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The Guardian - UK
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Politics
Tom Ambrose and Andrew Sparrow

Tory leadership: Nadine Dorries steps down and returns to backbenches – as it happened

Liz Truss Geoffrey CliftonBrown 1922 Committee Boris Johnson Kwasi Kwarteng Laura Kuenssberg

Summary

Here is a round-up of today’s headlines:

  • Liz Truss will become Britain’s next prime minister on Tuesday and will immediately appoint a Cabinet of loyalist MPs as her government begins a race against time to set out plans to deal with the cost of living emergency. She will become Britain’s fourth Tory prime minister in six years after beating Rishi Sunak in the bitterly fought Conservative leadership contest launched after Tory MPs ousted Boris Johnson. The prime minister-elect is expected to announce plans for an energy price freeze on Thursday as she battles to navigate an overwhelming in-tray during the worst economic crisis in a generation.

  • Truss is weighing up plans to freeze energy bills until the next general election in 2024, according to the Daily Telegraph. The foreign secretary, who will become prime minister tomorrow, could announce energy bills support for households as soon as Thursday, it has been reported.

  • Priti Patel has confirmed her plan to resign as home secretary and return to the backbenches in a tweet. “I congratulate Liz Truss on being elected our new leader, and will give her my support as our new prime minister,” her letter to Boris Johnson said. “It is my choice to continue my public service to the country and the Witham constituency from the backbenches, once Liz formally assumes office and a new home secretary is appointed.”

  • Culture secretary Nadine Dorries is set to step down and return to the backbenches as Liz Truss becomes prime minister on Tuesday. Truss, the new leader of the Conservative party, is understood to have offered Dorries the opportunity to remain in the role, in a story first reported by Mail Plus.

  • Nigel Adams, who has served as minister of state without portfolio at the Cabinet Office since 2021, is the latest Tory to resign from the government following Liz Truss’s election as party leader. In a resignation letter to the outgoing prime minister Boris Johnson, Adams said “there has never been a dull moment” and that he is “honoured” to have Johnson as a friend.

  • Rishi Sunak will not be offered a role in Liz Truss’s cabinet, as her team put the final touches to job offers to be made on Tuesday afternoon. Kwasi Kwarteng, Truss’s closest cabinet ally, will become her chancellor and she is also expected to confirm the appointments of Suella Braverman as home secretary and James Cleverly as foreign secretary. Those appointments will mean that, for the first time, there will be no white men in the four great offices of state.

  • Sunak has vowed to carry on as an MP despite losing out in the Conservative leadership race, with supporters suggesting his better than expected performance means he could run again if Liz Truss loses the next general election. The Guardian understands he told party donors at an event the day before voting closed last week that he would remain in frontline politics regardless of the result.

  • The co-director of Liz Truss’s campaign has been lobbying the UK government on behalf of Libya’s controversial parliament and a company that won the biggest PPE deal of the pandemic through the VIP fast-track lane. Mark Fullbrook, an ally of Boris Johnson’s former strategist Lynton Crosby, is expected to enter Downing Street as Truss’s chief of staff after working on her campaign this summer.

  • French president Emmanuel Macron has congratulated Liz Truss on winning the battle to become the next UK prime minister, stating that “the British nation is our ally”. Truss told Tory members at a leadership hustings in Norwich in August that she was undecided as to whether the French leader was “friend or foe”.

  • The Conservative MP Christopher Chope has been tipped to join the committee investigating claims Boris Johnson misled parliament about his knowledge of Covid law-breaking parties, sources have told the Guardian. Chope would replace Laura Farris, who announced over the summer that she was stepping down from the body that scrutinises complaints about MPs’ behaviour.

That’s it from me, Tom Ambrose, for today. Thanks for following along on a busy day in Westminster. Goodbye for now.

Tomorrow's front pages

Here is a look at some of Tuesday’s front pages:

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