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But PM still faces uphill struggle to win the long game heading to next election

MPs such as Kwarteng and Rees-Mogg are resentful of ex-PM’s Brexit stance and see his comeback as a gamble

Ex-PM’s appointment as foreign secretary indicates a move to the centre by Rishi Sunak and is likely to anger the right of the party

Ex-Tory housing minister calls for 442,000 homes a year, while Liz Truss prepares to set out her own plans to cut red tape

Deepfake videos of Sir Keir Starmer have been shared online at the beginning of the Labour party conference in a move that emphasises the threat posed to UK politics by artificial intelligence.

Rishi Sunak declined to comment on speculation that he is drawing up plans to slash inheritance tax.

Grant Shapps said: ‘I just lost a parent and I can understand entirely why people find inheritance tax particularly punitive.’

British PM preparing to channel Margaret Thatcher at party conference in attempt to cast aside Tory turmoil

PM accused of inventing ‘straw men’ and playing politics with climate change

Conservative former Cabinet minister Sir Simon Clarke criticised the Prime Minister for putting up ‘a lot of straw men’.

The Post Office scandal involves miscarriages of justice involving hundreds of innocent people who were wrongly convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting. It has been going on for over 20 years, with the Post Office accused of a cover up after it repeatedly failed to disclose key evidence.