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OPINION - These mortgage rises spell one thing for the Tory party: doom

Until recently, if you asked me who would win the next general election, even after partygate, I would have reluctantly said the Tories — as they are hardwired to pursue, acquire and retain power.

Evening Standard

Cabinet Secretary: Attempts made to weaponise Gray case to attack civil service

Simon Case criticised attacks on the civil service and disparaged the ‘dehumanising’ language of ‘the blob’.

The Independent UK

Nadine Dorries faces investigation for ‘threatening’ civil servants over blocked peerage

Cabinet secretary reports Boris loyalist to chief whip and Commons Speaker after ‘forceful communications’

The Independent UK

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Tory mayoral hopeful posted ‘hateful’ message about TV star on Twitter, says rival

Accusations fly in ‘blue on blue’ attacks during radio hustings debate

Evening Standard

Southport Labour shortlist to rival Tory seat contains no local candidates

Three names listed but concerns have been raised about a lack of local figures and speed of process

Liverpool Echo

UK Government snubs Scottish Parliament amid accusations of 'contempt'

THE UK Government has been accused of treating Scotland’s parliament with “increasing contempt” after repeatedly snubbing one of its key…

The National (Scotland)

Peer who fled Nazis as a child vows to fight on against cruel Tory migration bill

Lord Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK when he was just six, branded Suella Braverman's controversial Illegal Migration Bill "hostile" to asylum seekers and said peers would continue pushing to improve it

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Racism and the Labour party: investigation after investigation feeds an endless factional loop

Before becoming leader of the Labour party in September 2015, Jeremy Corbyn will have anticipated a fractious experience ahead. Labour leaders have almost always presided over party divisions, many of which have spilled over into crisis. For Corbyn, who swept to victory on the back of overwhelming support of the…

The Conversation

Carol Vorderman says 'I must be doing something right' as she adds 'I'll let my record do the talking'

The former Countdown star is clearly proud of how far she has come

Wales Online

Bristol mayor says running for MP seat ‘won’t take away from day job’

Standing for parliament is widely considered to be hugely time-consuming

Bristol Post

Scottish Government ordered to hand over analysis of EU timescale

The information commissioner has forced ministers to divulge any analysis by 17 August

Insider UK

Health Secretary gives virtual reality tours of 40 new hospitals as they don't exist

Labour's Wes Streeting said patients need a government in the 'real world' as Steve Barclay resorted to hosting reality tours of hospitals that haven't been built

Daily Mirror

Shambolic Tory government has no answers to drug addiction problem

Conservative thinking has barely evolved since the Misuse of Drugs Act was passed by Ted Heath’s government in 1971.

Daily Record

Several senior Tory MPs rebel on Illegal Migration Bill votes as further concessions urged

MPs held 18 votes in the Commons that saw several amendments made by the House of Lords overturned

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Senior Tory MPs rebel on Illegal Migration Bill votes as further concessions urged

MPs spent more than three-and-a-half hours holding 18 votes in the Commons that saw several amendments made by the House of Lords overturned.

The Guardian - UK

Jenrick stepped up to the dispatch box. Cometh the hour, cometh the halfwit

Honest Bob was all heart. It was actually compassionate to deport as many asylum seekers as possible

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on MPs’ interests: declare shareholdings affected by laws going through parliament

Editorial: The rules leave voters ignorant of the tension that almost certainly exists between shielding financial interests and advancing the public good

Liverpool Echo

Liverpool Council boss open to continued work with commissioners

Cllr Liam Robinson said Liverpool can lean on the 'expertise' of government appointed officials

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Rishi Sunak savagely mocked as Tory immigration plan shredded to pieces

Labour's shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock told MPs that the PM had given a jubilant 'victory jig' when small boat crossings fell slightly - only for them to skyrocket in the following weeks

The National (Scotland)

See the full list of MPs standing down ahead of the next Westminster election

A TOTAL of 72 serving MPs have so far announced that they will be standing down at the next election - over a year out from the ballot box.

Daily Record

Suella Braverman slams Scottish Government plan to decriminalise drugs at 'fiery' meeting

SNP ministers last week demanded an end to people being arrested and charged for possessing small amounts of banned substances.

Daily Record

SNP demands investigation into Scots Tory MP David Duguid over BP shareholding

Duguid, the MP for Banff and Buchan, previously criticised the idea of a windfall tax on energy companies without declaring his wife's £50,000 shares

Evening Standard

OPINION - Things can only get worse: why Labour doesn’t want an early election

Opposition parties are supposed to demand general elections, what with them being the only path to forming a government. Indeed, such is the power of this apparent truism that even Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour voted for an election in December 2019, despite the polls suggesting the party faced electoral annihilation.

The Independent UK

Government has ‘lost the confidence’ of NHS staff striking over pay, says Labour

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the ‘worst strikes in the history of the NHS were still to come’.

Daily Record

Scots face highest mortgage rates since global financial crisis

The average two-year fixed-rate residential mortgage is even higher than it was after Liz Truss' disastrous mini-budget.

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