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Liz Truss economic policy ‘more Ted Heath than Margaret Thatcher’, IFS chief says

Comparison is likely to irk Tory frontrunner who has modelled herself on Britain’s first woman prime minister

The Independent UK

Tory leadership hustings – Birmingham: Liz Truss confirms she will allow new grammar schools – as it happened

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The Guardian - UK

Truss and Sunak urged to end silence on ‘emergency’ of rocketing energy bills

Tories accused of ‘appalling vacuum of leadership’ as new price cap rise looms

The Independent UK

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What is Labour’s plan to freeze energy bills?

Sir Keir Starmer says he ‘wouldn’t let people pay a penny more’ and argues £29bn strategy would save families £1,000 a year and help bring inflation down

The Independent UK

Extra £12bn ‘needed to maintain value of energy bills help’

Paul Johnson, director of the IFS, says ministers are ‘still playing catch up’

The Independent UK

Labour’s plan to cut energy bills ‘may cost £60 billion’

Labour claims plan would protect households from energy bill rise ‘entirely’

Evening Standard

Starmer pledges to freeze fuel bills by extending windfall tax

The Opposition leader contrasted Labour’s ‘robust’ plan with the ‘internal battle’ of the Tory leadership race and ‘lame duck’ Prime Minister.

The Independent UK

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Starmer says government ‘just not good enough’ on cost of living crisis as he defends plan to freeze energy bills – as it happened

Labour leader says policy for a windfall tax on energy is needed to reduce inflation

The Guardian - UK

Starmer says his radical plan to freeze energy bills is needed to cut inflation

Labour leader contrasts his party’s proposal to help households with the inaction of ‘lame duck’ government

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds of bus routes face axe with 'cliff-edge' deadline THIS WEEK - key areas hit

A cut-off date is looming within days for England's bus firms to cut or scrap key routes - as vital government Covid funding runs out in October

Daily Mirror

Councillor encourages students to find "what they love" on results day tomorrow

Children's charity NSPCC Scotland reminds young people that help and advice are at hand

Daily Record

‘Next PM must find billions to help struggling households’

There are strange quirks to the UK’s unwritten (or so no one writes in, uncodified) constitution. Did you know that in the 1990s and 2000s, a by-election was not considered legitimate unless Michael Crick had doorstepped a terrified local candidate?

Evening Standard

Next PM must find 'many more billions' in energy bill help - as hikes branded 'inhumane'

Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) chief Paul Johnson said it was a 'mystery' why Tory leadership hopefuls were obsessing over tax cuts when the country was heading into recession

Daily Mirror

Conservative leadership race: ‘Next PM must find billions to help out struggling households’

Carrying on with the current economic policy is ‘not going to cut it’, IFS chief says

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Sunak defends taking money from deprived urban areas as he faces latest hustings with Liz Truss – as it happened

Candidates face Tory members in Eastbourne; former chancellor, who was filmed saying he tried to divert funds from ‘deprived urban areas’, says it was sensible

The Independent UK

Next PM will have to find ‘many more billions to help households pay soaring energy bills’

Think tank also warns public services will need more investment

Tribune News Service

‘We’re trapped.’ Scores of small bridges damaged in record Eastern Kentucky flooding

CHAVIES, Ky. — For the last few days, Jennifer Myers and William Duff have used her father’s pickup truck to get to their jobs at a nursing home, but he needs it back soon to get to his own job, and they’re not sure what they’ll do after that.

Daily Mirror

Tory leadership candidates unable to say Boris Johnson is 'honest' during TV debate

The five remaining candidates - Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Penny Mordaunt, Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat - are locking horns in a Channel 4 debate in front of vetted 'swing' voters as the race for Number 10 hots up

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Daily Mirror

Brit tourists describe 60ft-high flames amid 'absolutely terrible' wildfires in Portugal

A fire became so dangerous today that hotels were evacuated by Portuguese authorities as it spread from woodland towards the town of Almancil. British tourists also saw their holidays being disrupted

The Guardian - UK

Why the Labour party is praying for the Tories not to vote for Rishi Sunak

In the race for the top job there’s the alumni of Academy Boris – and then there’s the former chancellor, Keir Starmer’s biggest headache, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Tory chancers are turning the leadership contest into a wild battle of extremists

Would-be leaders are trying to woo party members with a dangerous mix of fantasy policies and wild tax cuts, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Reuters

Analysis-Tax-cut talk in UK leadership race adds to inflation angst

Promises of tax cuts from candidates to succeed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pose another inflationary risk which could pressure the Bank of England to raise interest rates more aggressively, cancelling out any potential boost to the economy.

Evening Standard

Best internet memes sparked by Boris Johnson’s resignation

The internet responded to Boris Johnson’s resignation

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson warned against ‘race to bottom on pay’ as rail strikes hit millions of travellers

Prime minister says UK must ‘stay the course’ to prevent wage hikes fuelling inflation

Daily Mirror

Parents of boy saved by transplant send message of hope to tot waiting for heart

Max Johnson's father Paul paid tribute to Terry and Cheryl Archbold, whose 16-month-old daughter Beatrix is desperately ill. The little girl is in the same hospital where Max received his heart in 2017

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