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Liz Truss can claim £115,000 every year from taxpayer after resigning as Prime Minister

Liz Truss announced that she would be stepping down from her role as Prime Minister on Thursday (October 20) after she said she was unable to deliver the mandate she was elected to do.

Edinburgh Live

How will the race for the UK’s next prime minister unfold?

The ruling Conservative Party is expected to select the new prime minister by October 28 following Truss’s resignation.

Al Jazeera

Why the energy price cap isn’t what it seems

Liz Truss initially moved to rein in runaway household bills caused by rising global gas prices, only for new chancellor Jeremy Hunt to cut short government aid

The Independent UK

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Nadine Dorries to stand in for Piers Morgan on TalkTV show

Piers Morgan will be taking a week off from presenting Uncensored

Manchester Evening News

Return to power would allow Boris Johnson to emulate his hero

It would also make sense of an obscure reference in his resignation speech

Wales Online

When is the £400 winter fuel payment due?

Households will start receiving money off their energy bills from October

The Independent UK

All the cost of living help available and how to get the payment

Poorer households are expected to be hardest-hit, while eldery people have reported having to choose between heating or eating

The Independent UK

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Liz Truss resigns: so why isn't the UK having an election?

Liz Truss resigned as the Conservative party leader just 45 days after being elected to that position. She was forced out by her backbenchers because of a disastrously misjudged mini-budget, concerns about her competency and a catastrophic collapse in the Conservatives’ poll ratings. She is now destined to become the…

The Conversation

First Thing: Boris Johnson urged to make comeback after Liz Truss resigns

Former PM dominates debate as contest to replace Liz Truss begins, only six weeks after he left office. Plus, the lettuce that outlasted Truss

The Guardian - UK

ITV Good Morning Britain viewers slam show for giving Boris Johnson's dad 'air time' with Kate Garraway and Adil Ray

His appearance came as supporters of Boris Johnson are backing the former PM to make an extraordinary political comeback

Manchester Evening News

Timeline: Key moments in Liz Truss’s 45 days as prime minister

PM has resigned as Tory leader after shortest ever reign in Downing Street

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer demands 44-day PM Liz Truss turns down her £115,000-a-year fund for life

Labour's leader demanded the Prime Minister, who is 47, refuse the Public Duty Cost Allowance, which she is able to claim at £115,000 a year until the day she dies. John Major is claiming the full amount 25 years after he left office

Daily Mirror

Odds on who is going to replace Liz Truss as Prime Minister

Truss will step down as PM when her successor is appointed in the next week

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson: The ex-PM who could copy his hero with second stint in Number 10

Boris Johnson has been dogged by scandal throughout his career, but his election-winning record could tempt MPs to gamble on him once again.

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Stability of UK economy in Ireland’s interest, country’s finance minister says

Paschal Donohoe said he hopes close cooperation between the two countries can resume with a new UK Prime Minister.

Manchester Evening News

Police appeal for public's help to find suspected burglar

Reece Taylor has links to Heywood, Rochdale and Bury

Axios

Lessons from the ouster of UK's Truss: "The bill has come due"

The bond vigilantes are back in force.

France 24

Britain's leadership crisis: 'We need to drop the ego'

A day after declaring she was "a fighter not a quitter", Liz Truss resigned, becoming the shortest-serving British prime minister in history. With the UK now poised to have its fifth leader in six years, we discuss the leadership crisis with political writer, author and leadership specialist Stefan Stern. He…

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The Independent UK

Liz Truss’s history of U-turns as PM steps down after just 45 days in power

Britain’s short-lived PM was no stranger to about-turns even before she entered Downing Street

Daily Record

Boris Johnson returning as Prime Minister would fill Scots with 'revulsion'

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford hit out at reports the former PM is eyeing a return after the humiliating exit of Liz Truss

Evening Standard

Petition calling for a general election passes 300k signatures

The new Prime Minister will be elected via an online vote next Friday

The Guardian - UK

The Tory leadership race is not just a political battle – it’s religious warfare

The party has reached a stage where purity of faith is valued over sound judgment or evidence, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh police arrest teen wanted on suspicion of murder in London

The 17-year-old male was arrested in the Capital on Wednesday and he has since been transferred to a police station in London.

The National (Scotland)

Douglas Ross urged to quit U-turns and back General Election

DOUGLAS Ross has been challenged to support a general election by the SNP, with the party warning it would be “undemocratic” for the Tories to…

France 24

'Lettuce rejoice': UK PM Liz Truss outlived by vegetable

IN THE PRESS – Friday, 21.10.2022: We take a look at how the British papers are covering Liz Truss's resignation and how the conversation has already moved on to who will replace her as PM. We then look at the joke in the press of "Liz vs the Lettuce". The…

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