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Energy firms that can't keep bills down should be nationalised, Gordon Brown demands

The ex-PM has a plan to deal with energy bills hitting £4,200 - and says firms that can't meet it should go temporarily into public ownership as a 'last resort'

Daily Mirror

Crunch energy talks today as Tories threaten windfall tax - but Liz Truss doesn't want it

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi and Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng will meet energy firms today and a new windfall tax is thought to be on the table - despite likely PM Liz Truss rejecting the idea

Daily Mirror

Thursday briefing: The weeks that could decide fate of Ukraine conflict

In today’s newsletter: Nearly half a year into the war, and with no end in sight, the coming months could be crucial – foreign correspondent Luke Harding explains why

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People across Merseyside could be 'cut adrift' over winter

Stark warning as calls grow for government to hold emergency budget

Liverpool Echo

Gordon Brown calls for government to drop energy price cap and nationalise firms which cannot lower bills

Former Labour prime minister says ‘several urgently needed decisions’ need to be taken

The Independent UK

Ministers to hold crunch talks with energy bosses over winter price hikes

The Chancellor will press energy company executives to share breakdown of their finances to tackle cost-of-living challenges

The Independent UK

Gordon Brown says energy firms unable to offer lower bills should be temporarily re-nationalised

Former PM calls for energy price cap to be scrapped and new lower prices renegotiated by government

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The Guardian view on Tory infighting: a bad policy auction

Editorial: ‘Blue-on-blue’ bickering makes a lively spectacle – but it gives a narrow, rightwing frame to bigger, broader issues

The Guardian - UK

We must tax profits now, freeze energy prices – and if necessary bring suppliers into the public sector

Without urgent action, families are seeing nothing more than pain now and pain later. There is a way through, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

The Guardian - UK

With Keir Starmer on holiday, Labour treads water on cost of living

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

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss hints at cost of living U-turn as she could give Brits 'targeted help'

The Tory leadership hopeful pointedly refused to rule out cost-of-living payments - seconds after branding them “Gordon Brown style economics I don’t support”

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss: ‘I’ll do all that I can to help those struggling’

Exclusive: Tory leadership frontrunner says she stands ready to offer more support through an emergency Budget if she wins the keys to No 10

Evening Standard

The UK’s cost of living support won’t protect the poorest – here’s what the government should do instead

UK households have faced unprecedented blows to their living standards in 2022. Home energy costs have more than doubled and are threatening to triple, the price of petrol has risen by more than half since the start of last year and overall price inflation is heading for double digits.

The Conversation

Distraught Martin Lewis warns Tory 'bull' on cost of living 'national crisis' risks lives

Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis warned the cost of living is a 'national crisis' like Covid and Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss's plans could 'leave millions destitute and in danger this winter'

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The Independent UK

Cost-of-living talks before Tory leadership concludes branded ‘bizarre’ by Truss

The two Tory leadership candidates have clashed over further support for rising energy costs

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss rejects energy bill help as ‘Gordon Brown economics’

Cost of living crisis dominates latest Tory hustings as foreign secretary rules out tax rise to fund government help

Evening Standard

Tory hustings: Sunak says Truss’s tax cut ‘worthless’ in helping poorest during cost of living crisis

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak spoke before Conservative members in Darlington

The Independent UK

Truss rejects ‘Gordon Brown economics’ as Tory candidates address cost of living

Liz Truss was speaking at a hustings debate where Rishi Sunak said he would target pensioners and the most vulnerable for support with fuel bills.

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Daily Mirror

Liz Truss attacks cost of living 'Gordon Brown handouts' and brands crisis talks 'bizarre'

The Foreign Secretary appeared to make fun of the former Prime Minister who pleaded with the Tory leadership candidates to sit down with the outgoing PM and thrash out an emergency package before a 'financial timebomb'.

The National (Scotland)

Gordon Brown's pro-Union campaign questioned over mystery £250,000 boost source

GORDON Brown’s pro-Union think tank is facing calls to reveal the source of a mysterious quarter of a million pounds in donations.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson complained £145,000 job was like being stuck inside ‘steel condom’

Johnson did not like Foreign Office officials trying to stop him from making controversial comments, says senior Tory peer

Evening Standard

Conservative leadership race: Tory rivals trade new blows over cost of living plans

Allies of Rishi Sunak claim Liz Truss’s tax cut plans would be ‘electoral suicide’

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson urged to end ‘summer of drift’ and draw up cost of living plan with Sunak and Truss

Business group urges PM to meet Tory leadership contenders, while Lib Dems call for energy price cap rise to be ditched

Daily Mirror

Nicola Sturgeon demands urgent cost of living talks with Boris Johnson THIS WEEK

Boris Johnson is facing urgent calls from influential figures including Gordon Brown to help struggling families now and not wait until the next PM is chosen in September.

The Guardian - UK

Laugh? I almost cried at Gordon Brown’s night of Edinburgh fringe comedy

The former PM’s one-off onstage chat with standup Matt Forde belied his dour image. If only he’d shown more of this side of himself to the electorate

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