Cost of Living: Live blog as PM Liz Truss begins first day in office while prices in Sheffield soar
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As prices surge in Sheffield and across the country, The Star is launching its own cost of living crisis campaign today (September 6) to highlight who needs help the most.
Join us as we bring you what is happening to Sheffield’s struggling businesses and families, as well as the latest from Ms Truss’ first day in No 10.
LIVE: All the latest from The Star’s new cost-of-living campaign as PM Liz Truss takes office
Key Events
- Liz Truss will take her post as Prime Minister today after winning the Conservative leadership race on Monday..
- Politicians, charities and organisations are calling for immediate action by Ms Truss to tackle the cost of living crisis.
- It comes as, today, The Star is launching its own cost-of-living campaign to highlight residents who have been left behind by the surge in prices.
- Join us today as we bring you all the latest on the Prime Minister’s first day in office while shining a light of who needs help the most.
Cost of living crisis: The Star's open letter to new Prime Minister calling for action to protect Sheffield
Act now before it is too late - The Star's open letter to new Prime Minister Liz Truss
'Don't let us freeze and don't let us starve this winter' - that is the stark message of a growing number of people to Britain's new Prime Minister as she starts her first full day in office today.
Our message to the new Prime Minister, Liz Truss
The Star is launching its Cost of Living campaign today and wants to see new Prime Minister Liz Truss take action. This includes:
- Stop the cost of energy from going above double the levels seen last winter, for both households and businesses;
- Help those on prepayment meters so they are no longer facing higher energy prices;
- Tell energy companies that they cannot cut off the supply to any homes this winter if people fall behind on their bills.
Cost of living crisis: This is how much bills will rise for ‘average’ Sheffield family next month
This is how much bills will rise for ‘average’ Sheffield family next month
The cost of household bills and mortgage payments for a typical family in Sheffield will hit £1,245 next month, analysis for The Star shows.
Boris Johnson calls his removal from office ‘a relay race’ where they ‘changed the rules half way through’ in leaving speech
Outoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave a speech outside No 10 this morning ahead of Liz Truss taking the post later today.
“This is it, folks,” said Mr Johnson, before confirming he would meet with the Queen this morning to step down.
He unhappily claimed he would be ‘handing the baton over’ in, what he called, “has unexpecctedly turned out to be a relay race - they changed the rules halfway through, but never mind that for now.”
Mr Johnson said the new prime minister will be supported by a ‘fantastic’ group of staff when they arrive in No 1.
He rattled off what he claims are his successes, including the vaccine rollout, giving weapons to Ukraine, and ‘gigabit internet’.
He also repeated the (currently untrue) claim the Government is on course to build 40 new hospitals by the end of the decade.
He said Conservatives “understand the vital symmtery between government action and free market capitalist private sector enterprise”, before referencing how families ‘are struggling’ and that “efforts to break up the union will never, ever succeed”.
He ended his speech by referring to himself as a spent rocket: “Let me say that I am now like one of those booster rockets that has fulfilled its function and I will now be gently reentering the atmosphere and splashing down invisibly in some remote and obscure corner of the Pacific.”
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