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Sunak and Truss care more about their small differences than the crises facing Britain

An exceptional prime minister is needed to steer the country through this perfect storm – but neither of the candidates has risen to the daunting challenges confronting us

The Guardian - UK

‘People are much angrier now’: why Britain is going on strike

New wave of union leaders, such as RMT’s Mick Lynch and Unite’s Sharon Graham, have galvanised workers

The Guardian - UK

Meet Liz Truss’s biggest fan – a man whose blind faith reveals a party increasingly driven by ideology

The end is nigh when Conservative stalwarts put a vision of a free-market new Jerusalem above winning elections, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

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Liz Truss: Who is the foreign secretary hoping to become prime minister?

Social media savvy ‘human hand grenade’ seen as continuity candidate and currently ahead of Rishi Sunak thanks to questionable tax promises and neo-Thatcherite branding

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak compares himself to Thatcher in attack on Liz Truss's tax cut plan

RISHI Sunak said he would not make promises he could not keep when it came to the cost of living crisis, as

The National (Scotland)

Rishi Sunak hits out at Liz Truss over ‘complacent’ economic policies

The former chancellor vowed to prioritise the battle against inflation while his rival advocates tax cuts.

The Independent UK

A former whistleblower explains the dangers of Canada's feeble whistleblowing laws

Canada has had whistleblowing laws since 2007, when the federal government’s Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act (PSDPA) came into force. All provinces have followed suit, most adopting modified versions of the PSDPA.

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Workers’ anger at cost of living as strong as time of poll tax riots, union boss says

Sharon Graham, head of Unite, on picket line with Felixstowe dock strikers, says people could rise up again as they did in the 1990s

The Guardian - UK

Zahawi faces shortest chancellorship since 1970 – and may be glad of it

The ex-vaccines minister appears to be the equivalent of a caretaker football manager, with Kwarteng waiting in the wings

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak questions whether Liz Truss’s tax plans are truly Thatcherite

Sunak says Thatcher would know Truss’s planned tax cuts ‘aren’t a sensible approach’

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak declines to say he would vote for Truss’s tax-cutting budget

Tory leadership candidate argues it would cause an inflationary spiral and damage economy

The Guardian - UK

Levelling up bill includes no funding to make levelling up happen, say MPs – as it happened

Levelling up committee chair says in current form bill is unclear on how to ensure policy becomes reality

The Guardian - UK

Sunak steps up attack on Truss over economic plans

Former chancellor Rishi Sunak defended his economic approach and warned that Liz Truss’ approach was a ‘gamble’ with people’s finances.

The Independent UK

Starmer has a huge opportunity – but he must be bolder if he is to reset British politics

The Labour leader’s idea that the party wins elections only when not summoning the ghosts of socialism past is causing a debilitating timidity, says Guardian associate editor Julian Coman

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Evening Standard

Tory leadership hustings: Liz Truss defends tax cuts proposal amid criticism from Sunak campaign

Leadership candidates clash over cost-of-living crisis at Birmingham hustings as campaign enters its final weeks

The Independent UK

Truss attacks ‘Treasury orthodoxy’ as she promotes tax-cutting leadership pitch

Rishi Sunak warned that millions of households face ‘destitution’ without further support this winter.

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss says she'll divert billions from NHS into stricken social care

The Tory leadership frontrunner has raised fresh questions after vowing to plunge the cash from a £12bn National Insurance rise into social care - despite reversing that rise as soon as she's PM

The Independent UK

Liz Truss says no need for ethics adviser because she knows ‘difference between right and wrong’

‘You cannot outsource ethics to an adviser’, says Tory leadership frontrunner

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The Independent UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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Daily Mirror

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

The Guardian - UK

‘You don’t think strikes are the answer? What is?’ RMT’s Mick Lynch on work, dignity and union power

With the cost of living soaring and wages falling further behind, the union boss has become the face of resistance. He talks about the rail dispute, the stereotyping of working-class people and his clash with Piers Morgan

The Guardian - UK

Sunak effectively rules out serving in a Truss cabinet, suggesting they don’t agree on ‘big things’ – as it happened

Tory leadership candidate says he is focused on race for No 10; energy bosses call for end to battle so new PM can tackle bills crisis

The Independent UK

Channel 4 announces musical about Andrew and revival of Friday Night Live

The slate of programmes are part of Channel 4’s newly announced Truth and Dare season.

Manchester Evening News

What was life like the last time inflation was this high in 1982?

Margaret Thatcher had been almost three years into her first term as prime minister

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