The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Tory leadership race: Tom Tugendhat eliminated as Truss gains on Mordaunt

Foreign secretary draws slightly closer to top two, but fails to pick up as much support as Kemi Badenoch

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2022

Leadership debate infighting too toxic even for the Tories

The third instalment didn’t happen after Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak pulled out, while Boris maundered on in the Commons

The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2022

Tory leadership race veers further right as Tom Tugendhat out and Liz Truss advances

Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch will now go through to the next round tomorrow before a final announcement on Wednesday at 4pm - selecting the pair who'll be voted on by Tory members

Daily Mirror · Jul 18, 2022

Penny Mordaunt: Outside bet casting a spell on Tory MPs

Long before the implosion of the Johnson premiership, 49-year-old Ms Mordaunt had been tipped as a potential leadership challenger.

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2022

Cancelled TV debate underlines who Sunak and Truss are now targeting

Analysis: Well-known candidates have moved their charm offensive away from public to Tory MPs

The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2022

'The cancellation of Sky's Tory leadership debate shows what a joke our democracy has become'

Columnist Will Hayward argues that the fact that a party that has run the country for over a decade has decided that it is too risky for the person who is going to govern us to have a public debate shows how many underlying health conditions our country has

Wales Online · Jul 18, 2022

SNP accuse PM candidates of dodging scrutiny as Sky debate cancelled

The SNP has accused the remaining five Tory leadership candidates of dodging scrutiny after the latest TV debate was cancelled by Sky News.

The National (Scotland) · Jul 18, 2022

Kemi Badenoch backs net zero in Tory leadership climate U-turn

MP joins the four other candidates in saying they would not unpick UK’s environmental commitments

The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2022

Tory leadership debate cancelled while London burns

There was something deeply weird about last night’s ITV leadership debate. Not the moment Rishi Sunak asked Liz Truss what presumably his team thought would be a zinger:

Evening Standard · Jul 18, 2022

The Tory leadership race: a 40C fever dream where 0.2% of the UK decide our next leader

We’ve had obnoxiousness, bad pitches and even worse graphics … and there’s still seven weeks to go, says Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson

The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2022