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Rishi Sunak accused of ‘cancelling the future’ with climbdown over HS2

Anger over scrapping of Manchester leg of infrastructure projects risks derailing Tory party conference

The Guardian - UK

HS2 northern leg scrapped – weeks after The Independent revealed Rishi Sunak’s plan to axe it

PM set to make announcement after we first revealed ‘Project Redwood’ talks to shelve high-speed rail link

The Independent UK

Little sign of Tory unity as factions jostle on first day of conference

Rishi Sunak’s hopes of united front flounder with MPs and even ministers challenging policy and jockeying for position

The Guardian - UK

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The business leaders who are paying £3,300 for lunch with Rishi Sunak

Raising money from business leaders and wooing megadonors for cash is a big game at party conference

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Conservative conference: an exercise in diverting blame for failure

Editorial: Without a candid audit of what has gone wrong, Rishi Sunak will struggle to develop a meaningful programme for the future

The Guardian - UK

Pressure on Sunak as his own former levelling up minister calls for HS2 to be finished in full

Dehenna Davison and Jake Berry join backlash against PM’s move to axe northern leg

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak shrugs off concerns that U-turns might make UK a ‘laughing stock’

Prime minister says investors are excited about Britain and that he instinctively understands what the public wants

The Guardian - UK

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Sunak challenged over public view of him as ‘rich’

Rishi Sunak insisted his decisions on net zero showed he understood the impact of policy choices on household finances.

The Independent UK

The Tories meet in Manchester plagued by their delusions, desperation and divisions

Number 10’s desire to stage a display of unity and confidence is threatened with sabotage from the fringe

The Guardian - UK

Team Sunak: can they recast the PM as an agent of change?

Meet the prime minister’s inner circle, charged with bringing about a reversal of fortune

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak promises to use Tory conference to set out long-term vision for UK

The Prime Minister is set to face questions over the future of HS2 and further calls to set out tax cuts while in Manchester.

The Independent UK

Tory turmoil as third of voters desert party and factions launch rival manifestoes

Exclusive poll for Observer reveals Conservatives have lost support in their southern England heartlands and the Red Wall

The Guardian - UK

Nervous Tories implore PM to ‘ignore populist insanity’ and keep slim election hopes alive

This weekend’s Tory Party conference will see the starting gun fired on the race for power at next year’s general election. But Mr Sunak faces an almighty battle, write Kate Devlin and Adam Forrest

The Independent UK

Sunak and Hunt will be ‘out of their minds to cancel HS2’, says Boris Johnson

Former PM tells successor ‘cut the cackle and get on with it’

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The Guardian - UK

I’ve got news for Rishi Sunak: he no longer leads the conservative party

From Braverman’s UN threats to the net zero retreat, the Tories’ lurch to the populist right betrays their own supposed principles, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

Sunak expected to limit powers of councils in England to curb car use

Exclusive: Potential plan to restrict measures such as 20mph speed limits and levying fines from traffic cameras alarms travel groups

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak denies people feel betrayed by wavering over future of HS2

The Prime Minister did not rule out ditching the northern leg of the rail project.

The Guardian - UK

Sunak says he is making decisions for the long term, but that’s his vanity talking. He’s failing and he knows it

The PM is rebranding himself as the man thinking far into the strategic future, because he can do nothing about the present, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Evening Standard

Ed Davey: Tories ‘are clinging to fossil fuels’

The Lib Dem leader set to use party conference speech to take a swipe at Rishi Sunak over eco policies

The Guardian - UK

From the brains behind Brexit: an HS2 for the north that doesn’t actually go there

The Conservatives have turned a promising national upgrade into an absurdity, says writer and journalist Jonn Elledge

The National (Scotland)

SNP challenge Douglas Ross to 'find a climate backbone'

THE SNP have challenged Douglas Ross and Tory MSPs to “find a backbone” and publicly call-out Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

The Independent UK

Cabinet split over Sunak’s HS2 ‘gross act of vandalism’

Exclusive: Levelling up secretary Michael Gove and transport secretary Mark Harper ‘very unhappy’ over plan to axe northern leg – first revealed by this newspaper – as George Osborne attacks ‘economic self-harm’

The National (Scotland)

Rishi Sunak declines to back HS2 to north of England as Tory civil war stirs

Rishi Sunak has insisted he is committed to levelling up despite declining to back building HS2 to the north of England in the face of warnings by…

The Independent UK

PM says he is ‘committed to levelling up’ despite declining to back HS2 to North

Rishi Sunak is thought to be considering scrapping or delaying the leg of HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester in response to soaring costs.

The Guardian - UK

Labour to stand firm on net zero policies and attack cost of Tory retreat

Party will argue green growth is route to lower bills and says Rishi Sunak will leave UK stuck in economic ‘doom loop’

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