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British PM candidate Truss boosted by former rival's backing

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss's bid to become Britain's next prime minister got a major boost on Monday when she received the backing of a lawmaker she narrowly defeated to make it to the final two candidates vying to replace Boris Johnson.

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Penny Mordaunt endorses ex-leadership rival Liz Truss to replace Boris Johnson

The Foreign Secretary is the ‘hope candidate’, according to Ms Mordaunt.

The Independent UK

Major boost for Truss’s PM campaign as Penny Mordaunt offers her backing

Foreign secretary is the ‘hope candidate’ in the race to succeed Boris Johnson, says third-placed candidate

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Penny Mordaunt backs Liz Truss in bitter blow for Rishi Sunak

The trade minister said Ms Truss was the ‘hope candidate’ though Mr Sunak stressed he would ‘restore trust’ in politics

Evening Standard

Penny Mordaunt becomes latest high-profile Tory to back favourite Liz Truss

An estimated 160,000 Conservative Party members - around 0.3% of the UK population - are mulling over which candidate will become the next Prime Minister, with high-profile names lining up to support the favourite

Daily Mirror

Voters unimpressed with 'bottom of the barrel' Truss and Sunak choice in Exeter

Speaking to the Mirror hours before a hustings event in the city got underway, people attacked the choice between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss

Daily Mirror

Claims that Tory leadership fight is all but over are premature

Analysis: momentum appears to be with Liz Truss but there are signs that race with Rishi Sunak could be tighter than expected

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Who do the Tory leadership candidates think they are impressing with their spiteful posturing on trans issues?

From Kemi Badenoch on toilets to Rishi Sunak’s war on ‘clumsy’ language, the would-be PMs are using a minority group’s right to exist as a tawdry talking point in their popularity contest, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Truss insists she wants ‘positive’ campaign after Dorries tweet

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries retweeted a doctored image of Boris Johnson as Julius Caesar with Rishi Sunak as a knife-wielding assassin.

The Independent UK

Tax cuts: What have Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss promised?

The two Tory leadership hopefuls have very different views on what sort of tax policy the UK should be pursuing in the short-term, with Sunak suggesting that Truss' cut and borrow plan would be irresponsible

Wales Online

British MPs plan visit to Taiwan as tension with China simmers

Exclusive: Tom Tugendhat likely to lead trip later this year as London’s relationship with Beijing deteriorates

The Guardian - UK

Sunak accuses Truss of ‘blaming Brexit’ for farmers’ woes as battle for Downing Street intensifies

Campaign spokesman claims her ‘true Remainer colours are starting to show’

The Independent UK

Liz Truss’s Oxbridge proposal is the latest vacuous idea from a slapstick Tory race

The ill-thought-out ideas issuing from Britain’s prime ministerial candidates are a cause for alarm, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson to take summer holiday - with only weeks left before he quits No10

The demob-happy Prime Minister is squeezing in a summer break before he is replaced in No10 by either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss in September

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The Guardian - UK

Shapeshifting Sunak’s tax-cutting conversion risks overpromising

Former chancellor takes leaf out of rival Liz Truss’s book but his plans may be too good to be true

Daily Record

Boris Johnson to go on holiday after hosting lavish party to celebrate wedding

Asked who would be in charge while Johnson was away, the Prime Minister's official spokesman said: "It will be the standard pattern."

The National (Scotland)

The firms charging UK shoppers up to 50 per cent more than EU consumers

RETAILERS are charging UK shoppers more than EU consumers for the same products, new research has found.

Evening Standard

Let’s be honest — we have no clue at all about these Tory candidates

It’s hard to read Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss. They don’t tell us much at the hustings. They can’t. If you tell someone the truth, you might alienate them. What we are left with is the candidates, and what they are prepared to tell us, unless you are willing to…

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Evening Standard

Liz Truss in new boost as Tory vote begins

Tory leadership candidates prepare to make direct pitches to Tory members as ballots go out

The Independent UK

Truss vs Sunak: Where do the Tory leadership contenders stand on policy?

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are seeking to woo voters set to decide which of the two will take over from Boris Johnson as head of the Tory party.

Al Jazeera

Who is Liz Truss, the favourite to become Britain’s next PM?

Truss, now foreign chief, remained loyal to Boris Johnson as he faced a rebellion and is promising public tax cuts.

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: £100,000 needed to save Dame Judi Dench’s theatre roof

In Today’s Diary: Dame Judi’s leaky roof / Truss’s focus all on No 10 / TfL to celebrate Mornington Crescent game / Bend it Like Beckham director celebrates Lionesses win

Evening Standard

‘Liz Truss has the right plan that London businesses have been crying out for’

Liz Truss’s bold and ambitious economic plan is just the remedy that we need. She knows that we need to depart from the business-as-usual economic managerialism that has led to our sluggish economic growth.

Daily Record

When the next Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak TV debate takes place and how to watch

The Foreign Secretary and former Chancellor of the Exchequer will go head-to-head for the third time since they made it into the last two of the contest.

The National (Scotland)

Nadine Dorries poses with Geri Halliwell as popularity among Tories PLUNGES

NADINE Dorries’s popularity among Conservative members has nose-dived in recent weeks, according to the latest rankings.

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