss risk being Tory electoral 'suicide note'

Raab: Emergency budget plans from Truss risk being Tory electoral 'suicide note'

Boris Johnson was in Slovenia when the Bank of England warned of a recession. The UK government is rejecting calls for a Cobra civil contingencies committee to address the cost-of-living crisis.

UK government rejects call to summon Cobra meeting to tackle cost-of-living crisis

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak face mounting pressure to explain how they will help households with the spiralling cost of living and the “financial timebomb” due to explode in the autumn.

Truss and Sunak under pressure over plans to help households pay soaring bills

Poverty campaigners have demanded more action from the Tory leadership contenders

Analysis Poverty campaigners slam candidates as lack of focus on cost of living is revealed

Sir Keir Starmer. The commissioner found the breaches were ‘minor and/or inadvertent’, and that there was ‘no deliberate attempt to mislead’

Keir Starmer found to have breached MPs’ code of conduct eight times

Ofgem confirmed the energy price cap will be updated quarterly

Ofgem confirms price cap to be updated quarterly ahead of 'challenging winter'

Rishi Sunak’s plans to treat those who “vilify” Britain as extremists could criminalise supporters of Welsh and Scottish independence, a counter-terrorism expert has warned. Photo: PA

PREMIUM Rishi Sunak's extremism plans 'risk criminalising Welsh independence supporters'

Pictures, provided by English Constitution Party leader Graham Moore, show an event held in London in 2021, before the party was officially founded

PREMIUM Rally for English independence 'set to attract hundreds of people'

Liz Truss lambasted First Minister Mark Drakeford during a Tory hustings event in Cardiff.

Mark Drakeford is a ‘low energy Jeremy Corbyn’, Truss says

A man carries an English national flag as he walks along Westminster Bridge on January 31, 2020 - the day Brexit took effect

opinion 'How the ‘England as Britain’ fairytale damages all nations of the UK'

Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak is battling with Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to become the next prime minster.

Truss and Sunak to face off in hustings in crunch week of leadership race

Foreign Secretary and Tory leadership candidate, Liz Truss.

opinion 'Human hand grenade Truss would lead the Tories to their worst defeat since 1997'

Boris Johnson hinted at plans to return during his final speech at PMQs. Photo: PA

Boris Johnson 'telling No 10 staff he'll be prime minister again in a year'

Cars queue at the check-in at the Port of Dover in Kent as many families embark on getaways following the start of summer holidays. Delays are being blamed in Brexit.

'Way to go' before chaotic Brexit delays at Dover port are cleared, travellers warned

The UK will crack down further on so called 'illegal migration' in the coming months regardless of who enters Downing Street, after both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak pledged fresh measures to tighten British borders.

Sunak and Truss promise crackdown on so-called 'illegal migration'

How Thatcher is looming large over Tory leadership race

How Thatcher is looming large over Tory leadership race

Tory leadership race: Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak’s campaign continue

Sunak set for speech in Thatcher’s hometown as Truss promises EU ‘red tape bonfire’

Liz Truss appears to be attempting to burnish her supposed economic credentials. Photo: PA

opinion 'Liz Truss' declarations on economy almost laughable given her track record'

Unions have voiced their concerns over the giant Tata Steel Port Talbot plant.

Updated Fears for future of Tata's Welsh steel plants amid UK government support impasse

Boris Johnson could face a recall process if he is suspended by the Privileges Committee over the partygate scandal

Boris Johnson could face recall process if suspended by Privileges Committee

More than 550,000 passports were waiting to be dealt with at the end of June. It is still taking around 10 weeks to process. Composite image showing a British passport and the Passport Office in Newport. Original picture (left): Ethan Wilkinson via

Passport processing delays 'may not improve before the end of the year'

Boris Johnson declared “mission largely accomplished” before signing-off his final Prime Minister’s Questions by telling MPs: “Hasta la vista, baby.”

Boris Johnson declares ‘Hasta la vista, baby’ as he signs off from final PMQs

Boris Johnson declared “mission largely accomplished” before signing-off his final Prime Minister’s Questions by telling MPs: “Hasta la vista, baby.”

Boris Johnson declares ‘Hasta la vista, baby’ as he signs off from final PMQs

The Supreme Court rejected a bid by the UK to block Scotland’s case on the independence referendum being heard.

UK Government loses first major indyref battle in Supreme Court

Yr Egin - S4C's headquarters in Carmarthen. The broadcaster's chiefs have inspired an inquiry into Welsh broadcasting by MPs in Westminster.

PREMIUM MPs launch inquiry into Welsh public service broadcasting

RMT general secretary Mick Lynch

opinion 'In the war of ideas, the triumph of the left is now being televised'

The Conservative TV debate on Sky News has been cancelled. In a sign of the concern about the way the leadership race is being conducted, campaign frontrunner Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss confirmed they did not want to take part.

Tory TV debate cancelled as Mordaunt comes under fire from her boss

Simon Hart MP in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, awaiting the visit of Prince Charles on Thursday, July 7 - the day after his resignation. Photo: Gareth Davies Photography

Ex-Welsh secretary on how 'fracture of crucial trust' led to Johnson's downfall

Interim prime minister Boris Johnson and his former chancellor Rishi Sunak, who is in the running for the keys to No 10

Boris Johnson backing 'anyone but Rishi' for prime minister, reports say

Jade's Law: Friends and family of Jade Ward (pictured right) have been campaigning to change the law in her memory.

Date set for House of Commons debate on Jade's Law

Siân Doyle and Rhodri Williams, of S4C, gave evidence to the Welsh Affairs Committee in the House of Commons

PREMIUM How is S4C going to respect diversity?

As the race to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party picks up steam, many Tory MPs have publicly revealed who has their backing.

Who is backing whom? Tory MPs back their favourites

Eight out of the ten most popular programs on S4C are sports, in particular the Wales men's football team, according to the channel's Chief Executive. Photo: PA

PREMIUM How Wales' football team is attracting viewers to S4C

Dominic Cummings is the kompromat king.

OPINION 'The nastiest Tory contest yet is about to get even worse'

More than a third of children in Wales are living in poverty

More children in Newport are living in poverty than anywhere else in Wales