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Digested week: Space for one more in Tories’ brave new world – after a fuss

Most of the action at the Conservative conference took place on the fringes, with dozens of prospective leadership bids

The Guardian - UK

Government to allow prisons to release some offenders 18 days early to ease overcrowding – as it happened

Justice secretary says move will not apply to anyone serving a life sentence and those released will be tagged

The Guardian - UK

Search for Liz Truss actor is on as ex-PM gathers new support

Will Gillian Anderson play Truss in a film?

Evening Standard

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The Tories are running scared, but we should all fear what they may become

The prospect of defeat has liberated the party to lurch further to the right, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

‘No one knows what we stand for’: Tory MPs in despair ahead of Sunak’s crucial conference

With the party riven by factions and differences on policy, the prime minister has a job on his hands trying to find a coherent way forward

The Guardian - UK

I’ve got news for Rishi Sunak: he no longer leads the conservative party

From Braverman’s UN threats to the net zero retreat, the Tories’ lurch to the populist right betrays their own supposed principles, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart review – blistering insider portrait of a nation in decline

The former Tory minister exposes the ‘shameful state’ of recent Conservative rule in this brilliantly frank account of dysfunctional government

The Guardian - UK

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Rishi Sunak forced to acknowledge control of inflation lies with Bank of England

Chancellor agrees ‘mortgage charter’ to help borrowers but Labour says intervention is ‘weak’

The Guardian - UK

The ‘blue wall’ home counties are falling out of love with the Tory party

The Liberal Democrats believe they can seize the affluent, pro-remain Conservative heartland at the next election

The Guardian - UK

Covid inquiry: is the government attempting a cover-up?

The prime minister has been accused of attempting a “cover-up” as he tries to block the Covid inquiry’s request for Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages and notebooks.

The Week

Johnson at 10 review: an ‘authoritative’ and ‘often jaw-dropping’ book

Many people realise that Boris Johnson is a dishonest chancer who lacks any real convictions, said David Gauke in The New Statesman. Less obvious – at least to those outside Whitehall – is “quite how extraordinarily inept he was at performing some of the basic functions of being prime minister”.…

The Week

Senior civil servants vote to take a stand against bullying from politicians

FDA union votes to use ‘all means available’, including ‘targeted legal action’ in wake of Dominic Raab scandal

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss’ ‘deranged’ comeback - all the best comments and reaction to bonkers essay

Liz Truss' bonkers 4,000-word comeback essay has prompted quite a lot of reaction this sunny, Sunday morning. Here's some of the best comments and funniest responses to her comeback bid

Daily Mirror

PMQs: Rishi Sunak told ‘failure to sack Nadhim Zahawi shows how weak he is’ after tax controversy

Rishi Sunak faced a barrage of questions over Nadhim Zahawi’s tax dispute from Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions. Despite the PM’s spokesperson saying last week that Mr Zahawi had already addressed the matter in full, Mr Sunak admitted earlier this week that there are “questions that need…

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Senior Tories up pressure for Nadhim Zahawi to quit over ‘careless’ tax affairs

Former justice secretary and treasury minister, David Gauke, said if he was the Prime Minister he would be “very tempted” to encourage him to stand down

The Guardian - UK

Sunak should press Zahawi to resign, says former Tory minister

Prime minister faces uncomfortable PMQs, with ‘impossible questions’ over ex-chancellor’s tax affairs

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak has never paid a penalty to HMRC, No 10 says, amid growing pressure over Nadhim Zahawi – as it happened

Downing Street releases statement after days of refusing to say whether or not PM ever paid a penalty to revenue body

The Independent UK

Younger voters will never back ‘anti-EU and populist’ Tories, ex-cabinet ministers warn

Michael Heseltine says Brexit will be ’high on the agenda’ if Liz Truss loses general election

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With economy in trouble, UK gets ‘disruptor in chief’ as leader

LONDON — Liz Truss is happy to make enemies. The U.K.’s next prime minister has likened bureaucrats to “gremlins,” insulted domestic and foreign leaders, and said British workers need more graft.

The Independent UK

Ex-Tory cabinet ministers say Boris Johnson is already plotting his comeback

PM brought down by scandal believes Tory party will turn back to him ‘in desperation’

The Guardian - UK

Brexit will make a bad recession even worse. But Sunak and Truss won’t question it

The Tory leadership contenders are pursuing a dangerous nirvana of low taxation while ignoring the damage inflicted by leaving the EU

The Guardian - UK

What do the byelection results mean for the Conservatives? Our panel’s verdict

Former Tory seats have been lost to Labour in Wakefield and the Liberal Democrats in Tiverton and Honiton

The Guardian - UK

Tax rises, handouts, law-breaking: what do the Tories stand for now?

After a week in which Boris Johnson’s character has been at the heart of public debate, Conservative MPs worry about what has happened to their party

The Independent UK

‘Lack of urgency’ from government on cost of living crisis, senior Tory MP says

PM refuses to be drawn on further action government could take

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