Liz Truss

There are now 11 Tories in the running for the top job following the resignation of Boris Johnson.

I can be trusted to deliver.” Mr Javid said his tax-cutting plans would cost around £39 billion (€46 billion) per year, but this did not include slashing fuel duty further in the short-term. “I think there has to be a reset and there has to be a new path. He told The sun: “A 10p cut to fuel duty is one of the quickest ways I’ll help with the cost of living but I’ll also deliver long-term tax cuts to ensure people have more money in their pocket.” The foreign secretary said she would “get the private sector growing faster than the public sector, with a long-term plan to bring down the size of the state and the tax burden”. The senior Cabinet minister, who is widely expected to be a front-runner in the already crowded race, promised to “start cutting taxes from day one” to help with the cost of living.

Liz Truss has pledged to reverse the controversial national insurance hike if made Tory leader, as she insisted she can be 'trusted to deliver.

I can be trusted to deliver.” Earlier, announcing her bid for the top job, Ms Mordaunt said the UK’s leadership “needs to become a little less about the leader and a lot more about the ship”. The Foreign Secretary said she would “get the private sector growing faster than the public sector, with a long-term plan to bring down the size of the state and the tax burden”. Ms Truss argued “it isn’t right to be putting up taxes now”, and as leader she would take “immediate action” to assist with living costs. Ms Truss has pledged to reverse the controversial national insurance hike if made Tory leader, as she insisted she can be “trusted to deliver”. The senior Cabinet minister, who is widely expected to be a front-runner in the already crowded race, promised to “start cutting taxes from day one” to help with the cost of living.

The Foreign Secretary, seen as one of the frontrunners, formally entered the contest with a bid to cut tax 'from day one'.

“I don’t think being retrospective is right. “I was clearly being smeared. Tom Tugendhat, the chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee who has never been a minister, pledged to cut taxes on jobs and fuel and painted his candidacy as a “clean start”. “And that’s why we need to put incentives in the economy, and the way to do that isn’t by raising tax,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. She told the Daily Telegraph she would “start cutting taxes from day one”, and would cut the National Insurance hike introduced in April, mirroring a pledge of rival Sajid Javid. “I think there’s a risk in a leadership contest of announcing tens of billions of pounds of unfunded tax cuts, much as though we would like to see those,” he told Times Radio.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss entered the race to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister on Monday, taking the number of candidates in an ...

"I expect we will narrow down the list of candidates very quickly." "I was clearly being smeared," he told Sky News on Monday. "I was being told that the Serious Fraud Office, that the National Crime Agency, that the HMRC (tax office) are looking into me. With many lawmakers unhappy with Johnson remaining in office until a successor is found, the party is likely to accelerate the election process.

Ms Truss kicked off her campaign with a video highlighting her work on trade deals and the controversial Northern Ireland Protocol Bill.

“I don’t think being retrospective is right. “I was clearly being smeared. Jeremy Hunt, who has been both health and foreign secretary, expressed a desire to “cut all taxes” in an interview with BBC Breakfast. “I think there’s a risk in a leadership contest of announcing tens of billions of pounds of unfunded tax cuts, much as though we would like to see those,” he told Times Radio. He conceded “there need to be spending reductions” to fund tax cuts, but refused to say which services would be hit. “And announcing fantasy tax cuts to help get through a leadership election, I think, is unwise.”

Truss said she would cut taxes and maintain a tough line against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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I became the first Labour MP for the area in 1997. Our political team and Westminster Correspondent are Yorkshire's eyes and ears in the corridors of power. Ms Truss was born in Oxford in 1975 but grew up in Leeds after her father got a job as a university professor in the city.

The Foreign Secretary has launched her bid to be the next leader of the Conservative party.

I became the first Labour MP for the area in 1997. In response to Mss Truss's comments, Mr Hamilton said: "The suggestion that Roundhay is a red wall area is frankly laughable and shows how out of touch Liz Truss and the Conservatives are when it comes to the north. A claim by the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss that Roundhay is in the "heart of the Red Wall" has been labelled "laughable".