The Latest Breaking News from William Hague

Here are the biggest stories leading Sunday’s front pages.

Former Tory leader says Labour peer Lord Mandelson cannot be UK ambassador to the US and chancellor of Oxford University

The new Conservative leader faces an almost impossible mission to take the party back to power

It’s grim to think the four candidates are the best Conservative politics can offer. Why can’t others be considered, asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Theresa May and William Hague say Tory leadership contenders need to acknowledge the scale of the defeat in July

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Around 250,000 university staff and alumni will vote in the election next month after the current chancellor, Chris Patten, announced his retirement

Perhaps it was because I watched it during the first week of lockdown, but I have a particular attachment to this BBC documentary on House of Lords reform, first aired in February 2000. It is a Michael Cockerell production, so you know it will be good, but it is even better than that.

The vice-president nominee’s workwear is a central conversation on the election trail. It’s not the first time fashion has become political