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The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Raab: Emergency budget plans from Truss risk being Tory electoral suicide note

The Deputy Prime Minister is a supporter of Liz Truss’s leadership rival Rishi Sunak.

The Independent UK

Ed Davey calls for next PM to scrap October’s energy bill price cap increase

Lib Dem leader accuses Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak of living in ‘parallel universe’

The Independent UK

Truss to make tackling anti-social behaviour ‘key priority’

Liz Truss reiterated her commitment for police forces to ‘get back to basics and spend their time making streets safer’.

The Independent UK

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Raab warns Truss’s tax measures will be ‘electoral suicide note’ for Conservative Party

The deputy prime minister has supported Rishi Sunak’s leadership bid in a Times column

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak would target Whitehall savings to fund cost-of-living winter help

The former chancellor announced the approach as his leadership rival Liz Truss maintained she is committed to helping struggling families.

The Independent UK

Coming crisis could soon undo any Tory truce on Trussonomics

Analysis: there are deep divisions among the party’s MPs about the leadership frontrunner’s spending promises

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss plans could cost £50bn a year, and will ‘fail to help poorest cope’

Tory frontrunner says tax cuts and spending could cost £30bn, but analysis shows a much higher price

The Guardian - UK

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Figures show North East earns £8,404 less as Tory leadership hustings to be held in region

Northern Powerhouse Partnership think-tank has accused the leadership hopefuls of betraying voters.

Chronicle Live

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

The Independent UK

Ed Davey calls for halt to energy price cap increase to avoid ‘catastrophe’

Exclusive: Lib Dem leader says new PM should let government pay £36bn cost in new ‘energy furlough scheme’

The Guardian - UK

Truss and Sunak still haven’t grasped the magnitude of Britain’s cost of living crisis

Neither has an adequate plan – but a joint announcement of a generous package of help would boost confidence

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the dog days of Boris Johnson’s premiership: crises, which crises?

Editorial: As the Conservative party talks to itself, a chance to grip the challenges of the autumn and winter is being wasted

The Guardian - UK

Northerners earn £8,404 less despite years of Tory promises to 'level-up'

The figures were revealed to the Mirror by the Northern Powerhouse Partnership as the Conservative Party leadership hustings roll into the heart of the Red Wall

Daily Mirror

Plan to axe 91,000 civil servants ‘only possible with cuts to services’

Review casts doubt on Boris Johnson’s claim that frontline services would not be harmed

The Guardian - UK

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The Conversation

Is race an issue for Rishi Sunak? It's a difficult question for pollsters to investigate but the information we do have is telling

A YouGov poll of party members completed on August 2 shows Rishi Sunak to be trailing Liz Truss 31% to 69% in the Conservative leadership contest. A similar poll completed on July 21 had him on 38% to her 62%. She appears to be winning the contest hands down.

Wales Online

The Liz Truss affair allegations that nearly ended her career

The alleged relationship sparked controversy when Liz Truss was selected for a safe Tory seat

The Guardian - UK

I love Cabaret – but watching the Weimar Republic-set musical suddenly feels a little too immersive

The new stage version of the musical is a joy – but today’s spiralling inflation and fierce inequality make it too close to the bone, writes Zoe Williams

Wales Online

Business leaders push for urgent government action to tackle cost of living crisis

Downing Street said Boris Johnson had no plans to introduce major new fiscal measures before the end of his premiership

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The Independent UK

Nicola Sturgeon calls for urgent meeting with PM over cost-of-living crisis

A meeting of the devolved administrations is due next month but the First Minister has called for it to be brought forward.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss vs Rishi Sunak: Where do they stand on women’s issues?

The candidates’ stances on abortion rights and tackling violence against women

The Independent UK

Business leaders join calls for emergency cost-of-living support

CBI chief Tony Danker has warned the Government against a summer of inactivity, following on from Gordon Brown’s plea for urgent measures

The Guardian - UK

Who knows if Truss or Sunak is right on the cost of living crisis – where are all the economists?

The profession seems to have gone AWOL, just when we could do with a bit of modelling on tax cuts v handouts, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak video vowing to shred EU rules branded ‘absurdly stupid and irresponsible’

Tory leadership candidate shares clip of Brussels’ documents going through shredding machine

The National (Scotland)

Education Secretary slams Rishi Sunak's 'cynical' plan to ban certain degrees

The former chancellor has said he would outlaw university degrees which don't increase students' earning potential

The National (Scotland)

'Keep Brexit Safe': Rishi Sunak mocked over 'Apprentice-style' campaign clip

RISHI Sunak has been mocked for a bizarre campaign video in which he shreds piles of EU laws in a pledge to “keep Brexit safe”.

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