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Sunak to set out plans to cut NHS backlog in campaign speech

The Tory leadership hopeful will make the speech in Grantham, birthplace of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

The Independent UK

The Political Strategy of "Making the Other Side Better"

Economist Tyler Cowen argues this approach is too often neglected. But is more common than he suggests.

Reason

Rishi Sunak camp says debates against Truss will change Tory members’ minds

Sunak supporters claim Truss will perform poorly at hustings, as former chancellor launches fightback in Grantham

The Guardian - UK

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Rishi Sunak vows to proceed with Channel 4 privatisation if he becomes PM

A spokeswoman for the Tory leadership hopeful said ‘standing still is not an option’.

The Independent UK

If growth were just that easy, Liz Truss, why have the Treasury at all?

Rishi Sunak enters the last weeks of this leadership contest fighting on three fronts: over his tax hikes, with those who think he’s been disloyal and against Liz Truss. Many of the 200,000 Tory members will send their postal votes from early August. Time is against him.

Evening Standard

'Tory Party is stuck in an Iron Layby clinging to divisive, bitter past'

The Tories have no viable future when leadership contenders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak cling to the Iron Lady by professing their devotion to a divisive figure who was booted out of Downing Street in the last century

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak fight over tax cuts as Blue-suited ghost of Thatcher looms

Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak insisted he was the heir to the Iron Lady as he sought to convince Tory members he believed in cutting taxes - while rival Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who has pledged to slash taxes, was forced to deny she was modelling herself on Thatcher

Daily Mirror

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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

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.

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The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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.

Daily Record

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.

The Independent UK

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

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

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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

Daily Mirror

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

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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