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The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Labour announces plan to freeze energy price cap with reinforced windfall tax

Keir Starmer says people won’t pay ‘a penny more’ and that plan would reduce inflation

The Guardian - UK

Starmer vows to extend windfall tax to freeze family fuel bills

The Labour leader promises a £29 billion support package to deal with a ‘national economic emergency’.

The Independent UK

It’s time we woke up to Liz Truss’s crass delusions

Letters: The Tory leadership candidate should focus on real-life existential threats rather than undermining civil servants, say Rupert Huxter and Amanda Power, while Vivienne Jackson condemns her interpretation of ‘Jewish’ values

The Guardian - UK

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How damaging has Tory leadership contest been to the party?

Analysis: slurs traded between Truss and Sunak camps look hard to live down, though voters may have bigger worries

The Guardian - UK

70 charity bosses issue bombshell plea as vital services 'overwhelmed'

In a letter to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, the leaders of dozens of charities, including the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Age UK, the Children's Society and Macmillan Cancer Support, warned parents will have to choose between heating and feeding their children

Daily Mirror

'China threat' emerges in elections from UK to Australia

While inflation and recession fears weigh heavily on the minds of voters, another issue is popping up in political campaigns from the U_K_ and Australia to the U_S_ and beyond: the “China threat.”

The Independent UK

Government must ‘overrule nimbys’ on new reservoirs to combat drought, says infrastructure tsar

Call for UK ministers to act comes as environment secretary considers ‘national grid for water’

The Independent UK

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Britain’s opposition Labour Party demand energy price cap freeze

Britain's Labour Party called on Monday for the energy price cap to be frozen to help people deal with another expected surge in fuel bills, putting pressure on the Conservative government as Britons grapple with the worst cost-of-living crisis in decades.

Reuters

Call to Tory leadership contenders to protect vulnerable as bills soar

Seventy charities have sigh an open letter to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak urging them to double support to low-income households.

The Independent UK

Nostalgia for Boris Johnson as Tories lose enthusiasm for Liz Truss

This week’s hustings show many members are unenthusiastic about Sunak or Truss – and might even prefer the current PM

The Guardian - UK

Treasury drawing up new scheme to ‘cut energy costs by £400’

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has asked officials to draw up a multibillion-pound package to reduce the price cap from January

Evening Standard

Ministers admit 34 hospital buildings in England have roofs that could collapse

Exclusive: Renewed fears ceilings at affected hospitals could suddenly collapse, injuring staff and patients

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss could cancel £400 cost-of-living energy bills discount for richer Brits

All Brits are due to get £400 off their soaring energy bills between October and March - but a key ally of the likely PM said it was 'odd' and should be 'revisited'

Daily Mirror

Like Thatcher, Truss wants radical change – but could she avoid a crisis?

Whether she or Rishi Sunak becomes prime minister, challenge looks as daunting as it did for James Callaghan in 1976

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Truss may stop high earners getting £400 energy bill payments, ally hints

Chief secretary to Treasury Simon Clarke says it is ‘pretty odd’ that wealthier people will benefit from payments

Daily Mirror

One woman 'betrayed' by state pension shake-up 'dies every 14 minutes'

Leaders of the WASPI campaign have called on Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak to change their mind and deliver justice after being "dismissive" during their campaign - following "unforgivable" failings by the Tory government

The National (Scotland)

All Under One Banner cancels pro-independence Perth protest

ALL Under One Banner (AOUB) has had to call off a planned pro-independence protest in Perth this week.

Daily Mirror

Tories prefer Boris Johnson to Sunak or Truss - and BOTH lose to Starmer, polls show

Liz Truss has a 22-point lead in the Tory leadership contest - but more than half her backers want Boris Johnson to stay on, as speculation mounts the PM could attempt a comeback

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The Independent UK

Tory members prefer Boris Johnson to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, poll finds

Signs of ‘Johnson nostalgia’ among both party members and 2019 Tory voters

Daily Record

Nicola Sturgeon playing 'political games' with plan for independence referendum, claims Liz Truss

Tory leadership favourite Liz Truss has launched another attack on the SNP ahead of a party hustings in Perth this week.

The Independent UK

Treasury ‘draws up plan to cut £400 from energy bills in January’

Lending scheme proposal comes as Liz Truss considers cutting existing support for ‘high earners’

The National (Scotland)

Boris Johnson and allies plotting Downing Street return if Liz Truss fails

BORIS Johnson and his supporters are planning a return to Downing Street before the next election if Liz Truss “implodes” as Prime Minister,…

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss’s economic plan is ruinous nonsense with no reference to reality

Nothing in her pledges will foster the growth that this country so urgently needs

The Guardian - UK

How to Lose an Election Two Years Early – there’s no happy ending in this Tory romcom

Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss will be leading a government that has little appetite to solve the economic crisis or even win the next election

The Guardian - UK

As Putin’s war spreads panic across Europe, Ukrainians must fear a stab in the back

Locking up Putin is the only hope of a resolution. It’s a strategic aim the West should energetically pursueRussia-Ukraine war: latest updates

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