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Tory leadership - live: Truss tax plans could force cuts to public services, warns Sunak ally

Sunak has said tax cuts shouldn’t be fuelled by a ‘huge borrowing spree’

The Independent UK

One-third of all police in England and Wales to be inexperienced constables on probation because of 20,000 uplift

MP’s warn Boris Johnson’s pledge has ‘focused on entry level officers rather than those with experience’

The Independent UK

Penny Mordaunt’s supporters ‘plotting to stop Liz Truss from becoming prime minister’

‘Fuming’ Tories are reportedly ‘tearing up their party membership’ over the chance of Truss becoming PM

The Independent UK

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Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng on why he is backing Liz Truss as next PM

Need to cut taxes stressed by senior cabinet colleague who acknolwedges Rishi Sunak as a 'strong contender'

Birmingham Post

Liz Truss storms ahead of Rishi Sunak in Tory leadership candidate race, poll suggests

The battle to become the next Conservative leader has been whittled down to just two candidates

Leeds Live

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

Rishi Sunak: Appointing ethics adviser would be one of first things I do as PM

The former chancellor made the pledge during a radio interview.

The Independent UK

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Rishi Sunak vows to bring back Lord Geidt ethics adviser post if he wins race to No 10

‘It’ll be one of the first things I’ll do,’ former chancellor says

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on Tory leadership and democracy: a dangerous deficit

Editorial: The next prime minister will have a threadbare mandate and badly depleted authority

The Guardian - UK

Conservative members in Northern Ireland on what they think of final two leadership contenders

One NI Conservative member described the leadership battle between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss as a "Hobson's choice"

Belfast Live

Factbox-World leaders who contracted COVID-19

Many world leaders and senior officials have contracted COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic more than two years ago. Some, such as Canada's Justin Trudeau and Mexico's Andres Manuel Lopez Obrado, have caught the virus twice.

Reuters

Sex in 1945? There was a war on

Brief letters: Drunken revelations | 77th birthdays | WB Yeats on Boris Johnson | Insanity and the Tories | Know your garden

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson could face byelection if inquiry finds he misled MPs over Partygate

Recall Act could be triggered with Johnson at risk of losing Uxbridge seat, HoC committee report suggests

The Guardian - UK

Tory leadership - live: Liz Truss opens up huge lead over Rishi Sunak in latest poll

A total of 62 per cent of surveyed Tory members said they’d vote for the foreign secretary to be PM

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The Independent UK

Liz Truss defends £30bn tax cuts as ‘affordable’ in bid for No 10

Rival Rishi Sunak was understood not to be forecasting tax cuts until at least autumn next year.

Daily Record

Douglas Ross branded a 'coward' for refusing to admit who he backs in Tory leadership contest

The Scottish Conservatives leader previously called for Boris Johnson to quit Downing Street but he has remained tight-lipped on who should be the next PM.

The Independent UK

Biden joins a lengthy list of world leaders to have caught Covid

From Boris Johnson to Jair Bolsonaro, more than two dozen world leaders have contracted Covid-19

The Independent UK

Liz Truss now leading Rishi Sunak by 24 points in race for No 10, polling of Tory members finds

Foreign secretary also leads ex-chancellor on key metrics such as trustworthiness

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The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson said ‘hasta la vista, baby’ – but is he thinking ‘I’ll be back’?

Few would rule out the prime minister staging a comeback, if only to prove his opponents wrong

The National (Scotland)

Tory leadership hopeful Truss 'frittered' £500,000 on private jets in just three months

TORY leadership hopeful Liz Truss spent £500,000 of taxpayers’ cash in just three months using private government jets, according to reports.

Reuters

UK PM Johnson wishes President Biden a speedy recovery from COVID

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sends his best wishes to Joe Biden after the U.S. President tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, Johnson's spokesman said.

Irish Mirror

Change of UK leader could herald 'new start' in Brussels-London relationship, says Simon Coveney

'We hope that the new prime minister won’t pursue a strategy of breaking international law and breaking their word to Ireland and the EU'

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have very different visions, but one key similarity

It can be hard sometimes to look past the personality quirks of the final two candidates to be Conservative Party leader and prime minister.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson issues lengthy defence of his record in office

The PM used a written ministerial statement stretching to more than 2,500 words to state that voters were ‘right to place their trust in me’.

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss spent £500,000 of taxpayers' cash on private flights in three months

The Tory leadership frontrunner has been accused of "frittering away taxpayers' cash" while families are struggling to pay their bills

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