Management 1) Truss ‘hints’ at extra help for households and small companies if she wins…
“Liz Truss has hinted that she is going to give extra help to struggling households and companies to assist them climate the price of residing crunch. Amid strain to transcend her promised tax cuts, the Tory management frontrunner mentioned she would take a look at the issue ‘throughout the board’. However her rival Rishi Sunak final evening warned she risked plunging the financial system into an ‘inflation spiral’ if she doesn’t select between tax cuts or offering help. Miss Truss has now prompt that extra assist might be given to small companies and households being hit by hovering vitality costs… John Redwood, who was the top of Margaret Thatcher’s Coverage Unit and is now tipped for a ministerial position beneath Miss Truss, mentioned she would take a look at a ‘vary of help for individuals who don’t pay tax’.” – The Every day Mail
- Heavy hitters guarantee voters ‘assistance is on the best way’ – Every day Categorical
- Has the vitality value cap run its course? – The Monetary Occasions
- Fears that ‘over one million’ are poised to cancel direct debits to vitality corporations – The I
- Three Conservatives from throughout the UK declare she has a plan for ‘conserving [the] fractured United Kingdom collectively’ – The Every day Mail
- We should not collapse to Putin’s evil regardless of the cost-of-living disaster – Editorial, The Solar
- Radical Truss provides the Tories one final probability – Tim Stanley, The Every day Telegraph
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Management 2) …Sunak’s supporters accuse her of ‘making an attempt to keep away from scrutiny’ over price range…
“Liz Truss is avoiding scrutiny by planning to carry an emergency price range with out impartial forecasts, Rishi Sunak’s supporters have mentioned. Truss has promised to carry an emergency price range inside weeks if she succeeds Boris Johnson subsequent month… Truss, the international secretary, isn’t planning to ask the impartial Workplace for Price range Duty (OBR) for a proper forecast of public funds to accompany the price range, The Sunday Occasions reported. It will symbolize a break from all budgets for the reason that Conservatives got here to energy in 2010… Truss’s plan to not seek the advice of the OBR was condemned final evening by Mel Stride, the chairman of the Treasury choose committee and a Sunak supporter.” – The Occasions
- Her ‘vacation from actuality’ spending plans may even see her step again from a full Price range subsequent month – The I
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Management 3) …Thatcher’s former coverage chief accuses her of ‘playing’ with the financial system…
“Margaret Thatcher’s former coverage chief has accused Liz Truss of “playing” with the financial system, as he urged Tory members to vote for Rishi Sunak. Lord Griffiths, who headed up the Quantity 10 Coverage Unit between 1985 and 1990, mentioned it was “inconceivable” that the previous prime minister would have sought to chop taxes earlier than defeating inflation. The International Secretary, seen because the frontrunner within the management race, has pledged to scrap the latest rise in Nationwide Insurance coverage, in addition to the deliberate will increase in company tax… He mentioned: “I can’t rely the variety of occasions Mrs Thatcher informed me that one in every of her biggest fears was that at some point, one in every of her chancellors would reduce taxes as ‘gamble on the way forward for the financial system’. Slicing taxes at this time is simply such a chance.” – The Every day Telegraph
- After Gove, beware the facility of lightweights – Clare Foges, The Occasions
Management 4) …her group reportedly wish to see workers ‘culled’ on the ‘bloated’ Cupboard Workplace…
“The Cupboard Workplace might be scaled again beneath plans by Liz Truss to chop civil service numbers. The international secretary, who’s prone to be introduced as Boris Johnson’s successor in a fortnight, needs to “slim down” the centre of Whitehall, with each No 10 and the Cupboard Workplace seen as being “bloated”. The variety of civil servants on the Cupboard Workplace, whose fundamental position as a division is to co-ordinate work throughout authorities, has swelled considerably since Brexit and the pandemic. Truss’s marketing campaign group have been speaking to ministers and advisers with expertise of the sprawling division about how they might return it to its earlier measurement. Some ministers imagine it has develop into an engine of resistance to authorities priorities.” – The Occasions
- Her plan to scrap Whitehall range jobs would ‘take the UK ‘backwards’, in accordance with a black Tory activist – The I
- Gold-plated civil service pensions are an obscene, out of date Ponzi scheme. Finish them. – Trevor Kavanagh, The Solar
Management 5) …and Rees-Mogg defends her name for British staff to point out “extra graft”
“Jacob Rees-Mogg has defended Liz Truss’s name for British staff to point out “extra graft”. The minister for presidency effectivity mentioned Truss’s feedback, which had been leaked final week, mirrored the “unlucky actuality” in components of Britain. In feedback made whereas she was chief secretary to the Treasury…Truss unfavourably contrasted the “mindset and angle” of British staff with the Chinese language. Blaming the nationwide productiveness downside on “ability and software”, Truss mentioned: “This has been a historic truth for many years. Basically it’s partly a mindset and angle factor, I believe. It’s working tradition, mainly. Should you go to China it’s fairly totally different, I can guarantee you.”… Rees-Mogg embraced Truss’s feedback in his newest criticism of the “rotten tradition” of working from house.” – The Occasions
Nick Timothy: It can take greater than a brand new Prime Minister to save lots of Britain from this doom spiral
“Regardless of the arguments deployed within the Tory management marketing campaign, large authorities intervention within the vitality market is on its method. With out it, thousands and thousands of households – not simply the poorest, however these with regular incomes – and plenty of hundreds of companies threat break. With out tens of billions in further spending, the financial and social scarring left by the vitality crunch will final for years… Addressing the fast disaster earlier than us, and beginning the onerous work of fixing our wider vitality coverage, requires sturdy management that pushes ideology firmly apart. However sturdy management also needs to recognise that our method of doing issues – the British mannequin supported by a political consensus lasting many years – is damaged.” – The Every day Telegraph
