Kwasi Kwarteng

The British government has been called on to launch an investigation into claims that Liz Truss' phone was hacked when she was foreign secretary. The hackers are believed to have obtained "sensitive information".

In Britain, an opinion poll following the sacking of finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng showed seven in ten Brits did not think Prime Minister Liz Truss could win back the trust of voters.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss is holding her first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, after appointing a government diverse in race and gender and united in its support for the new leader's staunchly free-market views.

Truss will also face her political opponents for the first time as leader during the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session in the House of Commons.

Britain's new prime minister Liz Truss convenes her senior ministers for an inaugural cabinet meeting on Wednesday on her first full day in office, before she faces a barrage of questions in parliament.

Britain's government has claimed that the "end of coal is in sight" after 18 countries including Poland, Vietnam and Chile committed for the first time to phase out and not build or invest in new coal power.

The unprecedented jump in natural gas prices will force more British energy suppliers out of business and the industry needs to prepare for prolonged pain, energy officials and the business minister said on Wednesday.