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'China threat' emerges in elections from UK to Australia

While inflation and recession fears weigh heavily on the minds of voters, another issue is popping up in political campaigns from the U_K_ and Australia to the U_S_ and beyond: the “China threat.”

The Independent UK

Liz Truss 22 points ahead in race to be Britain's next PM -poll

Britain's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is 22 percentage points ahead of her rival Rishi Sunak in the contest to become the country's next prime minister, a poll of Conservative Party members by Opinium Research showed on Saturday.

Reuters

UK leadership candidate Sunak says scrapping BoE independence would be a massive mistake

Rishi Sunak, the underdog in the race to become Britain's next prime minister, said scrapping the Bank of England's independence would be a mistake that would scare off international investors.

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Leadership candidates raise thousands but frontrunners’ backers remain a mystery

Suella Braverman received £10,000 from a company owned by a leading climate sceptic.

The Independent UK

Gordon Brown economics versus Liz Truss tax cuts: a new twist in the battle to resolve the UK’s cost of living crisis

The ongoing Conservative Party leadership hustings haven’t seen much agreement between candidates, but they have resulted in the creation of a new political narrative: “Gordon Brown economics”. Foreign secretary Liz Truss explained away her rejection of cost of living “handouts” for households with the phrase. But even as she indicated…

The Conversation

Tories face questions over £500,000 of donations linked to bribery-accused banker

Labour asks whether Conservatives will give back funds, and calls for Tory co-chair’s sacking

The Guardian - UK

Tory leadership campaigns linked to climate sceptics, property moguls and tech investors

WEALTHY donors gifted thousands to Conservative Party leadership campaigns, new figures show.

The National (Scotland)

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Rishi Sunak ‘dug heels in’ to resist changes to Brexit red tape, Liz Truss allies claim in fresh attack

Kwasi Kwarteng and Simon Clarke accuse former chancellor of pushing ‘Labour-lite economic policy’

The Independent UK

I would rather lose than win on a false promise: Rishi Sunak

LONDON: Britain's prime ministerial candidate Rishi Sunak has insisted that he would rather lose the Conservative Party leadership race to replace Boris Johnson than win on a false promise on how he plans to tackle the economic crisis.

The Times of India

Sunak promises new cost-of-living help worth ‘a few billions’

Pledge falls well short of £15bn-plus which charities and experts believe is needed

The Independent UK

Liz Truss gives strong hint Kemi Badenoch could be next foreign secretary

The Tory PM hopeful spoke to GB News in the former ‘red wall’ seat of Leigh

Evening Standard

From the ‘Brexit shredder’ to headless actors – Rishi Sunak must stop these dreadful campaign videos

The #Ready4Rishi campaign has been putting out budget video after budget video. Let’s take a look at the oeuvre so far, says Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson

The Guardian - UK

Tory hustings: Sunak says Truss’s tax cut ‘worthless’ in helping poorest during cost of living crisis

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak spoke before Conservative members in Darlington

Evening Standard

Campaign group plans to form mass protest for upcoming Conservative Party leadership hustings in Perth

PerthAgainst Racism wants to form an “all-Scotland festival of opposition to the Tory party” when Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss arrive at the chosen venue

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Evening Standard

Raab warns Truss’s tax measures will be ‘electoral suicide note’ for Conservative Party

The deputy prime minister has supported Rishi Sunak’s leadership bid in a Times column

Daily Mirror

Northerners earn £8,404 less despite years of Tory promises to 'level-up'

The figures were revealed to the Mirror by the Northern Powerhouse Partnership as the Conservative Party leadership hustings roll into the heart of the Red Wall

The Independent UK

Who are the Conservative Party members who will choose the next prime minister?

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

Evening Standard

Tories singing from same hymn sheet as football’s Premier League

This weekend a competition began to rival the Conservative Party leadership content in its predictability and lack of intrigue. Though the standard of play is higher and the entertainment on offer greater than that provided by Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, the English Premier League just opened another season in…

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Reuters

UK's Liz Truss ready to speed up tax cut plan, newspaper says

Liz Truss, the front-runner to become Britain's next prime minister, plans to rush through tax cuts earlier than planned in an attempt to boost the country's flagging economy, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

Reuters

UK's Sunak criticised for claiming he diverted funds from deprived areas

Rishi Sunak, trailing in the two-horse race to replace British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, faced criticism on Friday for saying he had previously instigated policy changes to divert funding away from deprived urban areas.

Manchester Evening News

Rishi Sunak tells Tories he's taken money from ‘deprived' areas to help wealthy towns in leaked video

'We inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone'

The Independent UK

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

Final two vying to be PM making their case to Conservative Party membership

Reuters

Liz Truss to set out economic plans to finance sector in bid to lead Britain

Liz Truss, front-runner to be Britain's next prime minister, will set out her economic plans to finance sector officials on Friday, including scrapping legacy EU laws by the end of 2023.Foreign Minister Truss is up against former finance minister Rishi Sunak to win the votes of 200,000 members of the…

Reuters

Sunak and Truss clash over recession warning in debate

British foreign minister Liz Truss clashed over the future of the economy with former finance minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday as the two contenders to be Britain's next prime minister debated the Bank of England's warnings of a long recession.

Evening Standard

Andrew Bailey hits back at claims Bank of England too slow to raise interest rate

The shocking assessment of the economy has reset the backdrop for the Conservative leadership contest

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