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Rishi Sunak is more authentic and emotional, and Liz Truss more analytical: a linguistic analysis throws up unexpected results

In a series of hustings across the country, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are talking to Conservative party members about what they plan to do if elected as leader of the party and prime minister of the UK.

The Conversation

Conservative leadership hopefuls visit Northern Ireland

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak will take part in hustings in Belfast later to win Conservative Party member votes in the region.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak: I will fix the protocol, restore Stormont and protect your family from rising energy bills

"I will fix the protocol, restore the Northern Ireland Executive, and protect your family from rising energy bills this winter"

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Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak set out stalls on Northern Ireland ahead of Tory leadership hustings

The two candidates to succeed Boris Johnson will make their pitches to Conservative members at a "sold-out" event near Belfast

Belfast Live

Who are the Conservative Party members who will choose the next prime minister?

Tory loyalists tend to come from particular backgrounds, age groups and parts of the country

The Independent UK

Four economists on ways to tackle UK cost of living crisis

Political leaders from all major UK parties have put forward proposals to relieve the cost of living crisis this winter

Wales Online

Truss, Sunak set China in their sights amid UK leadership race

Conservative hopefuls vying to replace Boris Johnson as PM have pledged to confront Beijing if elected.

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How to tackle the UK cost of living crisis – four economists have their say

UK inflation, already at 40-year highs, could pass 13% in October, according to Bank of England forecasts. While wages have not kept pace with inflation, much of the expected squeeze on households and businesses is down to rising energy costs.

The Conversation

Ousted Boris Johnson can take lavish No10 furnishings with him - including gold wallpaper

Anything Boris Johnson paid for himself in a luxury revamp can go to his next home - even £840-a-roll wallpaper - as two huge removal vans parked up nose-to-tail in Downing Street

Daily Mirror

Britain’s Opposition Labor Party Demand Energy Price Cap Freeze

Britain's main opposition Labor Party called on Monday for the energy price cap to be frozen this autumn to help the public deal with another expected surge in fuel bills during the worst cost-of-living crisis in decades. Labor leader Keir Starmer said his party, if in power, would cap energy…

Asharq Al-Awsat

'China threat' emerges in elections from UK to Australia

While inflation and recession fears weigh heavily on the minds of voters, another issue is popping up in political campaigns from the U_K_ and Australia to the U_S_ and beyond: the “China threat.”

The Independent UK

Liz Truss 22 points ahead in race to be Britain's next PM -poll

Britain's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is 22 percentage points ahead of her rival Rishi Sunak in the contest to become the country's next prime minister, a poll of Conservative Party members by Opinium Research showed on Saturday.

Reuters

UK leadership candidate Sunak says scrapping BoE independence would be a massive mistake

Rishi Sunak, the underdog in the race to become Britain's next prime minister, said scrapping the Bank of England's independence would be a mistake that would scare off international investors.

Reuters

Leadership candidates raise thousands but frontrunners’ backers remain a mystery

Suella Braverman received £10,000 from a company owned by a leading climate sceptic.

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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…

The Guardian - UK

Tories face questions over £500,000 of donations linked to bribery-accused banker

Labour asks whether Conservatives will give back funds, and calls for Tory co-chair’s sacking

The National (Scotland)

Tory leadership campaigns linked to climate sceptics, property moguls and tech investors

WEALTHY donors gifted thousands to Conservative Party leadership campaigns, new figures show.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak ‘dug heels in’ to resist changes to Brexit red tape, Liz Truss allies claim in fresh attack

Kwasi Kwarteng and Simon Clarke accuse former chancellor of pushing ‘Labour-lite economic policy’

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The Times of India

I would rather lose than win on a false promise: Rishi Sunak

LONDON: Britain's prime ministerial candidate Rishi Sunak has insisted that he would rather lose the Conservative Party leadership race to replace Boris Johnson than win on a false promise on how he plans to tackle the economic crisis.

The Independent UK

Sunak promises new cost-of-living help worth ‘a few billions’

Pledge falls well short of £15bn-plus which charities and experts believe is needed

Evening Standard

Liz Truss gives strong hint Kemi Badenoch could be next foreign secretary

The Tory PM hopeful spoke to GB News in the former ‘red wall’ seat of Leigh

The Guardian - UK

From the ‘Brexit shredder’ to headless actors – Rishi Sunak must stop these dreadful campaign videos

The #Ready4Rishi campaign has been putting out budget video after budget video. Let’s take a look at the oeuvre so far, says Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson

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

Daily Record

Campaign group plans to form mass protest for upcoming Conservative Party leadership hustings in Perth

PerthAgainst Racism wants to form an “all-Scotland festival of opposition to the Tory party” when Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss arrive at the chosen venue

Evening Standard

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

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