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Kingswood Conservative MP Chris Skidmore to stand down at next election

His constituency is being split in two

Bristol Post

Rishi Sunak warned he has only ‘six months’ to get a grip as Tory rebellions grow

PM faces ‘real danger’, warns Conservative ex-chairman – as MPs revolt over wind farms, housebuilding and crackdown on overseas students

The Independent UK

Senior Tories demand Sunak ditches ‘mindless’ crackdown on overseas students

David Willetts, Jo Johnson and Chris Skidmore say embattled PM’s move will hit economy and levelling up

The Guardian - UK

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Tory MP Chris Skidmore stepping down to focus on clean energy

The Kingswood MP will step down at the next general election

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak’s climate tsar latest Tory MP to announce exit plan

Chris Skidmore follows Dehenna Davison in announcing he will stand down at the next election

The Independent UK

Full list of 36 Tory MPs who didn't vote on fracking ban as Liz Truss faces rebellion

The government descended into total chaos last night with reports of swearing, shouting and manhandling in parliament as the Conservative party and Liz Truss loyalists desperately clung on

Daily Mirror

Crunch Commons vote on fracking descends into farce

More than 40 Tories fail to back Liz Truss’s government amid allegations MPs were manhandled

The Guardian - UK

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A4174 Avon Ring Road will have 'noise traffic camera' installed to catch loud drivers

"For too long local residents have been plagued by inconsiderate and reckless drivers"

Bristol Post

Truss’s policy on environment seems to be: don’t think about it

The RSPB, National Trust, green farmers and anti-frackers all got it in the neck at the Conservative conference

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss appoints green Tory Chris Skidmore to lead net zero review

Former energy and climate minister will look for the quickest ways to reach the emissions target

The Guardian - UK

Tory MP begins ‘net zero tour’ of UK to highlight benefits of action

Chris Skidmore urges new PM to ignore ‘tiny vocal minority in Westminster’ arguing against climate target

The Guardian - UK

MPs call on Liz Truss to hold to net zero target after campaign pledges

Exclusive: 29 MPs and peers urge new PM to recommit to target after her campaign promised to expand oil and gas production

The Guardian - UK

Green Tories back Johnson’s call for successor to invest in renewables

Outgoing PM to warn against focusing on short-term energy solutions in one of his final speeches

The Guardian - UK

Thatcherism is an obsolete ideology – but it’s the only one that Sunak and Truss have

The Tories see fresh thinking as a luxury, so their leaders are sticking with an orthodoxy that’s well past its sell-by date, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Evening Standard

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

The National (Scotland)

Blow for Rishi Sunak as supporter defects to Liz Truss campaign

LIZ Truss's campaign has claimed to be in talks with other potential defectors from Rishi Sunak’s camp after an MP switched sides.

The Guardian - UK

Sunak accuses Truss of major U-turn after she says she will do ‘all I can to help struggling households’ with fuel bills – as it happened

Tory leadership contender says rival had previously dismissed direct support as ‘handouts’

The Guardian - UK

Reinstate climate change minister role, says green Tory Chris Skidmore

MP and head of party’s Net Zero Support Group spends much of his time campaigning on climate emergency

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The Guardian - UK

British ‘idlers’: how a 2012 attack on UK’s work ethic could haunt Liz Truss

Tory leadership frontrunner says she did not write infamous passage in Britannia Unchained, but the book’s whole tone is now jarring

The Independent UK

Keep national insurance rise to boost social care wages, say Tory MPs

Social care workers can be paid less than dog walkers in some areas and need to be more highly regarded, a report says.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss odds-on to replace Boris Johnson as Tory leader, say bookmakers

Foreign secretary now more likely than not to be next PM, betting sites suggest

The Independent UK

Tory members don’t care about net zero ‘because 90% will be dead’, Conservative MP says

Chris Skidmore admits survey putting climate emergency at bottom of priority list is ‘rather depressing’

The Independent UK

All Tory leadership candidates confirm commitment to net zero

All five Tory leadership candidates have now announced their support for net zero after Kemi Badenoch became the fifth on Monday.

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch backs net zero in Tory leadership climate U-turn

MP joins the four other candidates in saying they would not unpick UK’s environmental commitments

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on July weather: here comes the dangerously hot sun

Editorial: Reports of record-breaking heat are made more alarming by the possibility of a prime minister who wants to weaken climate goals

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