Liz Truss culls cabinet on first day as loyalists and allies get top jobs

New PM also pledges to urgently tackle energy crisis with plans to freeze bills at about 2,500 a year expected within days

Liz Truss insisted the UK will ride out the storm" of the worst cost of living crisis in a generation as she launched her premiership with a brutal cabinet clear-out.

In her first address as prime minister in Downing Street, she pledged to be hands on" in urgently tackling the energy crisis with plans to freeze bills at about 2,500 a year expected within days, as her survival in No 10 depends on them.