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Liz Truss vows to 'face down separatists who threaten to break up United Kingdom'

The Prime Minister pledged to "realise on the promise of Brexit" but made no specific mention of the Northern Ireland Protocol

Belfast Live

‘Coup’, chaos and conflict: What we have learned from the Tory conference

Liz Truss’s first Conservative get-together as Prime Minister was not the jamboree she had hoped for.

The Independent UK

Greenwich is having its moment in the political sun

Power postcodes — so hot right now. Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng, the current Prime Minister and Chancellor, famously both live in Greenwich, while Foreign Secretary James Cleverly is just over the hill in Blackheath.

Evening Standard

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Truss promises to make ‘hard choices’ in search for economic growth

The Prime Minister's first party conference speech was also interrupted by Greenpeace protesters

Insider UK

Nicola Sturgeon accuses Liz Truss of 'ranting' during Tory conference speech

The Prime Minister took aim at Labour, the SNP and trade unions in a short speech that received a muted response.

Daily Record

Fresh confusion as foreign secretary can’t say when Kwarteng fiscal plan will come

Cabinet minister can say ‘exactly’ when crucial borrowing details will be set out amid uncertainty

The Independent UK

Liz Truss vows to get UK ‘through the tempest’ of rising energy and mortgage bills

The Prime Minister stressed the need to “stay the course” of her radical reforms

Evening Standard

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How is the pound performing against other currencies?

Sterling rallies slightly after Jeremy Hunt appointed new chancellor

The Independent UK

Truss tanks in poll as YouGov say she is 'more unpopular than Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn ever was'

The new PM has a net favourability rating of minus 59. These are depths not even plumbed by Mr Johnson who hit minus 53 in July at the height of 'Partygate' and two months after publication of Sue Gray's report.

Wales Online

Liz Truss doubles down on tax plan that sent UK economy into freefall

In a short speech to party members, the Tory PM tried to defend a set of proposals that will give more cash to corporations and bankers

Daily Record

Alister Jack defends 'real friend' Douglas Ross as Scottish Tory mutiny brews

ALISTER Jack has come out in defence of his “real friend” Douglas Ross as the Scottish Tory leader battles brewing rebellions in his own party.

The National (Scotland)

Pound to dollar: Why is sterling so weak?

Currency tumbles again after Bank of England warned it is ending support package for pension funds on 14 October

The Independent UK

UK Government urged to give assurance DWP benefits will be uprated next April to match inflation

The Work and Pensions Committee has pressed the Chancellor for a commitment to the benefits uprating for 2023/24.

Daily Record

Britannia unhinged: Inside the 7 October edition of the Guardian Weekly

Truss and Kwarteng’s freefall market economics. Plus: Putin’s bluster

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Gordon Brown warns of ‘national uprising’ if benefits rise falls short

Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng have so far not ruled out such a real-terms cut to benefits.

Reuters

UK's Truss seeks to rebuild her authority at fractious party conference

Prime Minister Liz Truss sought on Wednesday to restore her authority following a chaotic first month in power, urging her Conservative Party to trust her to secure economic growth and steer Britain through "stormy days" ahead.

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss to boast of 'disruption' in make-or-break speech as MORE Cabinet splits emerge

The Prime Minister will say 'disruption' is worth it to grow the economy in her first Tory conference speech as PM - as ex-PM Gordon Brown warned of a 'national uprising' and her Foreign Secretary slapped down her Home Secretary

The Guardian - UK

Rightwing thinktanks run this government. But first, they had to capture the BBC

Why are representatives of these shadily funded groups treated as impartial observers on news programmes? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Insider UK

I can’t promise to insulate Scotland from ‘fiscal recklessness’ - Swinney

The Deputy First Minister is due to lay out his response to the Chancellor's economic plans soon

Evening Standard

Are London house prices about to crash? Warnings of ‘year of pain’ amid rising interest rates and inflation

The property market faces a ‘year of pain’, with a new two-year forecast estimating a 10 per cent drop for house prices. But how low will they really go?

Manchester Evening News

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Pressure has even come from within the Conservative government

The Conversation

Plunging pound and crumbling confidence: How the new UK government stumbled into a political and financial crisis of its own making

The new British government is off to a very rocky start – after stumbling through an economic and financial crisis of its own making.

The Independent UK

Petrol prices: Drivers ‘denied’ 10p cut as major retailers ‘increase profit margins’

Motorists should have benefited from a drop in wholesale prices, the RAC said

Daily Mirror

Humiliated Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss should have the guts to own their blunder

Blaming the pressure of the Queen’s funeral for the Conservatives’ Budget for the Rich is a grotesque bid by the Government to shift responsibility

France 24

Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter takeover is back on

Just two weeks before going to trial, Elon Musk has agreed to follow through with his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. The billionaire entrepreneur had tried to call off the takeover just days after announcing it in April. Twitter shares soared as the news was confirmed. Also in the…

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