A cabinet minister has told Sky News they believe Boris Johnson could secure the 100 nominations he needs from Conservative MPs to stand in the Tory leadership race.

In the end, Liz Truss lasted less than seven weeks in the job. Never the first choice of Tory MPs, the decisions she made as prime minister finished her off at record pace. 

A workforce the size of the population of Newcastle needs to be recruited urgently to ease the "gridlocked" health and care system and to prevent serious harm to patients, the country's care regulator has warned.

The latest official data on the state of the public finances and consumer spending makes for grim reading as the country awaits its next leader.

British and US intelligence says the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is on the ground in Crimea, supporting Russian drone attacks on Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been shown firing a sniper rifle while visiting a training facility for reservists.

Almost six in ten UK adults are struggling to keep up with their bills, according to new research from the City regulator.

The value of energy discounts given to households that cut their peak time electricity used will be raised, the National Grid ESO has said, in a bid to turn homes into "individual power plants".

Twitter has told its staff there are no plans for mass redundancies in the wake of a US press report that Elon Musk wants to make 75% of the workforce redundant when his $44bn (£38.4bn) takeover is completed.

The teenage chess player at the centre of an alleged cheating scandal, has launched a $100m (£89m) libel suit against the world champion and online platform Chess.com.