The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

The chancellor is expected to change how the government assesses spending plans to benefit the north and Midlands

His tax-and-spending maths may be bonkers, but while Labour dithers, the Reform leader knows just what his voters want, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

COMMENT: The prime minister looks as if he is being pushed around by Reform, but he is taking the fight to them on issues that matter to the voters, writes John Rentoul

Nigel Farage’s tax and spend plans are ‘Liz Truss all over again’, prime minister tells workers in Merseyside

The Prime Minister has been scathing in his criticism of the Reform leader.

There was, obviously, about Nigel Farage’s launch of Reform’s programme for government, a Tinkerbell element. Clap, children, if you believe that a tax threshold starting at £20,000, no limits on child benefits and the restoration of the winter fuel allowance, can all be funded from scrapping hotels for asylum seekers,…

Prime minister says ‘you cannot trust Farage with your future and your jobs’ as he gives speech in north-west England

Nigel Farage is ‘using your family finances as a gambling chip on his mad experiment’, prime minister will say

The Prime Minister is expected to urge the public to reject Reform UK’s calls to use ‘family finances’ as a gambling chip on ‘unfunded’ tax cuts

The prime minister’s intervention came as a stunning new poll saw Reform’s lead over Labour grow to nine points in what a leading pollster describes as ‘an uncontrollable political earthquake’

Nigel Farage has pledged billions of pounds of tax cuts and painted Reform UK as the true ‘party of workers’