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Political leaders need a grand narrative – Rishi Sunak's is a story of decline

During a January 2023 speech on “building a better future” the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, insisted that “we can change our country’s character. We can reverse the creeping acceptance of a narrative of decline.”

The Conversation

Watch live: Conservative Party conference 2023 gets underway in Manchester

Watch live as the Conservative Party conference 2023 gets underway in Manchester on Sunday 1 October.

The Independent UK

Sunak claims cutting inflation ahead of tax cuts the Thatcherite and ‘deeply Conservative’ thing to do

The Prime Minister suggested his approach is in line with ‘great Conservative governments’ of the past

Evening Standard

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Sunak defends focus on halving inflation amid Tory clamour for tax cuts

The Prime Minister suggested his approach is in line with ‘great Conservative governments’ of the past.

The Independent UK

Britain is still blighted by the class system

One thousand years after William the Conqueror introduced the feudal system, we still define ourselves in terms of social divisions

The Guardian - UK

I’ve got news for Rishi Sunak: he no longer leads the conservative party

From Braverman’s UN threats to the net zero retreat, the Tories’ lurch to the populist right betrays their own supposed principles, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

How British refuse collectors won their strikes and became a model for successful trade unionism

As mountains of rubbish built up in Tower Hamlets and elsewhere, authorities were forced to listen, says Polly Smythe, labour movement correspondent at Novara Media

The Guardian - UK

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Conservative peer says party does not deserve to win next election

Lord Harris, who donated £5,000 to Labour’s Rachel Reeves, criticises Tories over lack of ‘clear vision’

The Guardian - UK

Men who confronted Fishmonger’s Hall terrorist with fire extinguisher and ceremonial pike to be honoured

John Crilly and Likasz Koczocik confronted terrorist Usman Khan

Evening Standard

Cuts, war, Brexit: all fuel the battle for the centre ground, but no one really knows where that is

It is the concept dominating our politics, but unless people have a clear idea what it means, the debate will isolate them further, says author and broadcaster Steve Richards

The Guardian - UK

Men who confronted Fishmonger’s Hall terrorist to be honoured

John Crilly and Likasz Koczocik confronted terrorist Usman Khan with a fire extinguisher and a ceremonial pike.

The Independent UK

Forty years ago, class defined us in Britain. Now it’s we who define our class

More Britons call themselves working class, but they are also increasingly liberal, a new survey reveals

The Guardian - UK

Hero or villain? Rupert Murdoch’s exit stirs strong feelings in Britain, where he upended the media

Rupert Murdoch stirs mixed feelings in Britain, where he transformed the media over half a century

The Independent UK

From ISIS fighter to Japan cult: India advisory points to an old tightrope between headlines, ethics

The Indian government’s advisory asking news channels to “refrain” from giving a platform to individuals facing “charges of serious crimes, including terrorism” and those belonging to banned organisations, has reopened an old debate.

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The Guardian - UK

Sunak’s advisers ready to ‘let Rishi be Rishi’ – but don’t call it a reset

British PM preparing to channel Margaret Thatcher at party conference in attempt to cast aside Tory turmoil

The Guardian - US

Republicans seize on auto workers strike as opportunity to recapture the White House

Republicans believe they stand to gain from the dispute but there is a divide between sympathy and disdain for the workers

The Guardian - UK

Power and scandal: how Murdoch drove the UK, US and Australia to the right

He built a global conservative media empire, but the phone-hacking scandal and Dominion libel action almost undid the divisive mogul

The Independent UK

Rupert Murdoch spent 70 years building the world’s most powerful media empire. Now, it enters a new chapter

The Australian-born mogul inherited a regional newspaper from his father before a global expansion saw him became one of the most powerful media executives in history, Bevan Hurley writes

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The Guardian - UK

Sunak’s bold climate plan? Wait until 2047 – then push the panic button

Close to implosion on Radio 4, the PM insists to Nick Robinson that he is not watering anything down. Even though he is

Evening Standard

OPINION - ‘Red Ken’ had stark highs and lows, but this diagnosis is sad

Not many politicians got the better of Sir Tony Blair but Ken Livingstone has a claim. I remember one late summer’s day in 2005, travelling around Trafalgar Square in a car with Sir Tony, my then-boss and also the prime minister. Around us, people were clearing up after a festival…

The Guardian - UK

‘Wishful thinking’ for Sunak to say UK on course to meet emissions targets, says Climate Change Committee boss – as it happened

Climate Change Committee head says ‘we’ve moved backwards’ after PM defends decision to delay ban on selling new petrol and diesel cars

The Independent UK

Public wants more from government now than at any point in decades, survey finds

People show no sign of wanting cuts despite the increase in taxation and spending during the pandemic.

The Guardian - UK

‘We managed to draw quite a crowd’: a brief history of protest at fashion weeks

This year activists demonstrated against the use of cashmere and leather, but fashion is fertile ground for protests, as Katharine Hamnett proved 40 years ago when she shocked Margaret Thatcher with an anti-cruise missile T-shirt

The Independent UK

‘Red’ Ken Livingstone has been a divisive figure during his 40-year career

The stalwart Labour politician has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at the age of 78.

The Conversation

I've rewatched 150 episodes of Brookside – here's how the soap captured the nuances of Margaret Thatcher's Britain

If you want to understand how Margaret Thatcher shaped Britain, revisiting one particular 1980s soap opera is a great place to start. Brookside, a show set in a Liverpool cul-de-sac, ran for 21 years, airing just under 3,000 episodes between 1982 and 2003.

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