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Liz Truss: how to understand polls that give Labour an enormous lead – and why the Tories are right to fear a major election loss

When Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced that he would not be going ahead with his plan to scrap the top rate of tax in the UK, he claimed that he had done so because “he listened” to the public. There had indeed been a widespread outcry over his plan, set out…

The Conversation

Liz Truss’ history of U-turns after first major reversal as Prime Minister

The Tory frontrunner has performed many U-turns, big and small

The Independent UK

Susanna Reid defends Ed Balls as he's brutally told he's 'wasted' at ITV Good Morning Britain by guest

The presenter was back at the helm of the ITV new programme alongside the former Labour MP

Manchester Evening News

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Priti Patel accuses Liz Truss of spending ‘with no thought of tomorrow’

Former home secretary says Tories ‘live or die’ on their economic credibility

The Independent UK

UK's Truss vows to listen as she reels from policy U-turns

British Prime Minister Liz Truss has insisted she is leading “a listening government” that learns from its mistakes

The Independent UK

Liz Truss under pressure over benefits as she refuses to rule out real terms cut

Senior former Welsh Tory minister Stephen Crabb says the U-turns so far have not been enough to pacify anger on Conservative benches

Wales Online

Liz Truss refuses to rule out real terms cuts to Universal Credit as pressure mounts on PM

The Prime Minister is reportedly considering raising benefits in line with earnings rather than inflation - and telling claimants it is unfair to receive a higher raise than workers.

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Maddest moments from past Tory conferences - Theresa May’s P45 to Truss' pork markets

The Conservative Party Conference is currently underway in Birmingham, with prime minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in attendance as they discuss policies and U-turns

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss refuses to rule out real-terms benefits cuts

PM facing fresh battle with MPs as she declines to commit to raising benefits in line with inflation

The Guardian - UK

Truss faces new challenge over UK welfare payments

British Prime Minister Liz Truss triggered a new row in her party on Tuesday by suggesting she could limit increases in benefit payments to less than soaring inflation as she seeks ways to fund her tax-cutting growth plan.

Reuters

Liz Truss refuses to rule out real-terms cuts to benefits

PRIME Minister Liz Truss has refused to rule out real-terms benefit cuts in order to help pay for her government’s tax-cutting growth plan.

The National (Scotland)

Liz Truss admits mistake over claim no one's energy bills will exceed £2,500

The Prime Minister acknowledged that she 'should have been more specific' when she incorrectly said that nobody would pay fuel bills of more than £2,500 - which is an average rather than a cap

Daily Mirror

Defiant Liz Truss faces full-scale Tory revolt as she plots to cut benefits for poor

One Nation Tory Damian Green said Liz Truss would 'probably not' get benefit cuts through Parliament - as even serving minister Penny Mordaunt warned she must not 'help people with one hand and take away with another'

Daily Mirror

London streets are not safe, admits Prime Minister Liz Truss

‘I want to see the London Mayor do more to tackle crime in the capital’

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Evening Standard

Watch: Kwarteng shrugs off ‘little turbulence’ after U-turn over tax cut for rich

Kwasi Kwarteng has sought to shrug off the chaos that triggered his astonishing U-turn on income tax cuts for the highest earners as a “little turbulence” as he battled to regain authority. The Chancellor remarked it had been a “tough” day as he told Conservative members in his set-piece conference…

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss says she wants to cut top rate of tax eventually and says she does trust Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor – as it happened

PM says says she backs idea to abolish tax cut for high earners in principle despite shelving it for now

The Independent UK

Pound bounces back in Asia trading after Liz Truss’s tax plan U-turn

Sterling is at its highest value against dollar since 22 September

The Independent UK

Liz Truss refuses to rule out more U-turns as rebellion over benefits cuts grows

Embattled PM refuses to confirm plan for benefits, as minister Penny Mordaunt breaks ranks

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Wales Online

The Welsh Tories who backed Liz Truss - what do they have to say now?

The leader they supported has got of to a humiliating start so far

Evening Standard

Liz Truss fights for ‘hearts and minds’ of Tory MPs as revolt deepens

String of Tory MPs line up to raise fears on benefits cuts

Wales Online

Row over Universal Credit and other DWP benefits amid fears of Liz Truss cut

Ms Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng may announce a real-terms cut in benefits

Evening Standard

Tory Party conference latest LIVE: Liz Truss ally accuse fellow MPs of ‘coup’ over tax rebellion

It comes after Kwasi Kwarteng was forced into a humiliating U-turn on the 45p tax rate cut

The Independent UK

Liz Truss news – live: Braverman backs 45p tax rate cut and claims U-turn was ‘coup’

Truss faces a new battle with her MPs on welfare after 45p tax rate U-turn

Reuters

Britain's weakened Truss faces fight for credibility

British Prime Minister Liz Truss had hoped her governing Conservative Party's annual conference would be her crowning glory, but instead she was forced into a humiliating U-turn that has left her, and her team, fighting for credibility.

Wales Online

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng makes second U-turn in two days as he promises to set out debt plan earlier than planned

Kwasi Kwarteng has made the change after markets reacted badly to his package of tax cuts

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