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UK to cap domestic heating and electricity bills at £2,500 a year

Bills had been due to rise to £3,500 (€4,036) pounds a year from October, triple the cost of a year ago.

Green News

What does new UK PM Liz Truss plan to do for the climate?

Liz Truss comes into power as the UK faces the energy crisis - a problem deeply tied to the polluting fossil fuels the country uses to produce energy.

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New UK PM rules out snap election and windfall tax on energy firms

She also said she wanted to "fix" the agreement with the European Union covering post-Brexit trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.

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UK PM Liz Truss promises "immediate action" to tackle energy crisis

Liz Truss' first Prime Minister's Questions was met with scrutiny from opposition Labour leader, Keir Starmer.

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New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss picks her cabinet

Liz Truss spent her first hours in Downing Street sacking some of the old cabinet and bringing in her own team, with a predominance of those who backed her for the premiership.

United Kingdom

Liz Truss: New British PM says 'together we will weather the storm'

The new prime minister gave her first speech outside Downing Street, shortly after returning from Scotland where Queen Elizabeth asked her to form a new government, as per tradition.

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Liz Truss becomes UK's fourth new prime minister in six years

Liz Truss was formally appointed UK prime minister after an audience with the Queen at Balmoral Castle.

United Kingdom

'This is it folks': Boris bids farewell before meeting Queen to resign

In his farewell speech, the outgoing British prime minister said that his government had got Brexit done, delivered the fastest vaccine rollout in Europe, and given the country the economic strength to weather the energy crisis

United Kingdom

Truss to face many tough battles as she prepares for No. 10

Liz Truss faces uphill challenge amid cost of living and energy crises, and rumours that Boris Johnson could be considering a political comeback

Europe News

Liz Truss: EU stress Ukraine cooperation but Brexit still looms

Brussels said it hoped for "new beginnings" but made clear its position on Brexit "has not changed one iota."

United Kingdom

Liz Truss' journey from 'Remainer' to 'Brexiteer' in her own words

Truss, who on Monday was chosen as the UK's new prime minister, voted to stay in the EU in 2016 but has since undergone a remarkable transformation into an ardent backer of Brexit.

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What will the UK's new prime minister Liz Truss mean for Europe?

The UK's new leader has antagonised Brussels by spearheading the move to override the Brexit deal on Northern Ireland, and analysts fear relations will remain fractious.

United Kingdom

Liz Truss chosen to be the UK's next prime minister

She beat off competition from former finance minister Rishi Sunak to become the leader of the ruling Conservative Party

United Kingdom

Break with tradition as Queen stays in Scotland for new PM meeting

Queen Elizabeth II normally receives new prime ministers at Buckingham Palace in London. But this time, amid ongoing mobility issues, she will stay at her residence in Scotland.

United Kingdom

Emmanuel Macron is a 'tres bon buddy' of the UK, says Boris Johnson

The outgoing prime minister's comment came after Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said that the "jury's out" on Macron being a friend or foe of the United Kingdom.

United Kingdom

'The jury's out': Truss slammed over 'Macron, friend or foe?' reply

Britain's chief diplomat and favourite to become prime minister told a Conservative campaign event she will judge the French president "on deeds, not words".

France

Hundreds of UK-bound migrants rescued from sea in just four days

It suggests the UK's ambition of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda is not deterring migrants from trying to cross the English Channel.

United Kingdom

'Europe not cause of UK's problems', says UK's Liz Truss in old audio

In a leaked recording from some years ago. the pro-Brexit favourite to become prime minister said British workers, not migrants, were to blame for the UK's ills.

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Rivals to succeed Boris Johnson blasted for 'fantasy' economic plans

Prime ministerial contenders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, as well as the main opposition leader, have been criticised by a prominent economist over their ideas for tackling the cost-of-living crisis.

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UK PM race: SNP fury as Truss blasts Sturgeon as an 'attention seeker'

Scottish nationalists have described as "obnoxious" comments about Scotland's first minister by Liz Truss, favourite to become the next Tory leader and UK prime minister.