Liz Truss will make a statement outside Number 10 Downing Street at 1.30pm amid a growing Tory revolt against her premiership.

Ms Truss will make the statement after holding lengthy crisis talks with Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee, inside No 10 at lunchtime.

Some 15 Tory MPs have now publicly called for Ms Truss to resign, with many on the Government backbenches now of the view that her position is “untenable”.
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