The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Under the slogan “#ChangeLDP”, Japan’s long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has elected Sanae Takaichi as its new leader. Pending a vote in the Diet’s lower house later this month, she is poised to become Japan’s next prime minister — and the first woman ever to hold the post.

Shadow chancellor will use his Tory conference speech to set plans to cut welfare spending, foreign aid and the Civil Service if his party wins the next election

RUSSELL Findlay has claimed the SNP’s “biggest failure is the economy” – mentioning the pro-independence party 23 times in his speech to the…

Sir John Curtice says the Conservative leader managed to make no impression on much of the public

Ed Miliband’s move to bring forward ban is gambit to stop would-be Reform voters from backing Nigel Farage’s pro-fracking party

Ed Miliband announces government will speed up plans to ban controversial practice supported by Nigel Farage

Greater Manchester mayor denied he would be ‘hopeless’ on the economy as he tried to play down speculation over his political ambitions

ASK ME ANYTHING: Chief political commentator John Rentoul answers your questions on Labour’s leadership woes, the rise of Reform, and what it means for Keir Starmer’s premiership

Chancellor tells party conference that higher borrowing to pay for public services risks serious damage to the economy

The red-on-red attack shows how far relations have deteriorated between Andy Burnham and Keir Starmer’s camp

His comments come after the PM compared the Greater Manchester mayor to Liz Truss