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UK's Liz Truss still favours tax cuts over direct support on energy bills

Liz Truss, the frontrunner in the race to replace Boris Johnson as British Prime Minister, said on Tuesday she still favoured tax cuts to grow the economy instead of providing direct support to households facing unprecedented rises in energy bills.

Reuters

Plans to slash 91,000 civil service jobs ‘would need cuts to major frontline services’

Proposal would also cost country more than £1bn in redundancy payments, review finds

The Independent UK

Energy bills ‘could rise by £200 more than expected in autumn’

Average energy bill could reach £4,266 in January, estimates find

Evening Standard

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New campaign fighting cost-of-living crisis gains 150,000 members in 24 hours

A CAMPAIGN promising picket lines and rallies across the UK demanding action on the cost-of-living crisis has won more than 150,000 supporters in…

The National (Scotland)

Energy bills to hit £4,266 in January after Ofgem changes price cap rules

Gas and electricity prices will more than double in the coming months

The Independent UK

Farmers call for Truss and Sunak to tackle ‘immoral’ water wastage

Tory leadership hopefuls urged to set out emergency plans as parts of UK face driest conditions on record

The Guardian - UK

Campaign group plans to form mass protest for upcoming Conservative Party leadership hustings in Perth

PerthAgainst Racism wants to form an “all-Scotland festival of opposition to the Tory party” when Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss arrive at the chosen venue

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Molly McCann: ‘Flyweights don’t knock each other out in women’s MMA – I’ve found a glitch’

Exclusive interview: The Liverpudlian has scored stunning knockouts at both UFC London events this year, her profile swelling as she climbs the flyweight rankings

The Independent UK

Met Office issues extreme heat warning for England and Wales as temperatures to soar

THE Met Office has issued an amber warning for extreme heat for parts of England and Wales as a new heatwave looms.

The National (Scotland)

Head of CBI urges Boris Johnson to offer immediate help with energy bills

Tony Danker says waiting until after Tory leadership vote is too late for Britons facing ‘terrifying’ price rises

The Guardian - UK

If the Murdoch press is so panicked about recession, why did it back austerity and Brexit?

As Truss and Sunak slug it out, rightwing papers are waking up to the looming catastrophe, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

New Tory leadership warfare as Dominic Raab brands Liz Truss plans a 'suicide note'

The blue-on-blue attacks hit their lowest ebb yet as the Deputy Prime Minister, Dominic Raab, warned her tax cuts are 'bad politics' that 'could prove fatal'

Daily Mirror

Conservative leadership race: Tory rivals trade new blows over cost of living plans

Allies of Rishi Sunak claim Liz Truss’s tax cut plans would be ‘electoral suicide’

Evening Standard

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak meet members at Tory leadership hustings in Darlington – as it happened

Candidates to replace Boris Johnson take questions amid reports of emergency planning for winter blackouts

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The Independent UK

UK government deleted abortion rights from gender statement ‘to be inclusive of all perspectives’

Liz Truss hosted conference on religious belief but it was overshadowed by diplomatic row about abortion rights

The Guardian - UK

Worried about bills this winter? In Truss’s Titanic economics, only the rich will get a life raft

With a national catastrophe looming, the Tory leadership candidates have adopted a muscular ‘anti-welfare’ stance, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Wales Online

Heat Health Alert comes into force at 12pm and will last for days

The amber heat alert “requires social and healthcare services to target specific actions at high-risk groups”

The Independent UK

Heat health alert to begin as UK prepares to swelter

Tory leadership frontrunner Liz Truss, meanwhile, has weighed in after two water companies announced hosepipe bans.

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The Guardian - UK

Reinstate climate change minister role, says green Tory Chris Skidmore

MP and head of party’s Net Zero Support Group spends much of his time campaigning on climate emergency

The Independent UK

Liz Truss U-turns: All the times her policies have been ‘misinterpreted’

The Tory frontrunner has performed many U-turns, big and small

The Independent UK

Tory leadership - live: Truss tax cuts would not help vulnerable pensioners, Sunak says

Former chancellor Rishi Sunak said he is ‘confident’ he can find extra funds for direct support

Daily Record

Liz Truss 'won't keep Union safe' by copying Boris Johnson stance on independence referendum

Professor John Curtice told the Record that Liz Truss was "kicking the can down the road" if she refused to engage with SNP demands for an IndyRef2.

The Independent UK

What the papers say – August 9

A performing icon’s death and political machinations in the race for No 10 are splashed across the papers.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss tax cut plans are ‘electoral suicide note’, warns Dominic Raab

Deputy PM warns Tory party could be cast into ‘impotent oblivion of opposition’

The Independent UK

Raab: Emergency budget plans from Truss risk being Tory electoral suicide note

The Deputy Prime Minister is a supporter of Liz Truss’s leadership rival Rishi Sunak.

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