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Conservative minister labels the government a ‘total farce’, amid warnings of fresh cabinet resignations

Price rise driven by soaring food costs, piling pressure on government finances

Departing minister fires broadside as pressure builds on PM

UK prime minister also faces challenge from Labour over resumption of fracking

Jeremy Hunt declines to confirm level of increase in pensions and benefits as food prices jump

After a decade of austerity, public services are not an easy target to cut

Government declines to repeat commitment to pensions guarantee as push for savings intensifies

Jeremy Hunt has buried the PM’s economic policies and reassured the markets

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UK chancellor to announce fiscal package on Monday

UK prime minister’s allies warn Tory ‘plotters’ they risk a fresh general election if they succeed in ousting her

US president calls UK prime minister’s reversal of policy in face of market turmoil ‘predictable’

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UK prime minister’s comment that spending will grow ‘less rapidly’ than planned implies cuts to government spending

Options for updated government spending plan discussed at meeting with PM

New chancellor says taxes must rise after prime minister Liz Truss failed to reassure markets