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The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

What the papers say – October 3

Politics and a heartfelt plea from Mel B feature among Monday’s front pages.

The Independent UK

Tory MP 'submits letter' calling for Liz Truss confidence vote amid backbench rebellion

The unnamed member of the parliamentary Conservative party reportedly handed in their letter to the 1922 committee on Sunday night as the Tories' public approval rating plummets

Daily Mirror

King ‘ordered’ to skip climate summit by British PM

King Charles will not attend an international COP27 climate change summit due to be held in Egypt next month.

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Grant Shapps joins Tory revolt over PM scrapping top rate of income tax

Fellow former cabinet minister Michael Gove had earlier threatened to vote against the Government's mini-budget

Wales Online

Kwarteng to make crunch conference speech as revolt grows over tax cuts for rich

The Chancellor will insist that his plan to boost growth is right despite mounting opposition from senior Tories.

The Independent UK

'Tired party of the past - Liz Truss is politically a dead woman walking'

Tory MPs now recognise that the unelected Prime Minister could cost even more of them their parliamentary seats than Boris Johnson would have done

Daily Mirror

King Charles III will not attend COP 27 climate summit

The King spoke at COP26 when it was in Glasgow last year, and had indicated he would attend again in 2022. But the palace says the decision not to was made in "mutual friendship".

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‘We must stay the course with tax plan,’ Chancellor to say in crunch Tory conference speech

Kwasi Kwarteng will defend his planned tax cuts following criticism from Michael Gove

Evening Standard

Unions brand bid to exempt firms with up 500 staff from new rules ‘reckless’

Government says change would apply to all new regulations and it would look to raise in threshold in future

The Guardian - UK

MPs warn Liz Truss over 'betraying' heroes of nuclear tests in 1950s and 1960s

Tory and Labour backbenchers say the PM is reneging on promises to veterans of Cold War radiation experiments

Daily Mirror

Prime minister Liz Truss is 'dead woman walking', according to ex-Cabinet minister

The former minister believes the PM will be gone before Christmas

Bristol Post

Tory MPs threaten rebellion against Liz Truss over mini-budget

Party conference overshadowed by fears that refusing to do a U-turn on tax and spending cuts will kill off election chances

The Guardian - UK

Truss’s mini-budget looks likely to cost the Tories the next election

Tory MPs fear voters see them as the nasty party again after the prime minister refused to rethink tax cuts for the rich

The Guardian - UK

Alan Kohler: Past budgets and tax cuts are a foreign country

When LP Hartley wrote “the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”, as the first line of his novel The Go-Between, he was on about

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Liz Truss is 'dead woman walking' who may be gone by Christmas, ex-Cabinet minister says

The senior figure warned The Prime Minister will not survive until Christmas unless she U-turns on her plan to give Brits earning over £150,000 a tax cut

Daily Mirror

Black Wednesday-style Tory collapse could trigger a Labour landslide, says top pollster

Tory members said 'wow' and 'shocking' as Professor Sir John Curtice said Labour's current poll lead - including a 7% swing in a week - would give the party a majority of more than 100 seats

The Independent UK

Ben Wallace: Specialist ships will protect underwater cables from Russia

The Defence Secretary warned that Moscow makes ‘no secret’ of its ability to target underwater infrastructure.

Belfast Live

After market turmoil over mini-budget, what do NI Tories think now about Liz Truss?

After market turmoil and Labour surging ahead in the polls, is there any sense of buyer's remorse?

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Nottingham Post

Woman recalls pain of losing brother in M1 smart motorway crash as protestors call for their end

Campaigners are calling on Liz Truss to stick to her word and scrap smart motorways

The Guardian - UK

Tory MP Steve Baker apologises to Ireland and EU for behaviour during Brexit

Northern Ireland minister says he and colleagues had not always respected others’ ‘legitimate interests’

The Guardian - UK

Tory MPs hit back after threats issued to those opposing 45p tax rate abolition

Party chair Jake Berry’s ‘very provocative and very silly’ warning risks ‘breaking the dam’, say backbenchers

The Guardian - UK

Radon Liz hits the Tory conference with all smirks blazing

Upbeat yet catatonic, the prime minister gives party members the impression she positively enjoys being unpopular

The Independent UK

Tory minister Steve Baker apologises to EU for his behaviour during Brexit

Brexiteer shows contrition over ‘ferocious’ stance

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Tory conference: a carnival of shame

Editorial: The Conservative party will regret inflicting a prime minister on Britain who has packed so much failure into such a short time

The Guardian - UK

Mini-budget debacle likely to create tension between Truss and Kwarteng

The turmoil in financial markets has led to reports of friction between the prime minister and her closest political ally, the chancellor

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