PMQs LVE: Liz Truss faces Keir Starmer in Prime Minister’s Questions – its set to be a tough session for the PM following the mini-budget and U-turns.
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PM Liz Truss will face MPs on Wednesday at noon for her first PMQs since Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget caused chaos in the financial markets.
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Daily Express says Cabinet big guns Jacob Rees-Mogg and Therese Coffey led the calls yesterday, urging colleagues to end the infighting that has marred Liz Truss’s first month as leader.
The Guardian says Simon Clarke, the levelling up secretary, threatens to reignite the feud over housebuilding within the Conservative party with a significant “planning reset” that could water down environmental protections and affordable home requirements across England.
Nadhim Zahawi apologises for economic turmoil after mini-budget The Guardian says The cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi has apologised for the…
Liz Truss faces Conservative backlash over sacking of election guru and potential spending cuts The i says Liz Truss faces…
Tory chair apologises for telling struggling people to just ‘get better-paid job’ The Independent says Conservative party chairman Jake Berry…
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The Metro says Protesters holding signs reading ‘Who voted for this?’ were dragged away after disrupting Liz Truss’s’ speech at the Tory conference.
The Independent says Former prime minister Gordon Brown has warned Liz Truss of a “national uprising” if she fails to uprate benefits in line with inflation, as a fresh Cabinet rift threatened to open up over the matter ahead of her make-or-break Conservative Party conference speech.
Prime Minister Liz Truss will deliver her Tory conference speech today to explain why she thinks the current disruption caused by her economic policies will be worth it.
The Metro says Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is set to make another dramatic U-turn and lay out his plan to get UK debt falling earlier than planned.
The Independent says Liz Truss has refused to confirm whether benefits will be uprated in line with soaring inflation, meaning some of the poorest could face a real-term cut to their income.
The first preliminary hearing of the UK Covid public inquiry will start today following a delay after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Kwasi Kwarteng suggests Liz Truss took decision to U-turn on 45p rate – video
The controversial mini-Budget has stirred up the press and led to some dramatic headlines, government u-turns and finger-pointing.
The Guardian says You know that the first mini-budget hasn’t gone down that well when before you’ve even been in office for a month “resign” is trending on Twitter, and following Monday’s climbdown over the abolishment of the 45p tax rate, social media was awash with people poking fun at the prime minister, Liz Truss, and her beleaguered chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng.
The Sun says LIZ Truss, by her own admission, handled the presentation of the mini-Budget badly.
The Metro says A former Cabinet minister sees Liz Truss as a ‘dead woman walking’ who has ‘lost all credibility’, according to a report.
The Guardian says Kwasi Kwarteng will tighten benefit rules for part-time workers, requiring them to work longer hours or take steps to increase their earnings.
The Guardian says One of Liz Truss’s ministers has said her government’s approach can in “no way” be described as “trickle down economics”, despite the prime minister urging world leaders to join the UK in introducing far-reaching tax cuts.
PM Liz Truss has vowed to match UK spending on military support to Ukraine next year, as politics returns following the Queen’s death.
