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Britain's PM hopefuls promise to get tough on illegal migration

Britain's two contenders to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister promised on Sunday to tackle illegal immigration as a priority, with both backing the government's policy of sending migrants to Rwanda.

Reuters

Liz Truss accused of ignoring British activist on hunger strike in Egypt

Family of Alaa Abd El Fattah say it feels as if foreign secretary has ‘abandoned’ him since she started leadership campaign

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss reminds me of a Tory leader but it’s not Margaret Thatcher

She has personal traits and political characteristics that are strikingly similar to those of Boris Johnson

The Guardian - UK

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The Observer view on how Boris Johnson’s spectre haunts the Tory leadership race

His toxic legacy runs deep in Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss as well as in a party high on populism

The Guardian - UK

Truss pledges to scrap EU rules if she wins race to be UK leader

Liz Truss vowed to scrap all remaining EU laws by the end of 2023 if she becomes prime minister, as she vies for votes with Rishi Sunak in their battle to win the Conservative Party leadership election and succeed Boris Johnson.

Tribune News Service

Boris Johnson urged to revoke resignation as shocking poll shows 85% still want him as PM

More than 7,600 Tory members have signed a petition calling for a vote on whether Mr Johnson’s resignation should be accepted.

Chronicle Live

Top Tory Ben Elliot and donors being considered for gongs in Boris Johnson's honours list

Big ticket donors are being discussed for peerages - many of them members of Mr Johnson’s “advisory committee” of donors who are granted access to senior ministers in return for giving more than £250,000 to the party

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Rishi Sunak ahead of Liz Truss by only a few percentage points after public asked to rate Prime Minister candidates

The results suggest the public are split on the two Conservative Party leadership candidates

Wales Online

Boris Johnson should withdraw resignation, poll says, as 85% want him as PM

It comes as thousands of Conservatives sign a petition calling for Boris to stay

Wales Online

'I am the underdog,' says British PM candidate Sunak

Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday described himself as the underdog in the contest to become Britain's next prime minister.

Reuters

Rishi Sunak praised as ‘charismatic’ and ‘a strong family man’ after speech

Conservative Party members lauded the ex-chancellor following remarks in Grantham, the birthplace of Margaret Thatcher.

The Independent UK

UK leadership candidate Truss pledges to ditch all EU laws by 2023

Liz Truss, the leading candidate to succeed Boris Johnson as British prime minister, promised to scrap all remaining European Union laws that still apply in Britain by 2023 if she wins the Conservative Party leadership contest.

Reuters

Will Britain's Next Prime Minister Champion Free Markets?

Liz Truss promises a tax-cutting, deregulatory model for Britain.

Reason

Next prime minister could be decided by 'non-British' citizens due to loophole in Tory membership

THE next Prime Minister could in part be decided by those without the right to vote in a general election.

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Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss? Polling shows party members want her – but the wider voting public would choose him

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are the final two candidates chosen to go head-to-head in the battle to become the next leader of the Conservative party and, therefore, the next prime minister of the UK.

The National (Scotland)

'Boris bus' set to protest Tory hustings in Perth and elsewhere, peer suggests

A swathe of the Tory party membership are not happy that Boris Johnson was removed as PM - with thousands reportedly lobbying the party chairman…

The Independent UK

Penny Mordaunt’s supporters ‘plotting to stop Liz Truss from becoming prime minister’

‘Fuming’ Tories are reportedly ‘tearing up their party membership’ over the chance of Truss becoming PM

Leeds Live

Liz Truss storms ahead of Rishi Sunak in Tory leadership candidate race, poll suggests

The battle to become the next Conservative leader has been whittled down to just two candidates

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Reason

Margaret Thatcher Looms Large in British P.M. Race

Both major candidates to replace Boris Johnson have branded themselves as heirs to the neoliberal icon’s ideological legacy.

Belfast Live

Conservative members in Northern Ireland on what they think of final two leadership contenders

One NI Conservative member described the leadership battle between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss as a "Hobson's choice"

Leeds Live

Liz Truss ambushed by badger cull protesters at Tory leadership hustings event

The Foreign Secretary oversaw the culling of the animals in a previous Cabinet role

Reuters

UK leadership candidate Truss leads rival Sunak by 24 points - poll

British leadership candidate Liz Truss held a 24 point lead over her rival Rishi Sunak in a YouGov poll of Conservative Party Members published on Thursday.

Irish Mirror

Change of UK leader could herald 'new start' in Brussels-London relationship, says Simon Coveney

'We hope that the new prime minister won’t pursue a strategy of breaking international law and breaking their word to Ireland and the EU'

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have very different visions, but one key similarity

It can be hard sometimes to look past the personality quirks of the final two candidates to be Conservative Party leader and prime minister.

Reuters

Analysis-Race for Downing Street drives tax policy split into UK Conservatives

Differences over how to revive Britain's slow-growth, high-inflation economy could hardly be starker within the ruling Conservative Party as the two remaining contenders to become its new leader, and thereby prime minister, clash over tax.

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