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Tory frontrunner also urged to keep sleaze investigation into outgoing PM open

Analysis: Gordon Brown, Martin Lewis and Ed Davey are the voices being heard, as the opposition is left with the same policy as Sunak

This Conservative leadership contest is getting weirder. It started out straightforwardly enough. Rishi Sunak was the MPs’ favourite (though at no stage did he command anything approaching majority support) with a pitch based on ‘sound money’ and tax cuts soon but not now.

The Government is being urged to take further action as prices are forecast to rocket in October, and again in January.

The number of people saying the former chancellor would make a good prime minister fell over the last week of July.

The two contenders to take over in Downing Street both made pledges to get the long-awaited A1 widening between Morpeth and Ellingham back on track on Tuesday night

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are competing to take over as Prime Minister, but both have very different ideas about how to tacke the cost of living crisis gripping the country

Chancellor says publicity stunt earlier this year was embarrassing

The Wilson family are all that stand in the way of a £250m regeneration project

With voting underway to determine the next Tory party leader — and Britain’s new Prime Minister — both candidates will know the winner faces enormous challenges, perhaps the greatest for a new occupant of No 10 in decades.

Rishi Sunak campaign attacks rival’s approach to cost of living as ‘laughable were it not so serious’