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Liz Truss names Thérèse Coffey as her second-in-command – here's how deputies have performed this key role for past PMs

Liz Truss’s cabinet is taking shape, so far with few surprises as the new prime minister names allies to key posts. Much discussion has centred on the diversity of the top team, with Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor and Suella Braverman as home secretary.

The Conversation

Liz Truss cabinet has highest proportion of privately educated ministers since John Major

The Sutton Trust research shows 68% of the prime minister's senior ministers attended fee-paying schools - compared with 7% of the population

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson's resignation means UK has six living ex-prime ministers for the first time

There have been four prime ministers under a Conservative government for the past 12 years; the Tories have been in power since David Cameron won the election in 2010

Wales Online

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Johnson resignation means UK has six living ex-prime ministers for first time

The number of surviving former PMs has doubled in the past 15 years.

The Independent UK

Life for Liz Truss’s kids in No 10 - pizza nights, sleepovers and strict rules

New Prime Minister Liz Truss is set to move into Downing Street today, alongside her husband and teenage daughters 16-year-old Florence and 13-year-old Liberty

Daily Mirror

Queen’s relationship with her Prime Ministers - and when they broke protocol

Her first Prime Minister was Sir Winston Churchill and her most recent will be Liz Truss, the 15th figure she has welcomed to the role

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's Mikhail Gorbachev funeral nightmare as he fears exposing health to west

Vladimir Putin paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, following his death but the last leader of the Soviet Union's funeral poses issues for the Russia and its president

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From Churchill to Johnson: Queen to meet 15th prime minister at Balmoral

The monarch will meet the new Conservative Party leader next week.

The Independent UK

From the Panorama interview to her funeral, the key moments in Princess Diana’s final years

31 August marks 25 years since Diana died in a fatal car crash

The Independent UK

In pictures: Mikhail Gorbachev - man who helped end the Cold War was feted in the west

The lifelong communist took the reins at a tense time in the Cold War but eventually presided over the demise of the Soviet Union.

Evening Standard

In Pictures: Man who helped end the Cold War was feted in the west

The lifelong communist took the reins at a tense time in the Cold War but eventually presided over the demise of the Soviet Union.

The Independent UK

Meet Liz Truss’s biggest fan – a man whose blind faith reveals a party increasingly driven by ideology

The end is nigh when Conservative stalwarts put a vision of a free-market new Jerusalem above winning elections, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Think it’s all over? Think again – if Truss wins, she will have to call an election

The politician tipped to be the next Tory leader will not be an illegitimate prime minister. But she will be a weak one, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Zahawi faces shortest chancellorship since 1970 – and may be glad of it

The ex-vaccines minister appears to be the equivalent of a caretaker football manager, with Kwarteng waiting in the wings

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Daily Mirror

Who will be in Liz Truss' Cabinet? All the predictions from Suella Braverman to IDS

Tax-slashing free marketeer Liz Truss, who has slammed 'handouts' for struggling Brits, is expected to appoint a string of right-wingers and allies to top jobs now she is Prime Minister

The Guardian - UK

Wonder who Liz Truss will reward with a job or punish with exile? History can tell us

If she becomes Tory leader she will have to weigh up whether voters are expecting a complete clear-out or more of the same

Wales Online

Stats show 'AWOL' Prime Minister rarely misses PMQs

Boris Johnson may skip COBRA meetings but he rarely misses the weekly battle in the Commons

The National (Scotland)

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SNP MP demands probe into Rishi Sunak's boast of taking money from deprived areas

AN SNP MP has written to the head of the Civil Service calling for an investigation into Rishi Sunak’s revelation that he diverted money from…

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: motherhood horror The Baby reaches its wild finale

Will Natasha (Michelle de Swarte) kill or keep the baby? Plus: young sporting hopefuls shoot for goal in Football Dreams: The Academy. Here’s what to watch this evening

Wales Online

Lord Dafydd Wigley says Welsh independence 'less likely' if Scotland vote no in next referendum

During a recent episode of the BBC political podcast series, Walescast, the former Plaid Cymru leader discussed what independence meant to him and what would an independent Wales look like

Evening Standard

Daniel Mays on Line of Duty, female rage and working-class representation: ‘Where’s the next Gary Oldman?’

‘The more that men understand the anxieties and emotions and trauma that women experience, the better’

The Guardian - UK

Sir Christopher Meyer obituary

British ambassador to the US in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq who later served as chair of the Press Complaints Commission

The Guardian - UK

Sir Christopher Meyer, former UK ambassador to US, dies at 78

Meyer was ambassador from 1997 to 2003 and previously press secretary to PM John Major

Belfast Live

David Trimble: Leading figures across the peace process era and political divide pay tribute

“He will forever be associated with the leadership he demonstrated in the negotiations that led up to the 1998 Agreement"

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