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Wisdom of foreign secretary’s criticism of first minister likely to be focus of leadership contest’s only event in Scotland.

Our school system favours the privately educated – so it’s no surprise that the sector inflated grades last year, says award-winning teacher Phil Beadle

Inside 10 Downing Street nothing is stirring. Boris Johnson has, in effect, checked out and the staff in the building are waiting for the next incumbent. We are in the midst of a leadership contest which, thought it has hardly seemed to start, appears destined never to end. Eventually, on September 5,…

In today’s Diary: Gove going to The Times? / Iannucci’s Partygate poetry / Noel Clarke’s new script / Stars at the showjumping / The Johnsons talk sewage

Truss cannot deliver £50bn tax cuts and support packages without pushing debt to dangerous levels, says Tory leadership rival

The former chancellor’s team said the Foreign Secretary’s plans could force public finances into ‘serious jeopardy’.

The public health measures Britons lived under dominated our lives but have since faded from memory

Treasury officials drew up the radical plan as one way of cutting energy bills for the most vulnerable - but a former aide branded it 'one of the most demented ideas I've ever seen'

The attack on the author of The Satanic Verses has been universally condemned. It has not always been thus