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Margaret Thatcher Looms Large in British P.M. Race

Both major candidates to replace Boris Johnson have branded themselves as heirs to the neoliberal icon’s ideological legacy.

Reason

Queen arrives in Scotland for annual summer holiday at Balmoral

Scotland has been a welcome place of sanctuary for the royal family since Queen Victoria's day, where they relax and enjoy country pursuits in the Highlands.

Daily Record

Liz Truss’s tax and spending plans sow consternation among economists

Analysis: experts are lining up to warn that her policies will increase inflation and leave the UK with higher debt

The Guardian - UK

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How Thatcherite are Tory leadership contenders Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss?

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are fighting it out to become the next Prime Minister in a six-week challenge to secure the backing of the Conservative party membership

Daily Mirror

Queen travels to private Balmoral estate for Scottish summer break

THE Queen has travelled to her private Scottish home of Balmoral for the start of her traditional summer break.

The National (Scotland)

Who is Patrick Minford - the economist cited by both Liz Truss and Margaret Thatcher?

The veteran Cardiff Business School professor first came to public prominence in 1981 in the depths of the recession triggered by Thatcher’s monetarist policies

Evening Standard

Analysis-Race for Downing Street drives tax policy split into UK Conservatives

Differences over how to revive Britain's slow-growth, high-inflation economy could hardly be starker within the ruling Conservative Party as the two remaining contenders to become its new leader, and thereby prime minister, clash over tax.

Reuters

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Weeks of Truss and Sunak tearing lumps out of each other should bring nothing but joy for Labour

Whoever wins this race will inherit the social and economic failings of the austerity era – all of which they voted for, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Resurfaced video shows Liz Truss as monarchy-bashing student Lib Dem member

A video has resurfaced showing a teenage Liz Truss railing against the monarchy in a tub-thumping speech at a Liberal Democrats conference.

Evening Standard

Who is Liz Truss and will she make it to be the next Prime Minister?

The Foreign Secretary has a Scottish link and a tendency to speak before thinking in TV interviews and debates.

Daily Record

Truss says claims she modelled herself on Thatcher are sexist and ‘frustrating’

Tory leadership contender suggests male politicans do not face the same comparisons

The Independent UK

Liz Truss rejects Margaret Thatcher comparisons: ‘I am my own person’

Liz Truss has denied she is modelling herself on Margaret Thatcher, labelling such comparisons as “frustrating”.

The Independent UK

2 contenders battle for Conservative votes in UK leader race

The two candidates to become Britain’s next prime minister have begun a head-to-head battle for the votes of Conservative Party members who will choose the country’s new leader

The Independent UK

Liz Truss breaks cover in eyebrow-raising interview as savage Tory blue-on-blue begins

The Foreign Secretary defended 'fantastic' Boris Johnson, admitted she has £30bn a year of unfunded tax cuts and drew battle lines with Rishi Sunak as she finally agreed to a broadcast interview - only after making the final two

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The Guardian - UK

Thursday briefing: The questions that will determine the next prime minister

In today’s newsletter: Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak will now face the Conservative membership – but is she the next Thatcher or is he the one to unite the party’s fractured support?

The Guardian - UK

‘Vote me, get Thatcher’: why the Tories are still obsessed with the Iron Lady

The Conservative leadership candidates can’t stop comparing themselves to their ex-leader – while happily ignoring the truth about her time in office

Asharq Al-Awsat

Liz Truss, a Margaret Thatcher Fan at UK’s Diplomatic Helm

Fans of Liz Truss think she is the new Iron Lady. Britain’s foreign secretary is one of the two final contenders to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and prime minister. Some 180,000 party members will be asked to choose either Truss or former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, with…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Rishi Sunak, Heir Apparent Who Ran Afoul of Boris Johnson

Rishi Sunak was seen as Boris Johnson’s natural heir, until he turned on the prime minister who put him in charge of Britain’s economy. The former Treasury chief, who quit earlier this month after questioning Johnson’s competence and ethics, is one of the two final contenders to replace Johnson as…

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Sunak faces Truss in UK runoff to succeed Boris Johnson

LONDON — Liz Truss ousted Penny Mordaunt in the race to be Conservative leader and the U.K.’s next prime minister, pitching the foreign secretary into a final runoff against former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak.

The Guardian - UK

Who will be Britain’s next prime minister, Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss?

Only two candidates are left in the race to be next leader of the Conservative party. Our panellists tell us who they think will win

Reuters

In final two, Britain's foreign minister Liz Truss burnishes her tough image

If it's not the pictures of her standing atop a tank in a nod to Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher, it's the meme-defining moment when she vented her anger over cheese imports into Britain that made Liz Truss something of a household name.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss, a Margaret Thatcher fan at UK's diplomatic helm

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is one of two finalists in the race to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister

The Independent UK

Liz Truss: From anti-Thatcher demos to heir to Iron Lady’s throne

The highest office in the land is now within grasping distance for the Foreign Secretary.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak, heir apparent who ran afoul of Boris Johnson

Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is one of two finalists in the race to replace Boris Johnson as Britain's prime minister

Manchester Evening News

Inside the Manchester factory where Crunchy Nut Cornflakes were invented

The brand boasts a long history in Manchester, dating back to the 1930s

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