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Monday briefing: Five ways to tackle the energy bill crisis

In today’s newsletter: In the face of historic hikes, how do plans from key actors stack up?

The Guardian - UK

‘Being an MP was bad for my brain, body and soul’: Rory Stewart on politics, privilege and podcast stardom

He’s been an author, a diplomat, a soldier, a cabinet minister – and still dreams of changing the world. The recovering Tory talks about his friendship with Alastair Campbell, the gaffes that haunt him and his fears about Boris Johnson

The Guardian - UK

Almost one in four plan to go without heating this winter

Almost one in four UK adults plan to never turn their heating on this winter due to the soaring price of energy, new research have revealed.

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We should tax the energy giants and freeze bills for every Scot

In his column for the Daily Record, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar blasts the response of the Tory Government to the prospect of soaring energy bills

Daily Record

Scots can't Truss Liz to act on rising energy bills

Millions of Scots are heading toward financial ruin, says Record View, and the Tory leadership contenders aren't offering any hope.

Daily Record

Truss ‘favours targeted help over support for all’ to ease cost of living crisis

Conservative leadership favourite Liz Truss is said to prefer targeted help for families, but the country remains in the dark over how either candidate will deal with sky-high energy bills

Wales Online

Liz Truss urged to cut VAT to 10% as top Tory eyes tax cuts over direct energy bill help

Liz Truss is reportedly planning to cut VAT rates in half instead of helping households with their energy bills directly - but critics say this will not help with everyday costs

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Hundreds of pipes ‘could be dumping sewage illegally’, investigation finds

Welsh Water was found to have 184 sewage discharge pipes without permits

Wales Online

Nearly a quarter of UK adults plan to keep heating off this winter, poll finds

Findings of survey conducted before announcement of 80% hike in price cap described as ‘national scandal’

The Guardian - UK

'Dismal Liz Truss non-plan for energy bills puts money into pockets of the rich'

Liz Truss has no answer for spiraling energy bills and her only suggestion puts more money in the pockets of the highest earners while destroying the incomes of middle earning families and abandoning the low paid.

Daily Mirror

'Clueless Liz Truss is becoming Boris Johnson without the Old Etonian boorish humour'

Liz Truss is untrustworthy and incompetent and has no plan for the country, she is shaping up to be Boris Johnson without the Old Etonian boorish humour, writes Kevin Maguire

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson ‘to urge Truss and Sunak to keep green investment amid cost-of-living crisis

Britain’s next prime minister must not give up on green energy investments while devising measures to ease the cost-of-living crisis, Boris Johnson will urge.

The Independent UK

Union chiefs call for four more UK bank holidays to reward 'nation of grafters'

UK workers should get four more bank holidays to reward a "nation of grafters" and bring them in line with their European counterparts as it emerges they put in some of longest hours on the continent

Daily Mirror

Hospitals and schools fear staff cuts over energy bills - but still Liz Truss has no plan

Head teachers and NHS bosses have warned they will have to cut staff to pay school and hospital energy bills.

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The Independent UK

Billions more set to be slashed from overseas aid projects, Save the Children warns

Exclusive: Government told to rethink decision to count costs of Ukraine refugees within shrunken budget to avoid ‘unimaginable consequences’

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss rejects immediate direct help for everyone with rocketing energy bills

Allies of Liz Truss insist nothing is off the table but said the Tory frontrunner is focused on tax cuts ahead of immediate universal support for Brits struggling with rising costs

The Guardian - UK

New Tory leader urged to scrap MPs’ break for party conferences amid cost of living crisis

Exclusive: Ministers encouraged to stay at Westminster to devise emergency plans to address cost of living crisis

Evening Standard

People will die this winter if absent Government doesn’t step in, warns Sadiq Khan

‘With bills going up this autumn and winter and wages not meeting the increase in inflation, I really worry,’ Sadiq Khan said

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Wales Online

Liz Truss claimed nearly £5,000 in energy bill expenses but won't offer 'handouts'

The Conservative MP- who is tipped to be the next Prime Minister - said she will lower taxes but will not be giving handouts to those struggling.

The Guardian - UK

Energy crisis puts politics in a radically different light

Letters: Dr Fiona McMillan reflects on whether Jeremy Corbyn’s policies might have found a more receptive audience now than they did in 2019. Plus letters from Iain Rowan, Marcia Saunders, Leonard Freeman and Keith Flett

The Independent UK

Liz Truss rejects help for all facing soaring energy bills as she eyes further tax cuts

‘No decisions have been made’ on other options – just 9 days before foreign secretary expected to take power

The Guardian - UK

Fridges are expensive. This winter I may have to finally turn mine off

I wish I could trade places with Truss and Sunak. Perhaps then they would understand the cruelty of their worldview, says James

The Guardian - UK

Muse: Will of the People review – powerful angst undermined by bombast

Amid an OTT blizzard of musical styles, the English rockers meet doom head on, from the climate crisis to Liz Truss

The Guardian - UK

From crime to the courts: the biggest issues the UK’s new PM will face

Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will have to deal with 20-year high in recorded crime and barristers’ indefinite strike this autumn

The Guardian - UK

Truss’s plans to slash VAT are ‘regressive and flawed’, says Sunak’s team

Conservative leadership candidates clash over how to tackle cost of living crisis as contest enters final week

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