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Pollster: Leadership barbs to linger for longer among Tory MPs than voters

Lord Hayward said the next prime minister must create the circumstances under which the previous frictions ‘disappear’.

The Independent UK

Boost for Liz Truss as new poll shows she beat Rishi Sunak in BBC debate

Liz Truss’s campaign to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister received a major boost on Tuesday after a new poll of Conservative members suggested she had comfortably won Monday night’s fiery televised BBC debate with Rishi Sunak.

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson will be ‘permanent nightmare’ for new prime minister, warns Lord Hague

‘That he wants revenge on Rishi Sunak is already apparent,’ former Tory leader says

The Independent UK

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Liz Truss: Who is the foreign secretary hoping to become prime minister?

Social media savvy ‘human hand grenade’ seen as continuity candidate and currently ahead of Rishi Sunak thanks to questionable tax promises and neo-Thatcherite branding

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak: Who is the former chancellor running to be the next PM?

Richmond MP must convince fellow Tories he is right man to lead economic revival and unite party

The Independent UK

A general election is coming, but this country needs a deeper change

As the two Conservative candidates seeking to replace Boris Johnson as leader of their party and Prime Minister of our country got ready to debate yesterday, Labour leader Keir Starmer was in Liverpool making his case for the next general election.

Evening Standard

Police admit they didn't send Boris Johnson questionnaires on TWO Partygate events

The revelation is thought to be the first time the Metropolitan Police has admitted this, under details released as part of a legal challenge by the Good Law Project

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Tory leadership race: What happens next in Rishi Sunak vs Liz Truss contest?

Final two vying to be PM will make their case to Tory members

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson will be 'permanent nightmare' for next Tory PM, warns Hague

Former Conservative leader Lord Hague said the fact that Boris Johnson 'wants revenge on Rishi Sunakis already apparent, but if Liz Trussis elected, she will face the identical problem'

Daily Mirror

High-octane Liz Truss is powered by self-belief. Don’t underestimate her

The greatest asset of politicians is not subtlety or skill but a sense of unstoppability. The day after the latest slugfest TV debate in the Tory leadership race, we can argue about whether Rishi Sunak’s immigrant opportunity story was better than Liz’s gritty northern empathy for underserved children in poor…

Evening Standard

'May as well be a Tory': Starmer squirms as Labour voter rages at broken promises

BORIS Johnson doesn’t like to be out in public in Scotland ... Keir Starmer has no such excuse, let alone in one of his party’s strongholds.

The National (Scotland)

Met police admit they did NOT send Johnson two questionnaires over partygate

On two key dates - one where the PM was photographed with a drink in his hand - the force admitted they did not send Boris Johnson questionnaires

The National (Scotland)

Who exactly are the 160,000 Tory members who will choose the next prime minister?

Members tend to come from particular backgrounds, age groups and parts of the country

The Independent UK

Public thinks ‘opposite’ to Tory members: John Curtice gives verdict on BBC debate

CONSERVATIVE voters have the “opposite” perception to the rest of the public on whether Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss performed better in the Tory…

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Who won the BBC leadership debate as Tories Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss trade bitter blows

Tory leadership contenders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak spent an hour trashing each other's records in a bad-tempered TV debate, where Mr Sunak was accused of 'mansplaining'

Daily Record

Rishi Sunak claims Scottish independence referendum 'wrong priority at worst possible moment'

The former chancellor is in a two-way race to replace Boris Johnson as the next prime minister with both candidates trying to win over Scottish Tories.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss backer reveals anger at Rishi Sunak for ‘interrupting’ her during stormy TV debate

‘There was genuine frustration at the tone which Rishi struck....the way he kept interrupting Liz when she was trying to set out her side of the story’

Manchester Evening News

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss intensify attacks during hard-fought Tory leadership TV debate

The former chancellor claimed there was 'nothing Conservative' about Ms Truss's approach

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The Independent UK

Tory leadership contenders rule out government job for Boris Johnson

The Foreign Secretary said Mr Johnson ‘needs a well-earned break’.

The National (Scotland)

Brexit court battle brought to stage by theatre critic

THE writer behind a play focussing on the dramatic court battle between anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller and Theresa May has said he is “very…

ABC News

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss clash in first head-to-head televised debate in race to succeed Boris Johnson

The two candidates vying to replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister clash over the economy, amid warnings their in-fighting could condemn the Conservative Party to years in the political wilderness.

Wales Online

Lord Trimble – Good Friday Agreement architect and former UUP leader – dies

Leaders past and present pay tribute to man who 'chose to grasp the opportunity for peace when it presented itself and sought to end the decades of violence that blighted his beloved Northern Ireland'

The Independent UK

Spending gap between London and North doubles despite Boris Johnson’s ‘levelling up’ pledge

Tory leadership contenders told ‘the money didn’t follow the rhetoric’ – and they must ‘listen to the North’

The Independent UK

Sunak and Truss intensify attacks during hard fought Tory leadership TV debate

Former chancellor Mr Sunak claimed there is ‘nothing Conservative’ about Ms Truss’s approach.

Reuters

UK prime minister hopefuls feud over tax and spending plans

The final two candidates in the race to succeed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson clashed on Monday in a televised debate, during which they tore into each other's tax and spending plans.

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