Scottish Political Editor

RISHI Sunak will lose the Tory leadership race and Liz Truss will be the next Prime Minister, Ruth Davidson has said.

LIZ Truss’s tax cuts “won’t touch the sides” of the cost-of-living crisis for millions this winter, Rishi Sunak has said.

GORDON Brown has warned a “vacuum” at the top of the Government means it will soon be “too late” to help the poorest with their energy bills when they rise in October.

THE Governor of the Bank of England has denied the institution was too slow to act on inflation after the government said it had “hugely missed” its target.

RISHI Sunak has been caught on video bragging about diverting state funding away from “deprived urban areas” to more prosperous Tory shires.

THE former justice secretary Kenny MacAskill has been criticised after complaining the head of Scotland’s prosecution service is not openly backing an independence referendum.

THE deteriorating economic outlook has dominated the latest debate of the Tory leadership contest after dire forecasts from the Bank of England.

LIZ Truss has refused to apologise to Nicola Sturgeon for calling her an attention seeker.

SIR Keir Starmer has been found to have breached the MPs’ code of conduct by failing to register eight interests on time, including gifts from football teams and the sale of a plot of land.

RISHI Sunak has seized on the dire economic warnings from the Bank of England to accuse Liz Truss of potentially making the problems even worse.