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The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Sunak ramps up promises to tackle cost-of-living crisis

Former chancellor says people ‘need reassurance now about what we will do’ to tackle the burden inflicted by rising bills.

The Independent UK

UK energy bills ‘set to cost two months’ wages’, ministers warned

TUC calls for October energy price cap rise to be cancelled as chancellor tells firms to invest ‘extraordinary profits’

The Guardian - UK

Do not let windfall tax run beyond 2025, energy chiefs tell PM candidates

Offshore Energies UK wrote to both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.

The Independent UK

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'Tories are pandering to small group of wealthy members as country faces disaster'

Neither Rishi Sunak nor Liz Truss offer any solutions to the problems facing Britain and are instead focusing on pandering to a small and wealthy group of Tory members

Daily Mirror

Millionaire Rishi Sunak accused of 'dressing down' after wearing shoes with hole in sole

Former chancellor Rishi Sunak, previously accused of being out of touch, was pictured wearing shoes with holes in amid claims he is purposefully dressing down in fight to be PM

Daily Mirror

Truss tax plans could put millions at risk of ‘real destitution’, says Sunak

Candidates to be next prime minister clash over how to tackle energy crisis at hustings in Cheltenham

The Guardian - UK

Sunak warns Truss plan could put vulnerable at risk of ‘destitution’

Foreign Secretary insists cutting taxes is key, but former chancellor say his rival’s plan won’t help pensioners and those on very low incomes.

The Independent UK

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Liz Truss promises to tackle cost of living crisis at Cheltenham hustings

Liz Truss warned against ‘taking money off people in taxes and then giving it back as benefits’ during the hustings in Cheltenham

Evening Standard

Liz Truss's tax cuts could leave the poorest Brits 'at risk of destitution', Sunak warns

The Tory leadership hopeful said the Foreign Secretary's economic plans would fail to help pensioners through the energy price crisis which would be a 'moral failure' for Conservatives.

Daily Mirror

Truss putting millions of vulnerable people ‘at risk of real destitution’, says Sunak

Former chancellor blasts foreign secretary’s focus on tax cuts as ‘moral failure’

The Independent UK

Liz Truss appears to forget where she is at Conservative hustings

Foreign secretary tells Cheltenham audience they are in Derbyshire

The Independent UK

Truss 2, Kwarteng 164: wide variance in ministers’ declared meetings

Analysis also finds Priti Patel was only minister to register receiving hospitality at Tory party conference

The Guardian - UK

The Mancunian Way: He had friends all over

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Manchester Evening News

‘It doesn’t matter who takes over’: Cheltenham unswayed by Tory leadership race

Locals say voters disillusioned by Boris Johnson are unlikely to be won back by new leader

The Guardian - UK

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US and allies should move to protect ‘freedom of navigation’, says Taiwan envoy

Kelly Wu-Chiao Hsieh called for operations to uphold the ‘median line’ in the Taiwan Strait in response to China’s military exercises

The National (Scotland)

RMT take pay protest to Scottish Tory HQ and demand UK ministers 'keep out' of talks

It comes as the RMT are due to hold two days of strikes next week amid the dispute over pay, conditions and jobs

The Guardian - UK

Police failures, soaring waiting lists, pool closures: one day’s news in Tory Britain

Look at the condition of Britain’s public services and despair – this is where the ‘small state’ gets you, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Britain is sliding towards an energy precipice. So where are its leaders?

Gordon Brown’s solutions highlight a vacuum that extends beyond the Tories and to the party he once led

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The Conversation

Gordon Brown economics versus Liz Truss tax cuts: a new twist in the battle to resolve the UK’s cost of living crisis

The ongoing Conservative Party leadership hustings haven’t seen much agreement between candidates, but they have resulted in the creation of a new political narrative: “Gordon Brown economics”. Foreign secretary Liz Truss explained away her rejection of cost of living “handouts” for households with the phrase. But even as she indicated…

Wales Online

Boris Johnson asks energy firms to act 'in the national interest' as prices surge

The Prime Minister has urged energy companies to help vulnerable customers but has said no action will be taken until his replacement takes office

Daily Record

ITV Loose Women's Denise Welch slams 'juvenile' politicians while discussing Nicola Sturgeon

Loose Women panelist Denise Welch hit out at 'child-like' politicians as she talked about the recent jibes between Tory leadership hopeful Liz Truss and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Evening Standard

Britain has no government – and multiple crises

Britain doesn’t really have a government at the moment. In summers past, this wouldn’t be much of a problem. But the crises are congealing. And waiting until a new prime minister is warmly ensconced in Number 10 is a disaster waiting to happen.

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Boris Johnson urges power companies to act ‘in the national interest’ to ease cost of living pressure

The outgoing Prime Minister did not, however, announce any new immediate help for hard-pressed families

The Independent UK

UK meets energy firms but no help yet for hard-hit consumers

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and senior ministers have held inconclusive talks with energy companies amid mounting pressure to help people cope with soaring gas and electricity prices

The Independent UK

Suella Braverman accepted leadership campaign donation from prominent climate sceptic

Attorney general warned that stopping carbon emissions could mean ‘net zero growth’

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