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Glum Sunak supporters hold out for gamechanging gaffe from Truss

With Tory members seeming to tolerate a series of missteps, the frontrunner is on course for No 10 – barring a ‘spectacular foul-up’

The Guardian - UK

Margaret Ferrier must look in the mirror and do the right thing, it's time to go

Record View says her constituents and democracy are being done a disservice by the undignified insistence of carrying on as an MP.

Daily Record

What the papers say – August 20

The NHS dominates the front pages at the start of the weekend.

The Independent UK

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Michael Gove quits frontline politics a month after being sacked for 'disloyalty'

The former levelling up secretary said he did not expect to be in government again in a piece for The Times in which he criticised Liz Truss' leadership campaign

Daily Mirror

Gove backs Sunak and says Truss ‘on holiday from reality’

Ex-minister warns foreign secretary would put ‘safeguarding the stock options of FTSE 100 executives’ before nation’s poorest

The Independent UK

Former UK minister Gove backs Sunak, says he is quitting frontline politics - The Times

Former British cabinet minister Michael Gove on Friday endorsed Rishi Sunak for prime minister and announced an end of his frontline political career, he said in an op-ed in The Times.

Reuters

Rishi Sunak would ban new smart motorways to end ‘war on motorists’

The former chancellor also said he would clamp down on rogue parking fines.

The Independent UK

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Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak tear into "miserabilist mayor" Andy Burnham during Manchester Tory leadership hustings

Both candidates made their pitch to over an audience of over 1,000 local party members in the city tonight - and took the opportunity to attack Mr Burnham's record

Manchester Evening News

Michael Gove brands Liz Truss plans as ‘a holiday from reality’ as he endorses Rishi Sunak

Michael Gove has branded Liz Truss’s campaign a “holiday from reality” as he announced that he would back Rishi Sunak as party leader.

Evening Standard

Liz Truss mocks BBC to sidestep question about controversial report she co-wrote

The Tory leadership favourite evaded answering a question about the Back to Black pamphlet by suggesting the BBC does not get ‘facts right’.

The Independent UK

Michael Gove says Liz Truss tax plans 'holiday from reality' as he backs Rishi Sunak

The former Tory cabinet minister also says he does not expect to return to frontline politics, saying it was the 'privilege of my life' to serve three prime ministers

Daily Mirror

Michael Gove backs Rishi Sunak and says Liz Truss is on ‘holiday from reality’

The former Cabinet minister suggested the Foreign Secretary’s proposals would put ‘the stock options of FTSE 100 executives’ before the poorest.

The Independent UK

Millionaire Rishi Sunak bills himself as the 'underdog' in cringeworthy video at Tory hustings

Former chancellor's introductory video at Manchester hustings features a voiceover, claiming: "Britain loves an underdog"

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss brands Manchester’s Andy Burnham a ‘miserabilist mayor’

Ms Truss targeted the Mayor of Greater Manchester in her speech at Friday’s Tory hustings in the city.

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Angela Rayner: Greater Manchester residents will get £1k off bills under Labour as cost of living crisis is now national emergency

'The Tories have lost control. Inevitably, it is working people that are paying the price for their failures'

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: Liz Truss personally supported cuts to NHS and doctors’ pay

Article by Tory hopeful arguing NHS ‘cannot be put on pedestal’ shows she fully backed 2009 cost-cutting pamphlet

The Independent UK

Truss vs Sunak news – live: Leadership frontrunner branded ‘on holiday from reality’

Rivals to face Conservative members at GB News event

The Guardian - UK

UK energy bills crisis could set back health equality by decades, say experts

Chancellor told failure to act would hit services as poverty, cold and missed meals increase sickness rates

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The Independent UK

Three-quarters of MSPs should support independence before new vote – Tory peer

The Scottish Government has asked the Supreme Court to determine if a draft independence Bill is within Holyrood’s powers.

Daily Mirror

'As PM Boris Johnson vanishes, our sad failing nation heads into the abyss'

Brian Reade says crisis-hit Britain is currently rudderless with the PM absent and the two candidates hoping to take over from him possibly even worse than Boris Johnson

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak takes swipe at Liz Truss over absence from farming hustings

The Foreign Secretary is instead set to meet the National Farmers’ Union on September 1.

Manchester Evening News

Rishi Sunak accuses Andy Burnham of 'failing' to get a grip on crime in Greater Manchester - he's come out fighting...

The former Chancellor said he would empower local councillors to hold "failing" mayors to account

The Guardian - UK

Who better than Liz Truss to lead a country whose own sewage laps at its shores?

There are just two weeks left in a leadership contest that has been going on since sometime in the early Mesozoic period, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Independent UK

Grant Shapps threatens to impose new working terms on striking rail staff

Transport secretary steps up battle with unions, saying ‘That is the direction this is moving in now’

The Independent UK

White House sees Liz Truss as ‘Boris loyalist’ and just a continuation of Johnson government - report

Officials say Truss is ‘likely to continue the policies and tone of Johnson’s government’

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