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Across the market towns of Britain the battle for the soul of the right is fierce

The race in rural Louth and Horncastle, a previously unassailable Tory seat, encapsulates Reform’s real threat

The Guardian - UK

Oliver Dowden reportedly reveals preferred choice for next Tory leader – UK general election as it happened

Deputy PM says Victoria Atkins is ‘star’ and is one of only people he could see leading Tory party

The Guardian - AU

Who could replace Rishi Sunak as Tory leader if he loses the election?

Likely contenders for party’s sixth leader in eight years could depend partly on who survives a big defeat

The Guardian - UK

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Health Secretary says Tories would make gender identity a reserved issue

THE UK Health Secretary has said the Conservative Party would seek to weaken the devolution settlement by making gender recognition a reserved…

The National (Scotland)

Trans intervention nothing to do with ‘culture wars’ or leadership ambition, says health secretary

Health secretary Victoria Atkins used the trans debate to open a new front with Labour in the election

The Independent UK

Labour lays into Tory NHS record with hard-hitting social media blitz

Labour claims waiting lists could hit 10 million if the Tories remain in power

The Independent UK

OPINION - Tom Newton Dunn: The race for Tory leader has begun already — and it's a 16-way brawl

“The problem with my dear fellow Tory MPs is they all think they’re Winston Churchill,” a weary Cabinet minister told me this week. “Every single one of them.” Like many in the Conservative Party now, the minister has given up hope over the general election result.

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NHS staff will be banned from showing Palestinian flag, says Health Secretary

Cabinet minister says move will help Jewish people feel safer at work

Evening Standard

Russian cyber criminals behind hospital ransomware attack, says former security chief

Two major NHS trusts were targeted as cyber criminals attacked blood test systems

The Independent UK

Inside the spin room: Behind the scenes of the first debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer

The Independent takes you behind the scenes in the so-called spin room where Labour and the Tories sought to convince the travelling press that it was their candidate that won it

The Independent UK

Victoria Atkins’ media outing for Tories sends the babbleometer off the scale

Hardly seen since Rish! called the election, the health secretary appeared ready for at least five years R&R in opposition

The Guardian - UK

Labour deny promising peerages to get MPs to stand down

THE Labour Party has denied offering peerages to former Labour MPs as incentives to quit and allow allies of Keir Starmer to stand in their…

The National (Scotland)

Labour promises to give bereaved families access to children’s social media ‘as fast as possible’

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said ‘urgent action’ is needed

The Independent UK

UK politics: SNP’s Swinney warns general election will be ‘the biggest challenge for years’ – as it happened

New leader tells activists in Glasgow that they must demonstrate the ‘relevance’ of independence to the cost of living crisis

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New dentists could be forced to work in NHS to tackle England’s ‘dental deserts’

Ministers propose graduates could do ‘several years’ of NHS work or face repaying some training costs

The Independent UK

Labour plans to ‘simplify’ process to change gender

The process would stop the ‘futile and dehumanising’ parts of changing gender, Labour said

The Guardian - UK

NHS must listen to whistleblowers, says health secretary

Victoria Atkins says she has asked officials to look into claims doctors and nurses who have spoken up were mistreated

The Guardian - UK

Home Office has lost contact with thousands of potential Rwanda deportees, data shows

Minister says ‘officers are used to this’, as figures suggest Home Office is in contact with only 38% of people it wants to remove

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Minister says Rwanda flights will start ‘within weeks’ despite no airline named

Health Secretary Victoria Atkins said the Home Office was ‘ready to go’ in implementing the scheme.

Evening Standard

Sunak to join G7 leaders in urgent talks after Iran attacks Israel

Rishi Sunak is expected to join US President Joe Biden on the call on Sunday amid fears of further escalation.

The Guardian - UK

Number waiting over 18 weeks for NHS heart treatment in England rises fivefold

Exclusive: doctors fear some of 163,000 people with serious issues may suffer a heart attack, stroke or die as a result of delay

The Guardian - UK

‘Sunak has failed on the NHS’ says shadow health secretary as waiting list figures remain high – as it happened

Prime minister has ‘missed his own targets to cut ambulance and A&E waits’, says Wes Streeting as England waiting list figures remain near record levels

The Guardian - UK

Senior Labour figures seeking to water down plans to decriminalise abortion

MPs due to have free vote on proposal but some in party have privately expressed concerns it goes too far

The Guardian - UK

Junior doctors in England vote to continue striking until mid-September

BMA members overwhelmingly back further stoppages and overtime bans in long-running pay dispute

The Guardian - UK

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: ministers doing ‘next to nothing’ to tackle obesity

Celebrity chef clashes with health secretary over what he calls government’s lack of obesity strategy

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