Adnan Hussain said on Friday he would step out of the ‘steering process’ for the new party

The chancellor has ditched plans to increase income tax, leading to fears she will not be able to create the buffer zone needed to protect the UK from economic shocks next year

Chancellor set to abandon income tax hike plan amid fears move could anger voters

PM declines to back his right hand man after ‘epic own goal’ over coup plot rumours

The prime minister did not take the chance to say he has full confidence in his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, when questioned by the Tory leader

Prime minister condemns briefings against health secretary by senior Downing Street aides overnight

Health secretary’s denial follows flurry of briefings from Number 10 in which allies of prime minister came out fighting on his behalf amid fears his job could be under threat after Budget

Health secretary says Labour MPs who claim PM faces coup have been ‘watching too much “Celebrity Traitors”’

The prime minister said his government will be ‘taking a number of measures’ to tackle child poverty

The Liberal Democrat leader said Gibb, who was appointed to the board by Boris Johnson, should have ‘no role’ in appointing the new director general

The chancellor said it was important not to let the ‘costs to our economy in allowing child poverty to go unchecked’