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Firm favourite to become PM has been busy drawing up her top team ahead of expected coronation

Newly elected Conservative leader Liz Truss will officially become Britain's prime minister on Tuesday

In today’s newsletter: As Truss travels to Balmoral to accept the prime ministership, a look at some of the must-read pieces about her policies, her opposition and her future at No 10

Truss team working up ‘bold’ loan scheme that could see bills kept at current levels

The new Tory leader will be formally invited by the Queen to form a government.

We should be worried, says Darren Lewis, with a new PM who's promising to take a harder line on immigration, and threatening to stoke up culture wars

Britain’s fourth Tory prime minister in six years begins race against time to deal with cost of living emergency on Tuesday

Liz Truss expected to make James Cleverly foreign secretary, Suella Braverman home secretary and Kwasi Kwarteng chancellor

Liz Truss will become Britain's next prime minister after winning a leadership race for the governing Conservative Party on Monday, vowing to press ahead with promised tax cuts and action to tackle a deepening energy and cost of living crisis. After weeks of an often bad-tempered and divisive leadership contest,…

The teenage Lib Dem turned Thatcher wannabe was crowned Boris Johnson's successor with 57% of the vote - and becomes your new Prime Minister

Thatcherism was disastrous 40 years ago, but the new prime minister seems intent on reviving it to meet the crises of 2022, says sociologist and political economist William Davies