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Rishi Sunak mocked for boasting about scrapping HS2 from private plane

The prime minister was accused of having a ‘breathtaking lack of self-awareness’ for posting the picture alongside a promise to ‘boost our transport’

The Independent UK

Sunak’s spreadsheet solutions for Britain are a product of his ego

The PM’s messianic zeal to dismiss consensus – over HS2, health, education – echoes the errors of the Thatcher years

The Guardian - UK

‘I just don’t think he cares’: Workington Tory voters’ verdict on Rishi Sunak

My research group spoke to 2019’s first-time Tory voters in Cumbria, seen as embodying Boris Johnson’s realignment

The Guardian - UK

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Rishi Sunak’s risky rhetoric has alienated my party – and left the door open to Keir Starmer

A significant number of Tory members and MPs do not want this version of conservatism, says former Conservative MP Justine Greening

The Guardian - UK

Under Sunak, can the right-wing Conservatives win another UK election?

Party, which held a divisive conference this week, has been in power for 13 years but is struggling in opinion polls.

Al Jazeera

Rishi Sunak knows the end is nigh, but has no clue how to build a decent legacy. He should ask me

It may be too late for his party. But from council tax reform to social care, there’s still time for the PM to rescue his reputation, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Minister defends No 10 claim that HS2 decision had not yet been taken despite prerecorded announcement - as it happened

Video of Rishi Sunak announcing the axing of the HS2 Manchester leg was filmed in No 10 before he travelled to conference

The Guardian - UK

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‘Like a boozy wake’: HS2 and infighting overshadow Tory conference

Rishi Sunak’s hope to present his leadership as a clear change from his predecessors fails to win over a flagging party faithful

The Guardian - UK

Key takeaways from Rishi Sunak’s Tory conference speech - HS2, smoking ban and A-levels axe

PM was hoping to brush off days of party infighting and speculation about the future of HS2 with a pitch to fix Britain’s ‘broken’ politics

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak announces scaling back of HS2 in Tory conference speech

PM makes expected announcement axing Manchester leg of rail link as he attempts to portray it as positive

The Guardian - UK

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rallies his Conservatives by saying he's ready to take tough decisions

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has told his Conservative Party he's not afraid to make tough decisions for long-term change

The Independent UK

Tory conference unease grows over Sunak and Hunt’s lack of ambition

MPs express bafflement PM has resolved to do so little since ‘steadying ship’ after Truss’s disastrous tenure

The Guardian - UK

What time is Rishi Sunak’s conference speech today? And how can you watch it?

The PM will use his speech to criticise 30 years of a ‘broken’ system incentivising ‘the easy decision, not the right one’

The Independent UK

Sunak scraps Manchester HS2 leg, plans to stop children today ever legally smoking and says A-levels to be replaced – as it happened

Prime minister says HS2 move will release £36bn, that he will raise smoking age by one year, every year and announces five-subject qualification

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Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak to pitch himself as leader to ‘fundamentally change the country’

The Prime Minister will use his Conservative conference speech in Manchester on Wednesday to criticise 30 years of a ‘broken’ system

The Independent UK

Most voters think Sunak is doing a bad job on his priorities – poll

Satisfaction with Rishi Sunak’s performance on his five priorities has fallen since May.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak claims he will fix Britain’s ‘broken’ politics – after 13 years of Tory rule

Despite Partygate scandal, chaos of Liz Truss’s mini-Budget and the crumbling concrete crisis in schools, PM vows he can deliver for UK

The Guardian - UK

Sunak to tell Tories of Britain’s broken politics amid chaotic conference

Prime minister faces claims that after 13 years in power, many of the problems he highlights are of his own party’s making

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The Independent UK

Sunak to rail against 30 years of politics and present himself as a reformer

The Prime Minister is widely expected to axe the northern leg of HS2 in his Tory conference speech.

The Independent UK

Sunak poised to make ‘incredible gaffe’ by axing HS2 in north but saving Euston link

No 10 will be accused of ‘shafting the north’, warns Tory mayor – as northern leaders warn PM his legacy would be ruined

Evening Standard

OPINION - I’m going to say it — ‘rich man Rishi Sunak’ jibes just would not exist if he was white

So Rishi Sunak is rich and people can’t seem to get over it. Last week the BBC showed the Prime Minister a word cloud which suggested the main thing the public thought about him was that he was “rich”, so rich that they had very few other words on the…

The Guardian - UK

Braverman suggests support for immigration is a ‘luxury belief’ and claims ‘hurricane’ of mass migration is coming – as it happened

Home secretary says Tories were ‘too squeamish’ in past to deal with immigration properly from fear of being called racist

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak refuses to make ‘premature decision’ over HS2

PM declines to reveal if Manchester to Birmingham line will be scrapped amid speculation over soaring costs

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak set to scrap HS2 Manchester leg as Tory mayor leads backlash

The Treasury declined to rule out plans being drawn up surrounding the axing of the route from Birmingham to Manchester

The Guardian - UK

Business chiefs who criticised Labour in 2015 turn on Sunak after green U-turn

Exclusive: Bosses who signed letter eight years ago now highly critical of PM’s plans to roll back net zero policies

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