10 Downing Street

Friday, 9 May, 2025

Liz Truss wishes Rishi Sunak “success” as she quits as UK’s shortest PM

On Tuesday, Outgoing UK Prime Minister Liz Truss delivered her farewell speech outside 10, Downing Street. She was with her husband Hugh O’Leary and children.

# World

The Brexit Threat

If relations between Boris Johnson and Whitehall are today less than cordial, the friction stems from the fact that most civil servants believe Brexit was a mistake and are now approaching it in terms of damage limitation.

Towards No. 10

Beyond the sniper attacks at the personal level must lie what they call the “deal-making” in the corridors and backrooms of Westminster.

Mr Johnson’s agenda

It is pretty obvious that Mr Johnson has, for the first time, been remarkably robust on the emotive issue ~ “I think our friends and partners need to understand that the money is going to be retained until such time as we have greater clarity about the way forward.”