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Get back on track, Mr Sunak: Britain’s big business bosses in exasperated rallying call over HS2

PM urged to ‘stop dithering’ as he refuses 12 times to rule out plan to scrap northern leg, as first revealed by The Independent

The Independent UK

Tory ministers are to blame for spiralling HS2 costs, says ex-rail boss

Former HS2 chairman fires back at ‘short sighted’ ministers and says axing northern leg would be ‘scandalous’

The Independent UK

September dates for benefits, pensions and cost of living payments

Inflation falling but not swiftly enough to prevent further interest rate rise making life tougher for mortgage holders

The Independent UK

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Five Labour mayors join forces to derail Sunak’s plan to axe HS2

Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham among local leaders in talks with transport chiefs

The Independent UK

September dates for benefits, pensions and cost of living payments

Inflation falling but not swiftly enough to prevent further interest rate rise making life tougher for mortgage holders

The Independent UK

Why Sunak wants to scrap HS2 – project bosses wasting millions ‘like kids with golden credit card’

PM believes ‘ballooning bill is far worse than anyone knows’

The Independent UK

Grassroots music venues in middle of ‘full-blown crisis’, Music Venue Trust tells Jeremy Hunt

Charity organisation says more than 15 per cent of UK’s remaining grassroots music venues have been forced to shut their doors in the past 12 months

The Independent UK

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September dates for benefits, pensions and cost of living payments

Inflation falling but not swiftly enough to prevent further interest rate rise making life tougher for mortgage holders

The Independent UK

Cabinet split over Sunak’s HS2 ‘gross act of vandalism’

Exclusive: Levelling up secretary Michael Gove and transport secretary Mark Harper ‘very unhappy’ over plan to axe northern leg – first revealed by this newspaper – as George Osborne attacks ‘economic self-harm’

The Independent UK

Rail experts say downscaling HS2 would be ‘commercial and operational mess’

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt are reported to be meeting to discuss the future of the project in the coming days.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak stays silent on inheritance tax slash speculation

Rishi Sunak declined to comment on speculation that he is drawing up plans to slash inheritance tax.

The National (Scotland)

Scrapping HS2 would be ‘gross act of vandalism’, Osborne and Heseltine warn

The former deputy PM Lord Heseltine and ex-chancellor George Osborne warned the PM not to go ahead with plans to scrap the northern leg of HS2, first revealed by The Independent

The Independent UK

September dates for benefits, pensions and cost of living payments

Inflation falling but not swiftly enough to prevent further interest rate rise making life tougher for mortgage holders

The Independent UK

How The Independent revealed Sunak’s plan to cut HS2 - and how the government reacted

The Independent’s revelations about HS2 rocked Westminster

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Tory donor threatens to pull funding if Sunak scraps northern HS2 rail line

Exclusive: Major donor questioning ‘ability to continue support’ for party amid doubt over Birmingham to Manchester leg

The Independent UK

Government minister says inheritance tax is ‘deeply unfair’ as Sunak ‘plans to scrap’ levy

Rishi Sunak is said to be preparing to announce a cut in the levy – or even scrap it altogether

The Independent UK

September dates for benefits, pensions and cost of living payments

Inflation falling but not swiftly enough to prevent further interest rate rise making life tougher for mortgage holders

The Independent UK

Inheritance tax ‘punitive’ and ‘unfair’, says minister as Sunak mulls change

Grant Shapps said: ‘I just lost a parent and I can understand entirely why people find inheritance tax particularly punitive.’

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The Guardian - UK

‘This can only end badly’: Tories fear Sunak policy blitz is bound to fail

The prime minister has reset his party’s agenda with a wave of new initiatives. But is it a coherent strategy or a blind panic?

The Guardian - UK

A year after Truss’s demolition job, the UK is still in a hole

Her worst ideas were reversed, but today’s economy is similarly floundering, as Sunak prepares for his own autumn budget

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak pushes to axe northern HS2 rail line ahead of Tory conference

Sources say the PM wants to scrap the project’s section o Manchester before the party’s annual gathering in the city next weekend

The Independent UK

September dates for benefits, pensions and cost of living payments

Inflation falling but not swiftly enough to prevent further interest rate rise making life tougher for mortgage holders

Evening Standard

Former Tory leaders condemn ‘desperate’ move to ditch HS2 to Manchester

Boris Johnson said rumoured cuts to HS2 were ‘Treasury driven nonsense’, with David Cameron also said to have intervened.

The Independent UK

Lib Dems promise to double statutory pay for parental leave

Exclusive: Ed Davey’s party to offer huge increase in payments and expand time off by nine weeks

The Independent UK

Scrapping second leg of HS2 would be a ‘tragedy’, warns government tsar

Boris Johnson and David Cameron have also warned Rishi Sunak not to cut back the project, with the former saying it would ‘mutilate’ the planned rail network

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