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Labour wins Chester by-election (but about that swing...)

The Labour Party has won the City of Chester by-election with 61.2% of the vote to the Conservatives’ 22.4%. That is a big victory and represents the Tories’ lowest share of the vote in the constituency since 1832. For context, this is a seat David Cameron’s party won in 2010.

Evening Standard

The Conservative Party are polling at their lowest in fifteen years

The Conservatives’ popularity has crashed to its lowest point in 15 years as it battles a major lack of trust over its management of the economy, a new poll reveals.

Evening Standard

Half of Britons think Suella Braverman doing bad job as home secretary

Poll finds only one fifth of Tory voters think Suella Braverman is doing a good job

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Conservatives’ popularity crashes to its lowest point in 15 years

The Conservatives’ popularity has crashed to its lowest point in 15 years as it battles a major lack of trust over its management of the economy, a new poll reveals.

Evening Standard

Lib Dems say quarter of property owners fear losing their home

Ed Davey sets out plans for mortgage protection fund that would provide grants of up to £300 a month

The Guardian - UK

Tories could be plotting move 'even further' to the right amid 'new Ukip' warning from MP

THE Conservatives could be about to lurch even further to the right by cracking down on immigration, critics have claimed as disquiet grows within…

The National (Scotland)

Bury’s longest serving councillor set to avoid being thrown out for failing to attend meetings

Yvonne Wright has not attended a council meeting since May 27

Manchester Evening News

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Tories will find it ‘extremely difficult’ to win election, says polling expert

Prof Sir John Curtice said the Conservatives are still a long way behind Labour despite some recovery under Rishi Sunak.

The Independent UK

Councillor joins Labour after quitting Conservatives

Coun Bev Fletcher, who has been sitting as an Independent on Bolton Council since resigning from the Tories last year, has now joined the opposition

Manchester Evening News

$UK's new PM delays budget, restores fracking ban$

UK's new PM delays budget, restores fracking ban

London (AFP) - In his first full day as Britain's prime minister, Rishi Sunak on Wednesday delayed a crunch budget and rebuffed renewed demands for an early general election as he began trying to rebuild the Conservatives' poll standing.

AFP

Rishi Sunak: is it legitimate for the Conservatives to continue in government without an election? A constitutional scholar explains

It is only right to explain why I’m standing here as your new prime minister.

The Conversation

Have the 'decency' to call a general election, former Tory member tells incoming PM Rishi Sunak

Marc Evans, a nurse, described the Tory party as an 'utter disgrace' and said Mr Sunak does not have a mandate

Wales Online

$Will Rishi Sunak find the fractured Tory party is ungovernable?$

Will Rishi Sunak find the fractured Tory party is ungovernable?

Despite public displays of loyalty by former opponents, the new PM’s honeymoon period is likely to be brief

The Guardian - UK

"He has no mandate": Greater Manchester MPs react to Rishi Sunak becoming the new Prime Minister

The region's Labour MPs are demanding an election as Greater Manchester Tories welcome their new leader

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Rishi Sunak, set to be the UK's first Hindu PM

London (AFP) - Rishi Sunak, the Conservatives' new leader, has capped a stunning political comeback that marks a dramatic rise to power for the son of immigrants from Britain's old empire.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak: the leader who foresaw the financial chaos he now inherits

The former chancellor will become the first non-white prime minister, the first Hindu in the top job and also arguably the richest occupant of No 10.

Al Jazeera

How the UK political crisis affects the opposition Labour party?

For the first time in years, Labour has a realistic chance of coming to power in the next general election.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson tells allies he’s ‘up for’ leadership race as he rushes back to UK

Former PM who quit after a series of scandals vows he is ‘up for it’

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The Conversation

Liz Truss resigns: so why isn't the UK having an election?

Liz Truss resigned as the Conservative party leader just 45 days after being elected to that position. She was forced out by her backbenchers because of a disastrously misjudged mini-budget, concerns about her competency and a catastrophic collapse in the Conservatives’ poll ratings. She is now destined to become the…

The Conversation

There’s something wrong with British politics. It’s called the Conservative Party

The current turmoil in British politics needs to be understood not just as a response to Liz Truss’s short time as prime minister, but as the result of problems within the governing Conservative Party since it came to power in 2010.

Tribune News Service

Truss says she is a fighter, not a quitter as she faces MPs

Embattled U.K. premier Liz Truss said she is “a fighter, not a quitter,” as she faced lawmakers for the first time since firing her finance minister and junking most of her economic program just weeks after announcing it.

Nottingham Post

Broxtowe Borough Council’s phone system criticised as 'abysmal failure'

One councillor said there was a “long list” of officers who constituents could “never get through to”

The Independent UK

Liz Truss' waning power brings political plots, and jokes

This has not been a good week for Liz Truss

The Independent UK

Truss could be gone ‘within days or weeks’, say Tory MPs after PM ditches chancellor

Expectation that new chancellor Jeremy Hunt will rewrite Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget

Wales Online

Welsh Conservatives leader suggests a general election should be called if Liz Truss can't 'regain confidence'

He was speaking before news broke that the Chancellor had been sacked

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