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Truss, heavily criticised for her economic agenda, to leave Downing Street just weeks after being appointed.

The Conservatives know the people’s verdict would be devastating. But they can’t be allowed to carry on in a state of perpetual chaos, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

It comes after Liz Truss met the senior Conservative responsible for establishing whether she commands the confidence of her MPs

Liz Truss has resigned as Prime Minister

Statement expected shortly after departures of top ministers and evaporation of political authority

In a night emblematic of Liz Truss’s chaotic premiership, confusion reigned in parliament as an opposition day motion on the contentious issue of fracking became a confidence vote in her leadership. Labour MPs reported seeing Conservatives being manhandled and “bullied” into the chamber by government whips – who reportedly attempted…

Senior Tory MPs have been accused of bullying members into voting against the bill

Conservative government again in turmoil after new PM’s disastrous start

PM has resigned as Tory leader after shortest ever reign in Downing Street.

How can we have gone, in less than a month, from a plan to spray billionaires with free money to dire warnings of deep public spending cuts? It is another one of those bewildering turns of events that is the new normal in British politics. There is a simple reason…

The Prime Minister is clinging on to power by her fingertips after Suella Braverman’s resignation and ugly, chaotic scenes during a Commons vote.