The Latest Breaking News from David Gauke

Most of the action at the Conservative conference took place on the fringes, with dozens of prospective leadership bids

Justice secretary says move will not apply to anyone serving a life sentence and those released will be tagged

Will Gillian Anderson play Truss in a film?

The prospect of defeat has liberated the party to lurch further to the right, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

With the party riven by factions and differences on policy, the prime minister has a job on his hands trying to find a coherent way forward

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 former Tory minister exposes the ‘shameful state’ of recent Conservative rule in this brilliantly frank account of dysfunctional government

Chancellor agrees ‘mortgage charter’ to help borrowers but Labour says intervention is ‘weak’

The Liberal Democrats believe they can seize the affluent, pro-remain Conservative heartland at the next election

The prime minister has been accused of attempting a “cover-up” as he tries to block the Covid inquiry’s request for Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages and notebooks.

Many people realise that Boris Johnson is a dishonest chancer who lacks any real convictions, said David Gauke in The New Statesman. Less obvious – at least to those outside Whitehall – is “quite how extraordinarily inept he was at performing some of the basic functions of being prime minister”.…