Wallace backs Truss – and accuses Sunak of ‘abandoning his post in Cabinet’ | The ex-Chancellor backed a reintroduction of grammar schools at last night’s first hustings in Leeds | The Foreign Secretary pledges she’ll ‘do what is right and necessary on Ukraine’, and ‘defend our freedom’
Sunak shakes off claims of faltering leadership | Trussss says she will perform U-Turn and deliver Northern Powerhouse Rail in full | Foreign Secretary calls for more Commonwealth trade | Truss vows to outlaw street harassment as Sunak pledges ban on ‘downblousing’
Truss says Sunak would be new Gordon Brown as leadership rivals clash in TV debate | MPs wrong to oust Johnson, says Truss | William Hague: Tories must beware Johnson the incredible sulk | Truss pledges sweeping changes to trade union laws
Sunak and Truss to face off in the first of a ‘trio of TV debates’ on the BBC tonight | The former Chancellor still trails the Foreign Secretary amongst Tory members – and voters | Sunak accuses Truss of being ‘soft on China’
Tory leadership candidates promise a tougher approach on migration | Sunak pledges to fix asylum system and NHS backlog | Trust will end EU regulation and abolish Quangos
Truss and Sunak trade blows over tax pledges, as poll suggests an increased lead for the Foreign Secretary | The former Chancellor ‘unlikely to cut taxes before autumn 2023’, but the planned income tax cut ‘could be brought forward’ | Truss admits she was ‘wrong’ to vote Remain, and insists she is the best candidate to deliver Brexit opportunities
Sunak and Truss line up for final showdown over Tory leadership “After 10 days of brutal political combat at Westminster, former chancellor Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss will now take their fight to be Britain’s next prime minister to the country. Some Tory MPs fear the worst. Such has been the acrimony between […]
Truss ‘closing on Mordaunt’ as the three remaining contenders woo Badenoch’s supporters ahead of the final parliamentary leadership ballot | Liz Truss: I am the only candidate with a ‘true Conservative’ economic plan | Sunak: I would stop the SNP using ‘back door’ deal to break up the Union | Mordaunt criticised over new post-Brexit trade deal announcement today
Tugendhat eliminated. Another candidate will be knocked out today | Final debate cancelled for fear of damaging party | Bullish speech from Johnson as the Government wins confidence vote
Conservative MPs to vote in third leadership ballot today | Sunak brands Truss’s plans as ‘socialist’ in ‘bitter’ ITV debate… | …as he vows to do ‘whatever it takes’ to help Zelensky defeat Putin’s invasion
Leaked documents ‘call Mordaunt’s gender self-ID claims into question’ | Sunak vows to ditch EU laws ‘holding Britain back’ | Tugendhat vows to clamp down on gangs and county lines | Truss: I’ll put an end to ‘Stalinist’ housing targets
Five leadership candidates to face ConservativeHome hustings and Channel 4 debate today, after Braverman’s elimination from the contest | Sunak ‘will focus on income tax cuts, not corporation tax’ | Frost claims he has “grave reservations” about his former deputy Mordaunt… | …as he endorses Truss, alongside the eliminated Braverman
Mordaunt becomes briefing target after poll shows strength of her support among party activists | Sunak tightens grip on party as Hunt praises ‘formidable ability’ | Truss issues stark warning to Tory Right as leadership battle hots up | ERG split over backing Braverman
Sunak and Truss ‘head the field’ of candidates, as Conservative MPs prepare to vote in the first round of leadership ballots | The former Chancellor claims he’ll ‘run the economy like Thatcher’ if he wins… | …as Rees-Mogg brands his policies as ‘socialist’ – extending his comments from this week’s Moggcast – as he backs the Foreign Secretary
Mordaunt new favourite among grassroots, latest poll shows | Cutting taxes is a matter of ‘when, not if’, Sunak to declare | Challenger ‘sounds the siren for free speech’ | Kemi Badenoch: I’ll put real jobs over pointless degrees