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Tory leadership hustings: Liz Truss defends tax cuts proposal amid criticism from Sunak campaign

Leadership candidates clash over cost-of-living crisis at Birmingham hustings as campaign enters its final weeks

Evening Standard

Truss attacks ‘Treasury orthodoxy’ as she promotes tax-cutting leadership pitch

Rishi Sunak warned that millions of households face ‘destitution’ without further support this winter.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss says she'll divert billions from NHS into stricken social care

The Tory leadership frontrunner has raised fresh questions after vowing to plunge the cash from a £12bn National Insurance rise into social care - despite reversing that rise as soon as she's PM

Daily Mirror

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Liz Truss says no need for ethics adviser because she knows ‘difference between right and wrong’

‘You cannot outsource ethics to an adviser’, says Tory leadership frontrunner

The Independent UK

Liz Truss economic policy ‘more Ted Heath than Margaret Thatcher’, IFS chief says

Comparison is likely to irk Tory frontrunner who has modelled herself on Britain’s first woman prime minister

The Independent UK

Tory leadership hustings – Birmingham: Liz Truss confirms she will allow new grammar schools – as it happened

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The Guardian - UK

Who will be in Liz Truss' Cabinet? All the predictions from Suella Braverman to IDS

Tax-slashing free marketeer Liz Truss, who has slammed 'handouts' for struggling Brits, is expected to appoint a string of right-wingers and allies to top jobs now she is Prime Minister

Daily Mirror

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‘You don’t think strikes are the answer? What is?’ RMT’s Mick Lynch on work, dignity and union power

With the cost of living soaring and wages falling further behind, the union boss has become the face of resistance. He talks about the rail dispute, the stereotyping of working-class people and his clash with Piers Morgan

The Guardian - UK

Sunak effectively rules out serving in a Truss cabinet, suggesting they don’t agree on ‘big things’ – as it happened

Tory leadership candidate says he is focused on race for No 10; energy bosses call for end to battle so new PM can tackle bills crisis

The Guardian - UK

Channel 4 announces musical about Andrew and revival of Friday Night Live

The slate of programmes are part of Channel 4’s newly announced Truth and Dare season.

The Independent UK

What was life like the last time inflation was this high in 1982?

Margaret Thatcher had been almost three years into her first term as prime minister

Manchester Evening News

Ken Clarke: ‘The idea that tax cuts will automatically produce growth is nonsense’

The veteran Tory, who stood three times to lead his party, on the cost of living crisis, today’s political culture and the best PM we never had

The Guardian - UK

Water firms exist to sustain life. They should answer to citizens, not shareholders

An oversight system with teeth would stop utilities from inflicting misery by profiteering

The Guardian - UK

Wonder who Liz Truss will reward with a job or punish with exile? History can tell us

If she becomes Tory leader she will have to weigh up whether voters are expecting a complete clear-out or more of the same

The Guardian - UK

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This is not the 1970s. Tory pledges to cut taxes are absurd

Sunak and Truss have no grasp of how low personal taxation is now – or how much a battered Britain needs public spending

Wales Online

Stats show 'AWOL' Prime Minister rarely misses PMQs

Boris Johnson may skip COBRA meetings but he rarely misses the weekly battle in the Commons

Evening Standard

How have Dulwich Village locals reacted to the news of Carrie and Boris Johnson’s potential move?

News of the Johnsons’ potential move has proven controversial — here’s what locals think about the possibility of having the couple as neighbours.

The Guardian - UK

Thatcherism is an obsolete ideology – but it’s the only one that Sunak and Truss have

The Tories see fresh thinking as a luxury, so their leaders are sticking with an orthodoxy that’s well past its sell-by date, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Evening Standard

A guide to Dulwich Village: The south London village that Carrie and Boris Johnson could soon call home

Boris and Carrie Johnson are rumoured to be moving to upmarket Dulwich Village after leaving Downing Street — here’s everything you need to know about the area.

The Conversation

Rishi Sunak is more authentic and emotional, and Liz Truss more analytical: a linguistic analysis throws up unexpected results

In a series of hustings across the country, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are talking to Conservative party members about what they plan to do if elected as leader of the party and prime minister of the UK.

Wales Online

What life was like in 1982 - the last time inflation was this high

The Independent UK

Liz Truss: Who is the foreign secretary hoping to become prime minister?

Social media savvy ‘human hand grenade’ seen as continuity candidate and currently ahead of Rishi Sunak thanks to questionable tax promises and neo-Thatcherite branding

The Guardian - UK

Dear Liz Truss: I’m woke, not business-minded and a leftwinger. Am I not your type of Jew?

In her vote-chasing message to the Jewish community, the foreign secretary has reinforced age-old stereotypes, says Simon Hattenstone

The Guardian - UK

Sir Ralph Halpern obituary

Flamboyant businessman who transformed Burton Group into one of the most famous retail chains of the 1980s

The Guardian - UK

Like Thatcher, Truss wants radical change – but could she avoid a crisis?

Whether she or Rishi Sunak becomes prime minister, challenge looks as daunting as it did for James Callaghan in 1976

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