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OPINION - How does Liz Truss keep losing to a lettuce? I'm starting to feel sorry for her now

Imagine, for a moment, becoming haunted by the shadow of a salad vegetable. Not an exciting salad vegetable, like a radish, or even a suggestive salad vegetable, like a courgette. Just a plain old common-or-garden lettuce. Since her historic 49-day tenure as prime minister, Liz Truss’s comparative lettuce has refused…

Evening Standard

Welcome to the Liz Truss school of free speech: you can criticise anyone – except her

Those defending the right to be offensive want a safe space for themselves while shutting down dissenting voices, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

Former Tory minister Therese Coffey applied for job in Labour government

Liz Truss ally applied to for job advertised by the Treasury, but was rejected from role

The Independent UK

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Inside the Liz Truss book talk disrupted by a lettuce banner

‘I’m disgusted,’ said one audience member

Evening Standard

Furious Liz Truss breaks silence on viral lettuce prank after storming off stage

The politician’s premiership famously lasted less time than a lettuce in 2022

Evening Standard

Liz Truss leaves stage over ‘I crashed the economy’ lettuce banner

Former PM says ‘that’s not funny’ when remote-controlled banner is unfurled behind her at event in Suffolk

The Guardian - UK

'That's not funny': Liz Truss storms off stage after hilarious lettuce banner stunt

LIZ Truss has stormed off stage at a speaking event after a hilarious stunt which saw a banner with a lettuce appear whilst she was talking ...

The National (Scotland)

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Thérèse Coffey was turned down for Labour Treasury job

UK director of European development bank reports to Rachel Reeves, who has been critical of previous government

The Guardian - UK

Ending sexual violence on public transport is ‘absolute priority’, says minister – as it happened

Louise Haigh speaks out after figures showed a 50% increase in incidents in the last two years

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss rages at lettuce banner and says prank ‘was not funny’

The former prime minister dubbed the group behind the prank, Led by Donkeys, ‘far left’ accusing them of attempting to ‘suppress free speech’

The Independent UK

Labour MP who beat Liz Truss reveals why she was slow-clapped on election night

Terry Jermy says he is ‘quite disappointed’ with the former PM’s behaviour since

Evening Standard

Digested week: Liz Truss’s unintentional comedic turn at Edinburgh fringe

A crowing flash-in-the-pan PM and Jimmy Carr’s life lessons from the Oompa Loompas

The Guardian - UK

‘I worry about populist politics’: Mel Stride says even progressive voters should want a strong Tory party

Leadership contender says the Conservatives need to recover to ensure Britain does not lurch into ‘negativity and division’

The Guardian - UK

ITV presenter either fails to recognise or totally ignores former PM Liz Truss

‘That’s Liz Truss, isn’t it?’ his colleague could be heard saying in the studio

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Six of the best political shows you need to see at this year's Fringe

THE Edinburgh Festival Fringe has officially launched, with more than 3500 shows planned across the month.

The Conversation

Why Rachel Reeves can’t seem to make her ‘£22bn black hole’ narrative convincing

Rachel Reeves had hardly stepped down from the dispatch box to make her first big statement as chancellor of the exchequer before facing a furious backlash. She had claimed to have discovered a £22bn hole in public finances upon taking office and was using it to explain why the new…

The Independent UK

Liz Truss, Musk and JK Rowling weigh in on Olympic boxing controversy to spread false anti-trans rhetoric

Carini’s reaction has led to an ‘unfair’ social media pile-on against Khelif

The Guardian - UK

Failed State by Sam Freedman review – how to fix Britain

Even the best governments can’t bring about change in a broken system, according to this urgent plea for reform

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Evening Standard

The real Kemi Badenoch: key revelations from a new tell-all book

“Blue Ambition: The Unauthorised Biography of Kemi Badenoch” by Lord Ashcroft is out now

The Guardian - UK

Who are the Conservative leadership candidates?

Which Tory MPs will be taking part in the three-month contest to succeed Rishi Sunak?

The Independent UK

6 UK lawmakers are running to lead the Conservative Party after its crushing election defeat

Six British lawmakers have announced they are running to lead the defeated Conservative Party

The Guardian - UK

Fear of a Truss repeat should not deter Reeves from rewriting spending rules

Labour has enough goodwill with City to increase debt if the money is used for key infrastructure

The Independent UK

Robert Jenrick: Tory leadership candidate most feared by Reform wants nothing to do with Nigel Farage

Sources say Reform sees right-wing leadership candidate Jenrick as the biggest threat

The Guardian - UK

Nato members, IT woes, and more than a little Liz Truss – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

Evening Standard

Who is Tom Tugendhat? Tonbridge MP slams UK Government's riot response

The 51-year-old is determined to be the next Conservative prime minister if he becomes the new Tory leader

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