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London (AFP) – Embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday faced more calls from her own party to step down after a key minister quit and lawmakers rebelled during "a day of extraordinary mayhem". Truss is being urged to resign just six weeks into office after a forced U-turn on disastrous tax cuts that caused a market meltdown during an already severe cost-of-living crisis. Right-wing broadsheet The Times reported the prime minister was "clinging to power", and cited a Truss supporter in her cabinet as saying: "It's terminal." Its tabloid sister paper The Sun ran the front page headline...

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Liz Truss is to resign as prime minister after just six weeks, Sky News understands. Her time in office has been dominated by market chaos prompted by the mini-budget that was announced by former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng last month. Developing...

There is "absolutely no sign" that Russia wants to reach a deal with Ukraine, and it could not be trusted even if one was on offer, Boris Johnson has told the Commons.

(CNN) — Britain's Conservatives just did what America's Republicans never dared to do. They toppled a wrecking ball right-wing populist leader who reeled from one self-created scandal to another and who was accused of flagrantly breaking the law, abusing power and building his political career on an edifice of lies. After weeks of clinging desperately to office, Boris Johnson finally resigned as the ruling Conservative Party's leader Thursday after a rebellion by his own lawmakers. The party will elect a new leader, who, according to the customs of Britain's parliamentary system, will become prime minister. America's Republican Party, however, never...

The embattled Briton was facing calls from within his own party to step down amid a string of controversies; more than 60 ministers and government aides quit over the last 48 hours, saying Johnson was unfit to serve as PM. “It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader and a new prime minister,” Johnson said outside 10 Downing Street Thursday morning. “The process of that should begin now. The timetable should be announced next week.” “I regret not to have been successful in those arguments and of course, it is...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid have resigned from government saying they no longer have confidence in Boris Johnson to lead the country. Mr Sunak said the public expected government to be conducted "properly, competently and seriously". Mr Javid echoed this in his resignation letter, saying the government was not "acting in the national interest". The resignations came minutes after PM sought to draw a line under a row about MP Chris Pincher, who is facing sexual misconduct allegations. Mr Johnson admitted he had made a "bad mistake" in appointing Mr Pincher to the role of deputy chief...

Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have started the war in Ukraine if he was a woman, according to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. "If Putin was a woman, which he obviously isn't, but if he were, I really don't think he would've embarked on a crazy, macho war of invasion and violence in the way that he has," Johnson told German broadcaster ZDF on Tuesday evening. Putin's invasion of Ukraine is "a perfect example of toxic masculinity," he said, calling for better education for girls around the world and for "more women in positions of power."