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Fears over ‘meltdown Monday’ lead today’s papers as the UK braces for its first national heatwave emergency.

‘Ferocious’ temperatures loom while the Conservative leadership debate is wrung out on the UK front pages of Monday 18 July 2022

Trade minister astonishes rivals by claiming polling shows she is ‘only one that can beat Starmer’

Forget the climate crisis and cost of living – the candidates for next prime minister can only offer personal vendettas, ambition and malice, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The five candidates for Prime Minister ripped apart each other’s records on live TV - here we pick the highs and lows from the evening

Some of the crunch soundbites from the second televised debate.

Tom was in the army. Penny was in the navy. Liz has been abroad a lot. Rishi can be tough … and Kemi is somehow fresh but experienced

Liz Truss‘ tax cut plans were branded “socialism” by her rival Rishi Sunak as the Tory leadership hopefuls clashed in a TV debate on Sunday night.

With the mercury about to hit 40C, Tory leadership candidates turned up the heat in an ITV debate - which descended into personal score-settling. Here are the cattiest remarks, from Rishi Sunak's private school to Penny Mordaunt's 'dangerous' economics