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The Latest Breaking News from Rishi Sunak

Boss of HS2 building firm savages Rishi Sunak over scrapping new London station

Mark Reynolds says it will take longer to travel the five miles from Old Oak Common to London than the previous 114 miles from Birmingham

The Independent UK

Labour says Sunak should take blame for soaring HS2 costs as they happened on his ‘direct watch’ – as it happened

Labour says HS2 costs almost trebled while Sunak was chief secretary to the Treasury, chancellor and then PM

The Guardian - UK

Britain approves new North Sea oil drilling in welcome news for the industry but not activists

British regulators have approved new oil and gas drilling at a site in the North Sea

The Independent UK

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Conservative peer says party does not deserve to win next election

Lord Harris, who donated £5,000 to Labour’s Rachel Reeves, criticises Tories over lack of ‘clear vision’

The Guardian - UK

Labour mayors urge Sunak not to scrap, delay or scale back HS2

Regional leaders express dismay at prospect of ditching high-speed rail project’s northern leg

The Guardian - UK

Anger as Rosebank, UK’s biggest untapped oil field, gets drilling green light

Environmental campaigners said the decision showed the government was putting the “profits of oil companies above everyday people”

The Independent UK

Conservatives don’t ‘deserve’ to govern, says Tory donor who gives money to Rachel Reeves

Carpetright founder Lord Harris says Rishi Sunak’s party don’t ‘deserve to get back in power’

The Independent UK

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Morrisons boss to step down; UK approval of Rosebank oilfield condemned as ‘environmental vandalism’ – as it happened

Supermarket names Rami Baitiéh as CEO; go-ahead for Equinor to develop largest oilfield in UK waters outrages campaigners

The Guardian - UK

Five Labour mayors join forces to derail Sunak’s plan to axe HS2

Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham among local leaders in talks with transport chiefs

The Independent UK

Five Labour mayors across UK join forces to urge Rishi Sunak to stay on track with HS2

Sadiq Khan and his four fellow Labour leaders say they have been ‘inundated’ with concerns about the Government’s trajectory

Evening Standard

Wealthiest 1% would get average tax cut of £1m if inheritance tax scrapped

According to an IFS report, the cost of abolishing inheritance tax would be £7bn

The Independent UK

Andrew Gilligan: ex-Johnson adviser said to have Sunak’s ear on HS2

Former BBC journalist who has a gift for persuasion has reportedly always been 100% opposed to rail project

The Guardian - UK

Five Labour mayors across UK join forces to urge Sunak to stay on track with HS2

Mayor of London Saqiq Khan and his four fellow Labour leaders say they have been ‘inundated’ with concerns about the Government’s trajectory.

The Independent UK

HS2: Five Labour mayors to demand PM keeps project on track

On Tuesday, Home Office minister Chris Philp said Mr Sunak was reviewing how the cost of HS2 could be ‘controlled’.

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Scrapping inheritance tax would cost £15bn a year by 2032, says IFS

Thinktank carried out analysis as calls mount among Tory MPs for the tax to be abolished

The Independent UK

Ex-Cop26 president Sir Alok Sharma will not stand at next general election

The Tory MP has held the Reading West constituency since 2010.

The Independent UK

Cop26 chief Alok Sharma becomes latest MP planning to step down at next election

The news comes after Mr Sharma criticised Rishi Sunak’s net-zero climbdown last week

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak’s dithering over HS2 spurs on its critics and supporters

With Tory conference looming and talk of delaying decision to autumn statement, the row could intensify further

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Northern Research Group of Tory MPs signals it may accept delay to HS2

Chair, John Stevenson, says they could back a compromise on phase 2 if ‘Charles line’ preserved

The Independent UK

Labour’s Andy Burnham warns he could sue Sunak government if HS2 axed

‘We’re not going to take things lying down – they will be hearing from us,’ says Manchester mayor

The Guardian - UK

Poor public transport to blame for missed GP appointments

Letters: Margaret Parker says those living in rural areas have to rely on a patchy service to get to their GP surgery or hospital. Plus a letter from Maurice Bates

The Conversation

Rishi Sunak has ripped up decades of cross-party consensus on climate change

The acclaimed 1990 film Awakenings tells the story of a neurologist who discovers a drug which rouses catatonic patients from decades of “sleep”. It’s a true story, based on Oliver Sacks’ 1973 memoir of the same name.

The Guardian - UK

UK ban on American XL bully dogs boosts demand for muzzles

Owners also taking up training classes in readiness for rules requiring breed to be kept muzzled in public

The National (Scotland)

Scots Tory MSP rebels as party praises UK's 'alignment with EU' on climate

THE Scottish Tories have been panned after they asked MSPs to celebrate Rishi Sunak’s climate U-turns for bringing policy further “in line…

The Guardian - UK

Who gains from Rishi’s ‘long-term’ thinking? Not the planet, not the north … not even him

‘Let Rishi be Rishi’, is the new Tory catchphrase. So far, that seems to be code for ‘let Britain be rubbish’ – and Suella Braverman is circling, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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