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Local elections in England live: polling station in Southampton closes after death of candidate – as it happened

Graham Galton, a Conservative councillor running for Coxford ward, died on Thursday after voting had started

The Guardian - UK

Polls open as Sunak faces local elections test

Polls have opened across England, with Rishi Sunak set to face his first major electoral test since entering No10 just over six months ago.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak predicts a hard night for Conservatives in today's elections

“Good councillors will lose their seats because of all that has happened over the past year.”

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Sunak predicts ‘hard night’ for Tories as he faces local elections test

The Prime Minister’s Conservatives are trailing heavily behind Labour going into Thursday’s polls.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak sends MPs away with a flurry of fibs at PMQs

MPs vanish as Rish! turns PMQs into excruciating session of prime minister’s evasions

The Guardian - UK

Starmer accuses Rishi Sunak of ‘killing the dream of home ownership’

Labour leader castigates PM for dropping compulsory housebuilding targets for councils

The Guardian - UK

Can Rishi Sunak save the Tories? Voting behaviour over time suggests it will take more than personal appeal to win the next election

One of the key findings of research into elections is that there is a close relationship between the popularity of party leaders and support for their parties in elections. The reason for this relates to how people make up their minds when voting. Many people consider issues or draw on…

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The case of the missing bathrobes … what Liz Truss’s latest gaffe tells us about grubbiness and greed

Did a member of the ex-PM’s team pilfer some dressing gowns? If so, it wouldn’t be the worst thing to happen on her watch, but it represents a particular, pernicious form of Westminster entitlement, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Is it time up for Simon Case, the mandarin who’s never out of the media?

The civil service is ‘a team without a captain’, argues Anthony Seldon. But can Sunak stomach ousting Case before the election?

The Guardian - UK

Watching TV in the garden is beyond the pale

Brief letters: Outdoor viewing | AI cancer tool | Liz Truss refund | The age of Charles III | Oath of allegiance

The Guardian - UK

Controversial guests at King Charles' Coronation - former PM, Chinese deputy, wealthy sultan

There will be 2,200 guests packed into Westminster Abbey on Saturday to see the Coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla - but it seems there are some surprising names on the guest list

Daily Mirror

Gove and Hunt, beware: true-blue Surrey is ready to turf out the Tories – and you’re next

An avalanche is coming. The voters I met are abandoning the Conservatives over lying, cheating and Brexit, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss locked in row over ‘£12k bill at Chevening country retreat’

The former prime minister has been asked to pay about £12,000 for costs incurred while she spent time at the Chevening estate last summer.

Evening Standard

Liz Truss disputing £12,000 bill relating to use of Chevening grace-and-favour house

Invoice for ex-PM’s time at Kent mansion when foreign secretary is thought to include sums for missing bathrobes and party business

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The National (Scotland)

Liz Truss contests £12,000 bill from 'use of country retreat'

LIZ Truss is contesting a UK Government bill relating to her use of the grace-and-favour country house she had access to as foreign secretary.

Manchester Evening News

Liz Truss fights back against 'inappropriate' £12,000 Chevening estate bill

The former prime minister maintains that the majority of the invoice does not relate to personal expenses

The Independent UK

Liz Truss contests ‘£12,000 bill over use of Chevening country retreat’

The former prime minister has been asked to pay about £12,000 for costs incurred while she spent time at the Chevening estate last summer.

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss 'hit by £12,000 bill' for Chevening 'parties' including 'lost' bathrobes

The Cabinet Office 'objected to the idea that the taxpayer should foot the bill for what were basically a series of summer parties' held by Liz Truss at Chevening as she prepared for her disastrous stint in No10

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Reuters

UK PM Sunak faces first test of comeback credentials in local polls

Rishi Sunak faces his first big electoral test as British prime minister next week in local polls where the opposition Labour Party hopes to capitalise on a year of chaos for the governing Conservatives, ahead of a national election expected next year.

Evening Standard

Coronation guest list: A who’s-who of everyone invited to King Charles’ big day

Attendees for today’s ceremony include world leaders, foreign dignitaries, and members of the public. Emma Loffhagen charts who has — and hasn’t — made the cut

The Guardian - UK

Truss and Kwarteng sacking of top civil servants ‘damaged government’

Instant removal of Treasury’s permanent secretary potentially worsened mini-budget crisis, parliamentary committee hears

The Independent UK

China carrying out biggest military build-up in peacetime history, says James Cleverly

Cleverly warns that if Beijing invaded Taiwan, it would destroy world trade

The Guardian - UK

Reality is Sunak’s enemy in this endless Tory campaign to defy political gravity

The PM posed as the leader who would finally tackle the serious issues. Now he is trying to stay in power by denying they exist, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Independent UK

Isolating China would be sign of weakness, says Cleverly

The Foreign Secretary also warned that if Beijing invaded Taiwan, it would destroy world trade.

The Guardian - UK

Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian review – the economic anarchy of Liz Truss’s dreams

This timely and important study of investment zones exposes the limitations of the experiments favoured by free-market fanatics

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