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The next leader will be as much to blame for our crisis as the PM – no matter how they try to shimmy away from the crime scene, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Members of the ASLEF union have accepted an improved pay offer from transport bosses that should mean more passenger services running across Scotland.

Ex-chancellor Rishi Sunak had mooted tax similar to energy profits levy on North Sea oil and gas

What have Boris Johnson's potential replacements voted for

Nearly all candidates to replace Boris Johnson have pledged massive tax cuts as soon as they get into office.

UBER secretly lobbied ministers in order to influence London’s transport policy, it has been reported.

Eleven candidates have put themselves forward but he won't be one of them

Promises of tax cuts from candidates to succeed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pose another inflationary risk which could pressure the Bank of England to raise interest rates more aggressively, cancelling out any potential boost to the economy.

Foreign secretary is running on a platform of tax cuts

Nadine Dorries, Paul Dacre and Allegra Stratton among those reportedly lined up for peerages

Five days into the contest, the candidates to be the next Conservative prime minister have already offered £235 billion in tax cuts. None of them have begun to suggest how they would pay for them. Yet on they go, blithely playing to the gallery of Tory members, making promises that are…