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Former UK minister Gove backs Sunak, says he is quitting frontline politics - The Times

Former British cabinet minister Michael Gove on Friday endorsed Rishi Sunak for prime minister and announced an end of his frontline political career, he said in an op-ed in The Times.

Reuters

Rishi Sunak would ban new smart motorways to end ‘war on motorists’

The former chancellor also said he would clamp down on rogue parking fines.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak tear into "miserabilist mayor" Andy Burnham during Manchester Tory leadership hustings

Both candidates made their pitch to over an audience of over 1,000 local party members in the city tonight - and took the opportunity to attack Mr Burnham's record

Manchester Evening News

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Michael Gove brands Liz Truss plans as ‘a holiday from reality’ as he endorses Rishi Sunak

Michael Gove has branded Liz Truss’s campaign a “holiday from reality” as he announced that he would back Rishi Sunak as party leader.

Evening Standard

Liz Truss mocks BBC to sidestep question about controversial report she co-wrote

The Tory leadership favourite evaded answering a question about the Back to Black pamphlet by suggesting the BBC does not get ‘facts right’.

The Independent UK

Michael Gove says Liz Truss tax plans 'holiday from reality' as he backs Rishi Sunak

The former Tory cabinet minister also says he does not expect to return to frontline politics, saying it was the 'privilege of my life' to serve three prime ministers

Daily Mirror

Michael Gove backs Rishi Sunak and says Liz Truss is on ‘holiday from reality’

The former Cabinet minister suggested the Foreign Secretary’s proposals would put ‘the stock options of FTSE 100 executives’ before the poorest.

The Independent UK

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Millionaire Rishi Sunak bills himself as the 'underdog' in cringeworthy video at Tory hustings

Former chancellor's introductory video at Manchester hustings features a voiceover, claiming: "Britain loves an underdog"

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss brands Manchester’s Andy Burnham a ‘miserabilist mayor’

Ms Truss targeted the Mayor of Greater Manchester in her speech at Friday’s Tory hustings in the city.

The Independent UK

Angela Rayner: Greater Manchester residents will get £1k off bills under Labour as cost of living crisis is now national emergency

'The Tories have lost control. Inevitably, it is working people that are paying the price for their failures'

Manchester Evening News

Revealed: Liz Truss personally supported cuts to NHS and doctors’ pay

Article by Tory hopeful arguing NHS ‘cannot be put on pedestal’ shows she fully backed 2009 cost-cutting pamphlet

The Guardian - UK

Truss vs Sunak news – live: Leadership frontrunner branded ‘on holiday from reality’

Rivals to face Conservative members at GB News event

The Independent UK

UK energy bills crisis could set back health equality by decades, say experts

Chancellor told failure to act would hit services as poverty, cold and missed meals increase sickness rates

The Guardian - UK

Three-quarters of MSPs should support independence before new vote – Tory peer

The Scottish Government has asked the Supreme Court to determine if a draft independence Bill is within Holyrood’s powers.

The Independent UK

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'As PM Boris Johnson vanishes, our sad failing nation heads into the abyss'

Brian Reade says crisis-hit Britain is currently rudderless with the PM absent and the two candidates hoping to take over from him possibly even worse than Boris Johnson

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak takes swipe at Liz Truss over absence from farming hustings

The Foreign Secretary is instead set to meet the National Farmers’ Union on September 1.

Manchester Evening News

Rishi Sunak accuses Andy Burnham of 'failing' to get a grip on crime in Greater Manchester - he's come out fighting...

The former Chancellor said he would empower local councillors to hold "failing" mayors to account

The Guardian - UK

Who better than Liz Truss to lead a country whose own sewage laps at its shores?

There are just two weeks left in a leadership contest that has been going on since sometime in the early Mesozoic period, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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The Independent UK

Grant Shapps threatens to impose new working terms on striking rail staff

Transport secretary steps up battle with unions, saying ‘That is the direction this is moving in now’

The Independent UK

White House sees Liz Truss as ‘Boris loyalist’ and just a continuation of Johnson government - report

Officials say Truss is ‘likely to continue the policies and tone of Johnson’s government’

Evening Standard

New prime minister needs to reverse ‘collapse in public confidence’, top Tory warns

Jake Berry said the new Conservative leader would be under pressure to boost the stalling economy and cap soaring bills

Evening Standard

UK ‘running out of time’ to do anything but to increase energy and social care payments

The price cap is expected to rise to £3,582 in October before increasing again to £4,266 in January

Evening Standard

Despite everything, I still don’t know who the real Liz Truss is

Before the 2016 referendum, a minister in the then-Cameron government, who was voting for Brexit, asked Liz Truss, with whom they worked closely, which way she was going to swing. She replied, with little hesitation, that although she believed in Brexit, because it was highly likely the Leave camp would…

The Guardian - UK

I got a £350 cost of living payment. What happens after that? It’s hardly going to get me through the winter

Sunak and Truss make any number of promises about what they’ll do as PM – but they will do nothing, like the rest of them , says Liz

The National (Scotland)

Liz Truss 'delaying human rights report due to Rwanda criticism'

LIZ Truss has been accused of delaying an annual report on human rights because it is likely to criticise Rwanda’s human rights record.

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