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Party conference season is here – but decades of polling evidence suggests these events barely move the dial

From late September to early October, the UK’s political parties gather for their autumn conferences. The Conservatives, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party will be among the parties bringing their members and MPs together at some expense in a season that lasts about three weeks.

The Conversation

I’ll chart a path to lower taxes – I just can’t say when, Jeremy Hunt tells Tories

The Chancellor has ruled out tax cuts this year but is keeping alive hopes of a pre-election giveaway

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak accused of presiding over ‘chaos’ as Tory conference braces for news of HS2 Manchester leg cancellation – as it happened

Andy Burnham, Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, says news would be ‘profoundly depressing’

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UK Treasury chief says he'll hike the minimum wage but rules out tax cuts while inflation stays high

Britain’s Treasury chief is announcing a hike in the national minimum wage

The Independent UK

Hunt rules out big tax cuts despite Tory calls for pre-election giveaway

The Chancellor said cuts this year would ‘compromise’ the battle against inflation.

The Independent UK

Hunt to raise living wage to £11 an hour and crackdown on benefit ‘shirkers’

National living wage to increase to £11 an hour, Hunt to promise at Tory conference

The Independent UK

Hunt to set out tougher welfare rules and boost living wage at Tory conference

Other measures at the Manchester gathering will include a plan to ban mobile phones in England’s schools.

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Chancellor gives ‘pay boost for two million’ as living wage increases to £11 an hour

The Chancellor said the pay-rise would benefit the lowest-paid

Evening Standard

$Go further on housebuilding and lift fracking ban to restore Tory values – Truss$

Go further on housebuilding and lift fracking ban to restore Tory values – Truss

The former prime minister is to deliver a speech on the fringes of the Conservative conference in Manchester.

The Independent UK

Sunday at Tory conference: highlights of the day

A row over tax cuts, a car crash start for Onward and the home secretary accused of attention-seeking

The Guardian - UK

Little sign of Tory unity as factions jostle on first day of conference

Rishi Sunak’s hopes of united front flounder with MPs and even ministers challenging policy and jockeying for position

The Guardian - UK

Vultures circle around Sunak as dead-eyed delegates look on

The Tory party conference in Manchester is all about survival – no one except those close to the PM have much faith in a reset

The Guardian - UK

Sunak faces open revolt over refusal to back tax cuts

(And he STILL won’t come clean about plan to cancel northern leg of HS2)

The Independent UK

Tory mayor says he would not bet on party winning next election

Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen was speaking at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.

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The Independent UK

Back Rishi or ‘shut up’, Liz Truss told, as Tory grandees fear grandstanding will hurt them at the polls

Ex-PM told her plans to back tax cuts at party conference are ‘total and utter disgrace. How dare she?’

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak claims putting reducing inflation ahead of tax cuts Thatcherite and ‘deeply Conservative’ – as it happened

Prime minister says ‘the best tax cut we can give is to cut inflation’ after Michael Gove says taxes should be cut before general election

The Guardian - UK

The Tories meet in Manchester plagued by their delusions, desperation and divisions

Number 10’s desire to stage a display of unity and confidence is threatened with sabotage from the fringe

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak needs to rally his flagging Conservatives. He hopes a dash of populism will do the trick

Britain's governing Conservative Party is gathering for its annual conference

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The Guardian - UK

Poll spells trouble for Rishi Sunak as voters who ‘lent’ votes look to take them back

Party loses 40% of 2019 voters in south and Midlands according to exclusive Opinium poll for the Observer

The Guardian - UK

Tory turmoil as third of voters desert party and factions launch rival manifestoes

Exclusive poll for Observer reveals Conservatives have lost support in their southern England heartlands and the Red Wall

The Independent UK

Tories heading for landslide election defeat, says Britain’s top pollster

Exclusive: Sunak could be presiding over ‘wake’ at conference, warns Prof John Curtice – with voters furious over NHS failures, cost of living, migrants and Liz Truss

The Independent UK

Tory MPs demand Cabinet minister position for the North and 500,000 new homes

The Northern Research Group said the North of England will act as ‘kingmakers’ at the next election.

The Independent UK

Nervous Tories implore PM to ‘ignore populist insanity’ and keep slim election hopes alive

This weekend’s Tory Party conference will see the starting gun fired on the race for power at next year’s general election. But Mr Sunak faces an almighty battle, write Kate Devlin and Adam Forrest

The Independent UK

Hunt tries to calm Tory rebels by pledging end to ‘vicious circle’ of tax rises

Liz Truss joins rebels in vowing to vote against any tax rise in Hunt’s mini-Budget

The Guardian - UK

UK welfare budget could be cut to pave way for tax cuts, says Jeremy Hunt

Chancellor says system has to be ‘mix of carrot and stick’ with more assistance to help people find jobs

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