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Pressure has even come from within the Conservative government

The new British government is off to a very rocky start – after stumbling through an economic and financial crisis of its own making.

Motorists should have benefited from a drop in wholesale prices, the RAC said

Blaming the pressure of the Queen’s funeral for the Conservatives’ Budget for the Rich is a grotesque bid by the Government to shift responsibility

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Liz Truss finds her party simmering with rebellion and discontent and badly lagging in national polls

While Radon Liz and Kamikwasi Kwarteng set quantum dates for fiscal steadiness, Suella Braverman was talking up a coup

Chancellor dismisses fears of rampant inflation – arguing state services are not like public who ‘buy shopping in Sainsbury’s’

From income tax to national insurance, here’s how Liz Truss’s ever-changing economic policies could affect you

Conservative disharmony shows no sign of abating as cabinet ministers fight over further potential U-turns

Under-fire Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng said the national mourning period added to pressure in the build-up to his Commons statement - which plunged the Conservatives’ poll ratings into freefall