In a speech, Mel Stride disowned Truss's £45bn package of tax cuts, which spooked financial markets and led to the former Tory PM's resignation in 2022.

Former prime minister Liz Truss was right to be radical, but the numbers need to "add up", the Conservative shadow chancellor has told Sky News. Sir Mel Stride said the 49-day prime minister was ...

The Conservative Party “will never” risk economic stability with unfunded tax cuts like those in Liz Truss ’ mini-budget, the shadow chancellor declared in a speech this morning. The address, ...

Stride apologised in a speech in London for the chaos unleashed by Truss’s ill-fated “mini” Budget in 2022 and pleaded for time to rebuild the party’s economic reputation.

Liz Truss lashes out as Tories apologise for her disastrous mini-budget Shadow chancellor Mel Stride vowed the Tories would ‘never again’ make offers they cannot afford as he warned his party ...

Liz Truss has lashed out at the Conservatives after the party formally apologised to the public for her disastrous so-called mini-budget. “My plan to turbocharge the economy and get Britain ...

Liz Truss has lashed out at the Conservatives after the party formally apologised to the public for her disastrous so-called mini-budget. The former prime minister said Tory shadow chancellor Sir Mel ...

This was, however, not an apology for the mess the Conservatives made of the country during 14 (arguably wasted) years in office – but for the month and half in which they were led by Truss.

el Stride wanted this job. Tory MPs believe he ran to be party leader to raise his profile and shore up his chances of getting this job. But he must have known what it was. If Rachel Reeves’ task – ...

Liz Truss should be barred from standing as a Conservative election candidate to show “that we get it”, a former minister has said. Sir Conor Burns, who served consecutively as a Northern Ireland and ...

Liz Truss is no longer an MP and, at a basic, strategic level, the Conservative leader should have made a great show of kicking her out the party by now.

Current US policy raises the possibility of a Liz Truss type event, where government interest rates rise significantly due to the prospect of an ever-increasing government debt burden.