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The Latest Breaking News from Michael Heseltine

Sunday with Michael Heseltine: ‘We see a lot of our children and our nine grandchildren’

The politician on reading the papers, exercising three dogs in a golf buggy and listening to bullfinches

The Guardian - UK

Michael Heseltine’s air raid shows why levelling up from the top down is doomed to fail

The Tory grandee has revealed how he reshaped local authority boundaries by pointing at them from an aircraft

The Guardian - UK

From the Guardian archive: some of John Vidal’s greatest pieces

Former environment editor, who has died aged 74, wrote for the Guardian for more than 30 years

The Guardian - UK

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Robert Priddle obituary

Other lives: Senior civil servant who finished his career as managing director of the International Energy Agency

The Guardian - UK

Cabinet split over Sunak’s HS2 ‘gross act of vandalism’

Exclusive: Levelling up secretary Michael Gove and transport secretary Mark Harper ‘very unhappy’ over plan to axe northern leg – first revealed by this newspaper – as George Osborne attacks ‘economic self-harm’

The Independent UK

Tory titans out to derail Sunak over HS2

PM in crisis as top Conservative revolt over plan to scrap northern leg grows

The Independent UK

HS2 may end up as ‘total waste of money’, warns IFS thinktank – as it happened

Comments from Paul Johnson of Institute of Fiscal Studies come as Downing Street hints at delay to work on second phase of rail link

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Scrapping HS2 would be ‘gross act of vandalism’, Osborne and Heseltine warn

The former deputy PM Lord Heseltine and ex-chancellor George Osborne warned the PM not to go ahead with plans to scrap the northern leg of HS2, first revealed by The Independent

The Independent UK

Brexit: UK could rejoin EU as an ‘associate member’

France and Germany in shock move to give Britain access to ‘inner circle’ of European partners – with a ‘permanent, frictionless trading relationship’

The Independent UK

Celebrating 10 years of equal marriage

First same-sex couple to wed toast anniversary of landmark bill as poll reveals sea change in attitudes

Evening Standard

Angela Rayner and Oliver Dowden clash over Conservatives’ economic record

Rising bills, soaring mortgages and plummeting real wages are ‘pushing more families to the brink’, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner warned.

The Independent UK

Lord Clinton-Davis obituary

Labour MP, minister and European commissioner with a special focus on the environment and water pollution

The Guardian - UK

Furious Tories turn against Boris Johnson after ‘bias’ outburst

MPs tell Rishi Sunak that the former PM must not be allowed to stand again, while Johnson ally Nigel Adams quits and triggers third byelection

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson sitting on ‘ticking timebomb’ over new Partygate claims, say senior Tories

Exclusive: Ex-PM now ‘painfully on the rack’, says Michael Heseltine – as former aide gives him 5 out of 10 for morality

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Evening Standard

OPINION - I’m hooked on the no-man’s land in our memories

It was hour eight or nine of a multiday YouTube binge and the algorithm was serving me hit after hit. Newcastle United’s heroic, almost Premier League-winning season. Michael Heseltine deputising for John Major at Prime Minister’s Questions. Monica from Friends declaring herself to be “breezy” following her break-up with Richard…

The Independent UK

Former British army chief dramatically intervenes in government’s Rwanda policy

Exclusive: Lord Dannatt urged the home secretary not to send migrants to a country ‘under the shadow of genocide’

The Guardian - UK

At this rate, Sunak may even repent of Brexit before Starmer does

The blight on living standards makes the case for rejoining stronger every day – and this PM is nothing if not pragmatic

The Guardian - UK

Behind the smile, smart suits and ‘reasonable’ solutions lies Rishi Sunak the authoritarian

‘Technocrat’ is too benign a label for the PM: his administration is proving just as extreme as those of Truss and Johnson, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak’s Whitehall carve up merely rearranges the deckchairs

The prime minister hopes this reorganisation will bring faster growth, but he will be disappointed

The Independent UK

Younger voters will never back ‘anti-EU and populist’ Tories, ex-cabinet ministers warn

Michael Heseltine says Brexit will be ’high on the agenda’ if Liz Truss loses general election

The Guardian - UK

Truss picked ‘cronies off backbenches’ for cabinet, says Heseltine

Former Tory ‘big beast’ says PM needs to ‘appoint ministers who know what the heck they’re doing’

The Conversation

Liz Truss names Thérèse Coffey as her second-in-command – here's how deputies have performed this key role for past PMs

Liz Truss’s cabinet is taking shape, so far with few surprises as the new prime minister names allies to key posts. Much discussion has centred on the diversity of the top team, with Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor and Suella Braverman as home secretary.

The Independent UK

Truss’s Cabinet reshuffle: Key statistics and major milestones

Nearly a third of Cabinet attendees are women – the highest proportion in modern times.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss’s Cabinet reshuffle: Key statistics and major milestones

The UK has its first ever female deputy prime minister.

The Guardian - UK

‘Curse of Heseltine’: how the wheels came off Rishi Sunak’s No 10 campaign

Ex-chancellor was leading frontrunner in the race to succeed Boris Johnson but his dreams soon unravelled

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