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Truss’ desperate bid to save UK premiership lands her in more trouble

Boxed in by market turmoil and a mutinous Conservative Party, British Prime Minister Liz Truss was left with two cards to play: hitting reset on her economic plan, and firing her friend and finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng.

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The great hydrogen gamble: hot air or net zero’s holy grail?

An army of lobbyists is trying to persuade the government of the case for the combustible gas as a valuable weapon in the climate crisis, but questions remain

The Guardian - UK

Mini-budget will likely mean higher interest rates, warns Bank of England governor

Andrew Bailey says UK borrowers can expect to feel impact of Truss government’s tax and spending decisions

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France travel warning as UK visitors told to expect 'disruption'

Planned strike action is expected to take place in France this week

Liverpool Echo

Chris Pitt of First Direct: ‘We’re the best unfound bank in Britain’

The chief executive pulled out all the stops for customers with their mortgages during the mini-budget turmoil. Now he wants to double their number

The Guardian - UK

BMW to axe UK production of electric Mini and relocate to China

Cowley factory on outskirts of Oxford not up to challenge of creating electric vehicles, says Mini boss

The Guardian - UK

Activists in UK court after soup thrown at Van Gogh picture

Three climate activists appeared in a London court on charges of criminal damage after protests including throwing soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting in the National Gallery

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UK is a 'nation of prudes' - as nearly half don't want to see nude male centrefolds

Over half of British women don't ever want to see a nude male centrefold in a magazine - but nearly half of men think they should be brought back

Daily Mirror

Eight in ten UK households failing to recycle basic items - like food and paper

Two in five Brits are still baffled about what can and can't be recycled - and just under a fifth say they can't be bothered, and put everything in the main waste bin

Daily Mirror

Keir Starmer criticises ‘grotesque chaos’ under Liz Truss government

Labour leader says UK is ‘crying out for clear leadership’ and his party ‘must provide it’

The Guardian - UK

Shareholder payouts rose three times faster than UK wages, says TUC

Analysis by unions suggests firms can afford to pay workers more, as handouts have soared £440bn above inflation since 2008

The Guardian - UK

The four new driving laws now in force across the UK

From a total mobile phone ban to low emission zones, don’t be caught out by new motoring rules

The Independent UK

Labour 'threaten to go further' in creating 'hostile environment', says Patrick Harvie

THE Labour Party “threaten to go further” than the Tories in creating a “hostile environment” in the UK,…

The National (Scotland)

Scottish Labour leader declares party ‘ready’ for general election

Anas Sarwar condemned Liz Truss as a ‘lame duck Prime Minister’.

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Why is Russia at war with Ukraine and what does Putin want?

Vladimir Putin’s military assault continues in face of near-unanimous international condemnation

The Independent UK

The naked truth: nearly 7m people in UK describe themselves as nudists, poll finds

‘There’s a huge, hidden enthusiasm for this,’ says president of British Naturism. “Attitudes are changing with taboos and stigma being eroded’

Evening Standard

Banker pay unchained: A bonus for the British economy?

City comment: Jeremy Hunt now has the chance to re-examine the disastrous mini-Budget. He should think twice before scrapping the banker bonus cap.

Daily Mirror

UK's shortest serving prime ministers ranked as Liz Truss in danger of topping them all

The current holder of the dubious honour is George Canning, who was in office for just 119 days before dying of tuberculosis - but Truss has a long way to go to pass him

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Daily Mirror

Humiliated Kwasi Kwarteng was flying 36,000ft over Atlantic when Liz Truss sacked him

The humiliated former Chancellor had been in Washington DC when he was ordered back to the UK, but he'd already been given the boot before his plane landed - not that he knew that

Bangkok Post

BMW moving electric Mini production to China

LONDON: BMW will stop manufacturing its electric Minis in the United Kingdom and move production to factories in China, dealing yet another blow to Britain’s ambitions in battery-powered vehicles, the Times has reported.

The National (Scotland)

Tax rises and spending cuts with ‘difficult’ decisions ahead, says Chancellor

JEREMY Hunt signalled on Saturday his plan to up-end the Prime Minister’s entire economic strategy, in an extraordinary rebuke of the pledges…

Evening Standard

Russian reservists called up to fight in Ukraine ‘having to buy their own body armour’

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) also said in its daily update that ‘endemic corruption and poor logistics’ remained a cause of Russia’s ‘poor performance’ in Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Misfits Boxing UK start time for Astrid Wett vs Keeley and Jay Swingler vs Cherdleys

YouTube stars Jay Swingler and Cherdleys headline an exciting evening of crossover boxing as Misfits Boxing returns tonight

The Independent UK

‘This is the news - our news’: The history and importance of the UK’s Black press

‘It matters to the world because we are the only people who can tell our stories. And, man, our stories. They deserve to be told,’ says journalist Charlie Brinkurst-Cuff

Evening Standard

Jeremy Hunt: Kwarteng made ‘two mistakes’ but PM’s growth plan the right one

Jeremy Hunt rebuked the ‘mistakes’ of the Liz Truss administration in his first interview since taking the job

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