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The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Half of Tory councillors do not believe Jenrick or Badenoch can win next election

Poll finds 15% not planning to vote in leadership contest – far more than in Truss v Sunak contest in 2022

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss’ think tank publicly shames Kemi Badenoch for not answering questions

Liz Truss’s think tank Popcon asked the two Tory leadership finalists 12 questions - but only one of them answered

The Independent UK

No matter who Tory members choose, the party has a mountain to climb in 2029

The candidates each garnered about a third of fellow MPs’ votes, but the fracturing of British politics presents bigger problems, says Conservative peer Paul Goodman

The Guardian - UK

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Parliament feeds endless election speculation

The release of the parliamentary calendar for 2025 shows when we might expect the next federal election, and social media companies could escape a youth ban if they can provide a ‘low-risk’ platform.

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The idiot’s apostrophe, West Wing words and 55,000 Bibles – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves warned up to £25bn of tax rises needed to avoid austerity

Rachel Reeves’ first budget could be ‘the most consequential since at least 2010’, the IFS said

The Independent UK

Turnbull on set with Stormy Daniels, News Corp’s ‘recess’ gongs, and where’s Abbott meeting Liz Truss?

In this week’s Tips and Murmurs, we try to snag a date with Lachlan Murdoch, and share more FOI absurdity.

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Labour needs £25bn a year in tax rises to rebuild public services, warns IFS

Thinktank says tax increases in budget will be necessary even if Rachel Reeves changes fiscal rules

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves’s potential borrowing plan risks repeat of Truss mini-Budget meltdown, warns financial expert

Downing Street dismissed the concerns as the Institute for Fiscal Studies said the prospective borrowing plan is ‘very uncertain’

The Independent UK

UK Conservatives narrow their leadership race to 3 as a new front-runner surges

Conservative lawmakers in Britain have ejected former Security Minister Tom Tugendhat from the party leadership contest

The Independent UK

Minister denies government in disarray despite departure of Sue Gray

John Healey says Labour ‘getting on with job’ after chief of staff quit less than 100 days into new government

The Guardian - UK

Vigils, protests mark October 7 anniversary

One year on from Hamas’ attacks on Israel, October 7 vigils will be held across the country, and the government is threatening a double dissolution election as it reintroduces its Help to Buy bill.

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Confused and conflicted: Tory party’s future hangs in the balance after divided conference

The four leadership candidates strutted around Birmingham last week like celebrities, but members seem unimpressed – and MPs think whoever wins might not even last until the next election. How do the Conservatives move forward?

The Guardian - UK

Wealthy, white and rightwing: the Tory members holding the party’s future in their hands

The electorate for the Conservative leadership contest likes a winner, but lately has had trouble picking one

The Guardian - UK

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Blue plaque erected outside east London Tesco to honour lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss

Daily Star's lettuce given mock heritage plaque after outlasting Truss's premiership

The Guardian - UK

Starmer defends UK ceding control of Chagos Islands amid Tory criticism

PM says deal has secured future of US-UK military base as Conservative leadership hopefuls play blame game

The Guardian - UK

‘Blue plaque’ at Walthamstow Tesco honours lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss

Star of Daily Star’s web stunt given fake heritage mark after proving itself less perishable than Truss’s premiership

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson’s biography still blank on government website amid pressure to include ‘sleaze and scandal’

Former Labour PM Tony Blair’s entry descibes him as having ‘enormous charisma, arguably the finest opposition leader of modern times’

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The Independent UK

Diego Garcia blame game deepens as Liz Truss hits out at Boris Johnson for island ‘surrender’

Exclusive: Labour said they had no choice but to sign the deal because of the legal mess left by the Tories

The Independent UK

Blame Sunak for Tory election drubbing not me, says Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson believes that the Tories might have won the election this year if they had stuck with his agenda

The Guardian - UK

Fibs and failures in the Tory party and beyond

Letters: Jeremy Cushing on the lies that politicians are forced to tell, David Diprose on a catalogue of failure in British political leadership, plus letters on Kemi Badenoch and Liz Truss

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson’s Unleashed: A memoir that’s twisted, sour and full of yet more lies

In his shameless and predictable 772-page account of events, the former PM forgoes the truth to paint a preposterous picture of himself as a man of destiny, too good for his own good

The National (Scotland)

Tory MSPs fume as John Swinney brings up new leader's Liz Truss support

TORY MSPs reacted with fury as their new leader was slammed for his support for the “discredited” former prime minister Liz Truss at his first…

The Guardian - UK

Cursed ships, unlucky turkeys and a chainsaw incident – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

The Tories are deluded to think they’ll be back in power in 2029. Here are three economic reasons why

Labour’s squandering of its political capital has given hope to the right. But Britain’s voters want a leftwing agenda, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott

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