Truss ‘hints at’ adjusting business rates to help those requiring energy help | Sunak warns of risk that markets will ‘lose faith’ in the UK economy under his opponent | Johnson says post-Brexit Britain ‘will bounce back’ and that he won’t be in the next government | Mikhail Gorbachev, last president of the Soviet Union, dies at 91
Truss faces backlash over ‘regressive’ plans to cut VAT | Tories fear limiting help on energy bills will lead to catastrophe | Paul Goodman: Truss will be lucky to make it back with a workable majority
Truss ‘plans to halve VAT’ to ‘spare families thousands’ | Johnson urges his potential successors not to ‘give up on green energy’ | The Foreign Secretary will declare China an “official threat” for the first time, if she wins
Truss “considers five per cent cut in VAT” | Increasing the Income Tax personal allowance is “another option” | Johnson warns successor against going “wobbly” on Ukraine
Ofgem raises the energy price cap to £3,549 | Truss plans ‘big package’ to help with energy bills | Johnson urges Biden, Macron, and Scholz to ‘stay strong’ on Ukraine in the face of surging costs
Energy 1) Kwarteng in crisis talks with bosses to freeze bills | Energy 2) Putin to blame for UK’s high prices, says Johnson on surprise visit to Kyiv | Energy 2) Putin to blame for UK’s high prices, says Johnson on surprise visit to Kyiv | Alarm over Truss ‘raid on NHS’
Johnson tells Zelensky the UK will ‘never recognise’ Russia’s seizure of Crimea | The Foreign Secretary tells the latest hustings that social care should get more of ‘NHS billions’ | She is attacked by Sunak over her plans to curb the Bank of England’s independence
Truss backs out of budget but vows tax cuts are still on… | …as allies insist energy use is a ‘decision for individuals’ | Nick Fletcher MP: Foreign Secretary can hold former Labour seats like mine | Foreign Secretary poised to plunge UK economy into ‘inflation spiral’, says rival
Truss ‘hints’ at more support for families and small businesses if she wins | Sunak’s supporters accuse her of ‘trying to avoid scrutiny’ over budget | Swing voters would rather Johnson had not left office, research suggests
Sunak only five per cent chance of winning, says Curtice | Blame Putin, Zahawi advises next PM | Whitehall caution is frustrating bid to boost energy supply, Zahawi claims | Labour wants recall of Parliament
Malthouse puts ‘Government on war footing’ so new leader deals with cost-of-living crisis | City of London regulators to face shake-up under Truss | Trimble’s widow says ‘his legacy will be safe’ with Foreign Secretary as prime minister | Michael Howard: Only Sunak can lead Britain out of this crisis and win the next election
Both candidates rule out second Scottish independence vote | Sunak turns on Truss over ‘moral’ duty to ease energy bills | Truss: Royal Navy will continue to tackle migrant Channel crossings | Leaked audio reveals Truss said British workers needed ‘more graft’
Sunak wants reform to fight groupthink in civil service | Truss wants to make No 10 ‘economic nerve centre’ if she becomes premier… | …and to give Sturgeon’s critics protection to scrutinise SNP failures | Johnson moves out of Downing Street to spend the rest of his premiership at Chequers
Starmer blueprint for energy price freeze based on ‘illusion’ | Former Afghan presidents mark anniversary of Taliban rule | Truss sticks with cap on social care | Truss plan to make No 10 ‘economic nerve centre’
Plan to cut extra £400 off fuel costs “Households would see their energy bills cut by an extra £400 this winter under Treasury proposals for a government-backed lending scheme for suppliers. Nadhim Zahawi, the chancellor, has asked officials in the exchequer to work on a multibillion-pound package which would lead to a reduction in the energy […]