The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

After significant delay, the UK government has published draft guidance for schools in England on “gender questioning children”, from education secretary Gillian Keegan and women and equalities minister Kemi Badenoch.

Ralph Fiennes and David Tennant are among the stars playing Shakespeare’s Thane this year. Might the tragedy’s current popularity have something to do with the Tory government?

As the prime minister battles a civil war on the Tory back benches, his favourability with the public has slumped to a record low

Immigration is yet again front-page news and, as always, I watch the performative hot takes on the issue by people seeking to outdo each other on how “hardline” they can be. What madness. For those who are hard of thinking: we don’t have to be mean to deal with immigration.

An ally has gone and both wings of the Conservative party are in revolt over asylum. With a crucial vote coming, the stakes are very high

The former foreign secretary, 54, jetted into Rwanda this week in his new role as the man in charge of bringing down Britain's record immigration levels. Katie Strick charts his career so far

Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership has always dramatised a political paradox. On the one hand, his primary task is to reassure the public that the party it comprehensively rejected in 2019 — Labour’s worst result since 1935 — has changed and can be trusted to govern dependably and without ideological mania.

PM fuels speculation about Farage’s political comeback, as Reform UK highs new high in polls

Rory Stewart’s bridge-burning memoir; the rise and demise of Liz Truss; and what Trump’s aide saw at the White House