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The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Labour support in ‘red wall’ seats soars to 61%

Remarkable 23-point swing to Keir Starmer’s party in heartlands since mini-Budget mess

The Independent UK

‘Two fingers up at ordinary people’: Birmingham boils amid Tory conference chaos in city

Tax cuts for the rich and eye-watering mortgage rises have left people seething in constituency where Conservatives’ annual gathering is taking place

The Independent UK

Tuesday headlines: One-eyed cat's 150-mile adventure and Rammy outside Digga D's Glasgow gig

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Uproar and disorder: day 3 of the Conservative conference circus

A day after the chancellor’s forced tax-cut reversal, the Tories in Birmingham were still performing some jagged manoeuvres

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss mugs on sale for £14.99 at Tory conference are made in China

Prime Minister has criticised the Beijing government and championed British ceramics

Wales Online

Truss and Kwarteng warned not to stretch medium-term growth timeline

Concerns that fiscal plan may take longer to deliver than the traditional definition of three to five years

The Guardian - UK

Free-market zealots are holding Britain hostage

Letters: The Tory party’s reliance on trickle-down economics will leave society poorer, says Richard Tudway of the Centre for International Economics. Plus letters from Malcolm Stanton, David Plumpton and Joan Friend

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Liz Truss MUST ditch welfare cuts to prevent a 'benefits bloodbath', says Gordon Brown

Writing for the Mirror, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown says Liz Truss must raise benefits by inflation - 'and worry more about millions on the breadline than millionaires in the boardrooms'

Daily Mirror

Government must 'deliver on promises' to dual A1, Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan says

Speech at Conservative Party conference suggests that delays to the long-promised project could be lifted

Chronicle Live

Devolution talks over £3bn North East mayor deal stall with Truss government 'occupied' by turmoil

As Liz Truss' administration is engulfed by controversies surrounding its economic plans, local council leaders have been left waiting for news on the £3bn devolution deal

Chronicle Live

Liz Truss faces mounting anger from MPs as Tory party conference descends into bitter in-fighting

The Prime Minister has been criticised by MPs from her own party for refusing to increase benefits in line with inflation.

Daily Record

'Disappointed' Egypt worried UK will renege on climate promises

Some 90 heads of state have been confirmed for next month’s UN climate conference, with host country Egypt sending a warning shot to Britain – from whom it will inherit the Cop27 presidency – not to backtrack on its commitments to fight global warming.

Radio France Internationale

Brexit NI Protocol deadlock could lead to 'funeral of Good Friday Agreement' says DUP's Edwin Poots

It comes as talks are due to resume between the UK and European Union in the latest attempt to resolve the impasse

Belfast Live

Sunakites to culture warriors: Tory tribes go to war in Birmingham

Conference fractures into intersecting groups whose members are united on issues from low tax to ‘woke’ students

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Cleverly: UK and France will have blazing rows but also work together

The Foreign Secretary declined to say Emmanuel Macron is a ‘friend’, but praised the French President’s comments about the Queen.

Bristol Post

Bristol Tory group leader says new government deserves 'enormous credit' for Energy Price Guarantee

He did say, however, that the Prime Minister needs to "urgently address an obvious communications problem in her Downing Street team"

Daily Mirror

Tory ex-minister Grant Shapps warns Liz Truss has 10 days to save premiership

Grant Shapps said the next few days were the "critical period" for Ms Truss to turn things around as Tory conference descended into open warfare

The Conversation

Fracking: the simple test for whether it should happen in the UK

The UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, recently announced the reversal of the 2019 ban on fracking. Facing an acute energy crisis, the government want to increase domestic energy production.

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Evening Standard

The Standard View: Liz Truss is fighting to prove the 45p U-turn is a one-off

Liz Truss acknowledged today the need to win “hearts and minds” after market turmoil and backbench discontent forced her into a sharp U-turn over plans to scrap the 45p rate of income tax for top earners.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss apologises for not being ‘more specific’ over energy price guarantee

The Prime Minister was urged to publicly correct comments she made during a round of radio interviews last week.

The Independent UK

Kwasi Kwarteng U-turns on U-turn over date of fiscal plan

Government economic policy was today plunged deeper into chaos after Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng U-turned on a plan to calm markets by bringing forward a crucial statement by the chancellor.

Evening Standard

Kwasi Kwarteng says ‘high pressure’ following Queen’s death factor behind flawed mini budget roll-out

Chancellor says pitch could have been prepared better after speed of events created ‘high pressure environment’

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss’s Tories are higher than ever on ideology – and they’re refusing to sober up

This fiscal fiasco hasn’t dimmed the PM’s enthusiasm for bootleg Thatcherism. Only voters can scare the party straight, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Evening Standard

Day of chaos as collective responsibility collapses

Collective cabinet responsibility – the convention by which individual members of the government are held accountable for the actions of the government as a whole – lies at the heart of the British political system.

Evening Standard

Liz Truss battles to maintain Cabinet discipline after U-turn on U-turn

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng appeared to be reversing one U-turn as the PM suggested she could one day cut the top rate of income tax

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