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UK bonds have hit a 25-year high – here's what that means for the economy

It’s been more than a year since the UK economy was thrown into crisis after then-prime minister Liz Truss suggested making a wealth of unfunded tax cuts in her September 2022 mini-budget. But a recent bond market sell-off has now sent borrowing costs rocketing again, pushing the bond market even…

The Conversation

OPINION - Partygate still matters: how the Tories made morality an issue

After 13 years of power and five prime ministers, the Conservatives increasingly appear to be held together by string. The consensus is that the party faces either significant decline or catastrophe at the next general election. Amid the talk of sleaze, incompetence and chaos, what is often missed about post-Covid…

Evening Standard

‘Like a boozy wake’: HS2 and infighting overshadow Tory conference

Rishi Sunak’s hope to present his leadership as a clear change from his predecessors fails to win over a flagging party faithful

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Sunak sparks Tory civil war with scrapping of HS2 Manchester leg

Tory leader’s attempt to portray himself as change candidate at party conference overshadowed by fierce criticism of U-turn

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak’s Tory conference speech goes up in smoke as David Cameron and Liz Truss attack key plans

Former PMs lead open revolt against Sunak over plans to scrap HS2 northern leg and ban smoking for next generation

The Independent UK

The astounding return of Liz Truss: why do so many Tories still love the failed leader?

She left Downing Street with rock-bottom ratings after tanking the economy. But at Tory party conference this week she was impossible to ignore

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak’s speech showed what’s next for the Tories – and it isn’t him

At a chaotic conference, Suella Braverman wasn’t just preparing for a general election, but a leadership battle, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

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Rishi Sunak packages U-turns as challenges to consensus politics – an improbable effort to rebrand as the candidate for change

The party conference speech is traditionally an important moment for political leaders. It enables them to set the agenda, rally the core membership and supporters around key themes, and speak to the wider audience of electors.

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OPINION - Rishi Sunak can be the candidate of change (if you ignore the last 13 years)

Every candidate for high office, from the freshest of faces to the grizzliest of incumbents, seeks to pitch themselves as the candidate of change. This hinges on a cursory understanding of human psychology. Life for a lot of people is tough and when it’s not, it’s tedious. Who the heck…

Evening Standard

Your Conservative party conference cheat sheet

Dance-offs with Priti Patel and Nigel Farage, Liz Truss back from oblivion, Rishi on a cancelling plans spree — Robbie Griffiths reports from the Tory gathering in Manchester

Evening Standard

What are bond yields and why are they at a 25-year high in UK?

Inflation expectations have pushed up government’s long-term cost of borrowing, which is expected to slow economy

The Guardian - UK

Key moments of Sunak’s HS2-cutting, ‘beauty pageant’ of a Tory conference

The Prime Minister struggled to keep his own party under control amid bleak prospects for a general election.

The Independent UK

Search for Liz Truss actor is on as ex-PM gathers new support

Will Gillian Anderson play Truss in a film?

Evening Standard

Bond market sell-off sends UK long-term borrowing cost to 25-year high

Rate tops level last seen after Liz Truss mini-budget as fears of global inflation and US political instability spook markets

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Tory conference unease grows over Sunak and Hunt’s lack of ambition

MPs express bafflement PM has resolved to do so little since ‘steadying ship’ after Truss’s disastrous tenure

The National (Scotland)

'Each other’s best friends': Rishi Sunak's wife introduces him to Tory conference

AKSHATA Murty, the Prime Minister’s wife, made a surprise address at Conservative Party Conference ahead of Rishi Sunak’s speech.

The Guardian - UK

Mad, bad and dangerous to know: we are witnessing the Tories’ final descent into absurdity

This spectacle shows how politics is degraded when power is wielded by a party that is no longer serious about government, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak claims he will fix Britain’s ‘broken’ politics – after 13 years of Tory rule

Despite Partygate scandal, chaos of Liz Truss’s mini-Budget and the crumbling concrete crisis in schools, PM vows he can deliver for UK

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The five biggest issues in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election

THERE are just days to go before voters in Rutherglen and Hamilton West go to the ballot box to elect their next Scottish MP.

The Guardian - UK

From Lady Gaga to Lady Penelope: who could play Liz Truss on screen?

A look at actors who could be in the frame amid reports rights sold for miniseries on former PM’s meteoric rise and rapid fall

The Guardian - UK

Congrats, Rishi: you’ve got a party so dreadful that Nigel Farage has turned you down

Liz Truss’s return, the PM’s HS2 dithering, Mr Brexit himself: no Netflix doc could truly ‘make sense’ of this Tory conference, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Independent UK

Sunak dismisses Truss’s tax cut call as the wrong priority for the country

Rishi Sunak faced questions about his predecessor after Liz Truss attracted a large crowd at the Tory conference.

Evening Standard

OPINION - I’m going to say it — ‘rich man Rishi Sunak’ jibes just would not exist if he was white

So Rishi Sunak is rich and people can’t seem to get over it. Last week the BBC showed the Prime Minister a word cloud which suggested the main thing the public thought about him was that he was “rich”, so rich that they had very few other words on the…

Evening Standard

Priti Patel, Nigel Farage and Liz Truss lead raucous singalong at Tory conference

A GB News boss said the channel would ‘learn their lessons’ from recent ‘challenges’

The Guardian - UK

Braverman suggests support for immigration is a ‘luxury belief’ and claims ‘hurricane’ of mass migration is coming – as it happened

Home secretary says Tories were ‘too squeamish’ in past to deal with immigration properly from fear of being called racist

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