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The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Truss has thrown red meat to Tory members – but the public has rather different tastes

Truss’s hard Conservatism and tax cuts are a worry to the Tory left, says Spectator deputy political editor Katy Balls

The Guardian - UK

Calls to increase 'pitiful' £150 disability cost of living payment

People with disabilities will receive a £150 lump sum in September - while other benefits claimants will receive £650 in two payments

Wales Online

New PM’s spending plans must face scrutiny, says Treasury committee chair

Mel Stride says OBR must provide fiscal forecasts as Liz Truss urged to ‘come clean’ on promised tax cuts

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Liz Truss accused of having little understanding of legal aid while Justice Secretary

Criticism comes from a senior Conservative peer

The Independent UK

Treasury told to reveal if it is preparing for Liz Truss’s crisis budget in scrutiny row

Senior Tory says chancellor must help watchdog ‘publish independent forecast’ on economic impact of huge tax cuts

The Independent UK

EDF Energy boss warns 'over half' of UK households could fall into fuel poverty

EDF has warned of a "dramatic and catastrophic winter” as yearly energy bills are expected to rise to more than £3,500 and over half of households are thought to fall into fuel poverty as a result

Edinburgh Live

Liz Truss economic policy ‘more Ted Heath than Margaret Thatcher’, IFS chief says

Comparison is likely to irk Tory frontrunner who has modelled herself on Britain’s first woman prime minister

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Liz Truss is calling on the dinos — Tory Jurassic Park is back

One of the less successful rewilding experiments is the fictional reintroduction of DNA-manufactured dinosaurs in the film Jurassic Park. Yet a remake is underway at Westminster, as the likely Liz Truss-led government plots a return of political dinosaurs.

Evening Standard

Tory candidates set to clash over cost of living at Birmingham hustings

Rishi Sunak’s backers have insisted he will remain in the race against Liz Truss.

The Independent UK

Tory leadership hustings – Birmingham: Liz Truss confirms she will allow new grammar schools – as it happened

This live blog is now closed.

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss accused of having 'sewage on her hands' as discharge 'doubled' after budget cuts

The Tory leadership frontrunner presided over efforts to slash £235m from the Environment Agency's budget when she was at Defra

Daily Mirror

British Sikh activist ‘tortured in India after tip-off from UK intelligence’

Lawyers for Jagtar Singh Johal say he was given electric shocks after unlawful arrest in Punjab in 2017

The Guardian - UK

Who will be in Liz Truss' Cabinet? All the predictions from Suella Braverman to IDS

Tax-slashing free marketeer Liz Truss, who has slammed 'handouts' for struggling Brits, is expected to appoint a string of right-wingers and allies to top jobs now she is Prime Minister

Daily Mirror

Energy use is a ‘decision for individuals’ insist No 10 and Truss allies

Senior Tories rule out asking households to reduce energy use despite planning for winter blackouts

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Tuesday briefing: The mystery of the Moscow car bomb attack

In today’s newsletter: After an ultranationalist’s daughter is killed in Moscow, people in Russia and the west are asking who did it – and what the Kremlin might do next

The Independent UK

Cost of living - live: Sunak says he ‘wouldn’t take a job’ under rival Liz Truss’s cabinet

Sunak says differences with Truss over economy are too great for him to join her cabinet

The Independent UK

Brexit: ‘Urgent’ need for UK-EU protocol deal amid cost of living crisis, warn business chiefs

Plan put foward by Liz Truss will create ‘myriad’ problems, say trade bodies urging ‘swift resolution’

The Independent UK

Truss sets out growth plan for West Midlands ahead of Tory leadership hustings

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak will once again be put to the test by party members during a two-hour event in Birmingham.

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The Independent UK

Liz Truss’s £235m cut to Environment Agency ‘doubled sewage discharge’ – Labour

Raw sewage discharge more than doubled from 14.7 per overflow in 2016 to 29.3 in 2021.

The Independent UK

Truss pledges to put the West Midlands ‘at the heart of our economic revival’

Ahead of a Tory Party hustings in Birmingham, Liz Truss set out her plan to boost growth and drive opportunity across the region.

The Independent UK

Sunak pledges to make UK ‘science superpower’ if made PM

The former chancellor will face off against Foreign Secretary Liz Truss at the latest hustings in Birmingham on Tuesday.

The Guardian - UK

Tory big beasts put careers on line with aggressive criticism of Truss

Analysis: Strength of attacks suggests they come from strong belief that frontrunner’s policies are wrong

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss ‘has sewage on her hands’ over Environment Agency cuts

Exclusive: Truss oversaw cut in funds to tackle water pollution, since when raw sewage discharge has risen

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Liz Truss: a Little Englander PM risks running a Little England

Editorial: The frontrunner to be the next prime minister is winning by widening divides rather than bridging them

The Guardian - UK

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