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Hunt replaces Kwarteng as Liz Truss plans humiliating U-turn

U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss fired Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng and replaced him with former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt as she prepared to make a humiliating U-turn on parts of her economic plan.

Tribune News Service

Headless murder victim ‘believed she had YouTube relationship with Charles’

Mee Kuen Chong, known as Deborah, was allegedly attacked in her north-west London home by churchgoing friend Jemma Mitchell, 38.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss appoints Jeremy Hunt as chancellor after sacking Kwarteng

Former leadership contender is back in cabinet as PM tries to reach out to other sections of Tory party

The Guardian - UK

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Could there be a general election this year?

Calls have been made for a snap general election following Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's sacking

Manchester Evening News

Who is the UK’s shortest-serving chancellor as Kwasi Kwarteng sacked after just 38 days

Mr Kwarteng joins unfortunate list of chancellors who didn’t last long in one of the most important jobs in government

The Independent UK

Who will be the next Chancellor after Kwasi Kwarteng sacked?

A number of names have been mentioned

Liverpool Echo

Who could Liz Truss choose to replace Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor?

Jeremy Hunt, Nadhim Zahawi and Sajid Javid under consideration

The Independent UK

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Liz Truss sacks Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor

Budget last month hit the pound and saw mortgage and government debt costs surge

The Independent UK

Emily Sheffield: Halloween has come early with this daily Government horror show

It seems odd to have chosen Halloween as the day to deliver your make-or-break fiscal statement. But that’s what our Chancellor has done. Imagine the memes and ghoulish references if the markets give it the thumbs-down. And there was already a graveyard feel among the Tory tribe. The mood is…

Evening Standard

Liz Truss’s Tories slump below 20% in bombshell poll

Staggering 34-point lead for Labour would deliver landslide for Keir Starmer

The Independent UK

Excruciating moment Tory confronted with old tweet slating Truss's 'fairytale' economics

Today programme presenter Nick Robinson brought up a tweet from a TV leadership debate on July 15, where Mr Hands said: 'Rishi speaks out against more debt and “fairytale” economics'.

Daily Mirror

Kwasi Kwarteng hits 46-year record low for Chancellors after mini-budget - poll

Exclusive: Poll shows 65 per cent adults in Britain dissatisfied with Chancellor

Evening Standard

Tories 'plotting to replace Liz Truss with Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt pact'

Liz Truss is said to be thinking of another mini-Budget U-turn as speculation grows that her days are numbered, with senior Tory MPs reportedly plotting a replacement

Daily Mirror

Inside the Tory meltdown as MPs openly talk of 'regime change' against Liz Truss

A crestfallen Tory warned Liz Truss’s "authority is seeping away in front of us". An ex-Cabinet minister said "regime change" could happen if things don’t improve. A third MP fumed: "Something has to happen. This situation cannot carry on"

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The Guardian - UK

This mini-budget crisis feels like the death of the Conservative party

Liz Truss has reduced the Tories to a failed revolutionary faction staring into a £62bn black hole, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Michael Gove lined up to become presenter on News UK’s Times Radio

Exclusive: MP and former minister may also write articles for the Times newspaper, according to sources

The Guardian - UK

Cost of eradicating NHS repairs backlog hits £10bn for first time

NHS in England would need to spend £10.2bn to bring rundown buildings and kit up to standard, figures show

The National (Scotland)

Priti Patel tipped for seat in House of Lords

FORMER home secretary Priti Patel is reportedly being tipped for a seat in the House of Lords.

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The Independent UK

Barbara Windsor’s widower urges PM not to scrap dementia mission in her memory

The Carry On and EastEnders star campaigned to raise awareness after being diagnosed with the disease.

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson’s Covid laws took away our rights with flick of a pen. Don’t let that happen again

Ministers ruled by decree for more than two years. That’s not true democracy and it remains a risk, says barrister Adam Wagner

The Independent UK

‘There goes the neighbourhood’: Hugh Grant resurfaces 2019 warning about Conservatives election victory

Actor is a vocal critic of the Tory government

Belfast Live

Co Down couple opening new bakery after starting off at home with a small oven

They plan to open in December

The Independent UK

Indian official dismisses report trade deal with UK on ‘verge of collapse’ over Suella Braverman comments

Truss led the opening rounds of trade talks in 2021 which was considered a shot in the arm for UK’s post-Brexit economy

The Guardian - UK

Wrong again! Why is Liz Truss floundering after her U-turns, while Johnson and Blair shrugged theirs off?

The PM has performed a series of screeching U-turns since entering Number 10. But is abandoning a policy always a disaster – or is there a way to get away with it?

Wales Online

Boris Johnson earns £315,000 for 30 minute speech and 'fireside chat' in United States

The ex-prime minister is reported to have discussed Brexit and Ukraine but avoided talking about the circumstances of his departure from No 10

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