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Truss promises to cut costs and end ‘stale groupthink’ in Whitehall

Tory leadership hopeful Liz Truss wants to save £11 billion a year with her plans.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss is on course for a collision with UK economic reality

LONDON — Liz Truss looks an increasingly strong favorite to overcome Rishi Sunak and replace Boris Johnson as the U.K.’s prime minister. Her next target will be the British civil service.

Tribune News Service

Liz Truss vows to help renters prove they can take on a mortgage

Tory leadership contender said she would “break down barriers” to support people keen to get on the housing ladder

Wales Online

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Liz Truss pledges to help more renters buy their first home

Tory leadership frontrunner wants rent payments to be used as part of mortgage affordability assessments

The Guardian - UK

Truss vows to help renters prove they can take on a mortgage

The Tory leadership contender said she would ‘break down barriers’ to support people keen to get on the housing ladder.

The Independent UK

Foreign Office ‘regrets’ confusion over Nowzad evacuation from Afghanistan

Ministers and officials gave evidence to Afghanistan inquiry in ‘good faith’, and ‘at no stage’ sought to ‘deliberately’ mislead, Government says.

Evening Standard

The Northern Agenda: Handsome is as handsome does

Warning to would-be PMs as Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss prepare to do battle in Leeds

Manchester Evening News

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Liz Truss ‘setting anti-discrimination fight back 30 years’ with civil service plan

Tory leadership favourite under fire over Whitehall shake-up including US-style ’political appointees’

The Independent UK

Nadine Dorries 'pretty confident' she'll be Culture Secretary if Liz Truss becomes PM

One Whitehall source said Nadine Dorries was 'pretty confident' about returning to the plum role in the Department of Culture if Liz Truss beats former chancellor Rishi Sunak to No 10.

Daily Mirror

Starmer on Liverpool, plan for government and writing for The S*n

Labour leader was in the city today and sat down with the ECHO to discuss a range of subjects

Liverpool Echo

The Northern Agenda: Flu outbreak killing seabirds in their thousands

'Unprecedented wildlife tragedy' hits islands off Northumberland coast

Manchester Evening News

What are freeports and why are they controversial?

Eight freeports have already been set up in England, with a further two soon to be operational in Scotland

Evening Standard

Scottish Government in dispute with Whitehall over spiralling £251m bill for new benefits system

EXCLUSIVE: The Record recently revealed the IT costs had soared to over a quarter of a billion pounds - now there is a row over who pays.

Daily Record

Liz Truss promises ‘full-fat freeports’ with vow to cut red-tape for business

The plan comes with fresh promises of reducing regulation and cutting Whitehall bureaucracy

Wales Online

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The Independent UK

First TV head-to-head between Sunak and Truss could have decisive impact on leadership battle

Thousands of Conservative members expected to cast online ballots as early as next week

The Guardian - UK

The Pyramid of Lies by Duncan Mavin review – the disgraced financier who charmed David Cameron

This meticulous study reveals the greed and gullibility of the ex-prime minister whose endorsement of Australian financier Lex Greensill tells us much about how politicians operate

The Guardian - UK

Secrecy of royal wills questioned by senior officials, documents reveal

Papers from 1970s and 1980s warn practice of sealing wills was ‘haphazard’ with ‘slender’ legal basis

Liverpool Echo

Rise and fall of Liverpool Council boss Tony Reeves

15 months ago Tony Reeves was held up as the hero of the troubled city council. Today he resigned. Political editor Liam Thorp looks back on a dramatic time at the top

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The Independent UK

Boris Johnson accused of ‘clocking off’ as he misses emergency meeting on heatwave

Prime minister visits air show as UK swelters in extreme weather

The Independent UK

Labour accuses Tory contenders of abandoning ‘levelling up’ agenda

Shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy will say promises made by Boris Johnson are being forgotten in the race to offer tax cuts.

The Independent UK

Top civil service union calls for public inquiry over Cabinet Office racism

Exclusive: The call follows reports about the issue published byThe Independent.

The Independent UK

Spotlight on Nadhim Zahawi over personal finances after tax investigations surface

Following multiple revelations by The Independent and other newspapers, questions are now being asked over the chancellor’s wealth and how it has been accumulated

The Guardian - UK

The lesson from Johnson’s tenure – British politics needs dragging into the 21st century

The UK’s creaking democracy is in crisis, and neither the Tories nor Labour have the answers to this frightening mess, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Independent UK

Government ‘wasted’ more than £800m choosing single-use PPE over greener alternative

Exclusive: Ministers had option to buy multi-use protective gowns, which would have saved hundreds of millions in taxpayers’ money over two years, estimates presented to government show

The Independent UK

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs under investigation by HMRC

Exclusive: Revelation comes as Mr Zahawi launches bid to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister

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