Labour ‘calls for’ the management candidates again their plan to save lots of Britons ‘£11.4 billion on vitality payments’…
“Labour is demanding the 2 Tory management candidates again its Heat Houses Plan to save lots of households £11.4billion over the following three years. Households would save a mean £1,000 a yr off vitality payments by reversing the house insulation failures of the Authorities, it mentioned. Occasion chief Sir Keir Starmer needs 19million houses to be upgraded. The transfer would additionally help half one million building jobs. Labour claimed Brits would have saved £2billion on payments if it had been adopted once they first demanded it. It will additionally cut back dependence on abroad vitality provides. Shadow Local weather Change Secretary Ed Miliband final evening known as on Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to again the measures. He mentioned there had been “twelve years of failure” beneath the Tory social gathering.” – The Solar
- Miliband calls on the following Prime Minister to make insulating houses a ‘nationwide mission’ – The Guardian
- Why Sunak and Truss should sizzling again towards the lunacy of Labour’s fetish for freezing costs – Dominic Lawson, The Every day Mail
…as leaked evaluation from the Opposition suggests the International Secretary’s arrival in Downing Avenue ‘might ship [the] Tories a giant bounce in polls’
“Tory management frontrunner Liz Truss might give the federal government a double-figure bounce within the polls as soon as she is put in in No 10, in accordance with inside Labour evaluation. A memo drawn up by Keir Starmer’s director of technique, Deborah Mattinson, claimed the international secretary might dramatically enhance Conservative fortunes. The doc, leaked to the Guardian, comes amid hypothesis that Truss might be tempted to capitalise on the upswing and name a snap common election. Nonetheless, the analysis additionally means that any enchancment within the authorities’s place might be very short-lived, with voters already involved about elements of Truss’s character. “Our focus teams recommend that as voters get to know Truss higher they like her much less,” it says.” – The Guardian
Swing voters would somewhat Johnson had not left workplace, analysis suggests…
“Conservative voters have ‘vendor’s regret’ over the ousting of Boris Johnson and would decide him as the following Prime Minister over each management rivals, analysis has revealed. Interviews in marginal constituencies revealed floating voters imagine Tory MPs have badly broken the fame of the social gathering by ousting Mr Johnson and firing the beginning gun on a bitter battle to interchange him. This was backed up by separate nationwide polling by YouGov that discovered 49 per cent of Tory supporters thought Mr Johnson ought to stay Prime Minister – greater than the mixed help for Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. The responses backed up claims that the removing of Mr Johnson might have a major influence on the social gathering’s electoral possibilities in 2024.” – The Every day Mail
- Why swing voters don’t belief Truss or Sunak – The Occasions
…as Dorries claims his “US-style impeachment” might have a “chilling impact” on Parliament…
“The Prime Minister is being investigated by the privileges committee over allegations that he misled the Home of Commons about lockdown gatherings in Downing Avenue… Yesterday senior Tories informed the Every day Mail they feared the inquiry would result in ‘paralysis’ for ministers, who will really feel unable to talk for concern of being held in contempt, or might not wish to take the job in any respect. Tradition Secretary Nadine Dorries mentioned: ‘…This American-style impeachment erodes belief in our democracy, and can cut back transparency and openness in Parliament. Ministers will now must be very, very cautious what they are saying on the dispatch field, and the way they are saying it. It can completely have a chilling impact.’” – The Every day Mail
- Kangaroo courtroom dangers damaging democracy – Editorial, The Every day Mail
- Dorries’ On-line Security Invoice is a menace to freedom – Editorial, The Occasions
…because the Prime Minister joins different Western leaders in urging additional safety for Ukraine’s nuclear websites
“Boris Johnson and different Western allies of Ukraine have known as for the important safety of Ukraine’s nuclear websites following Russian assaults. The information follows a renewed enchantment from the United Nations for army restraint across the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant which has been occupied by Russian forces… In response to the PM’s workplace, Mr Johnson has now joined the leaders from France, Germany and the US in “stressing the significance” of the security of the websites in Ukraine. A spokesperson from Downing Avenue mentioned: “On a joint name, the Prime Minister, President Biden, President Macron and Chancellor Scholz underlined their steadfast dedication to supporting Ukraine within the face of Russia’s invasion.” – Every day Categorical
GPs might write prescriptions for cheaper vitality payments, beneath plans drafted by Zahawi’s Treasury
“GPs can be handed powers to jot down folks prescriptions for cash off their vitality payments beneath price of residing plans drawn up by the Treasury. The daring proposals are being given “critical” consideration inside the Authorities however had been on Sunday ridiculed by Labour and medical unions. They’d imply the poorest and most weak households might seek the advice of their physician over getting further assist to pay for his or her fuel and electrical energy. Nadhim Zahawi, the Chancellor, has urged officers to suppose outdoors the field when developing with new concepts to assist struggling households. He’s drawing up a package deal of proposals for additional help which will probably be introduced to the brand new prime minister on their first day in workplace.” – The Every day Telegraph
Patel: Meta dangers a ‘grotesque betrayal’ of youngsters by introducing encrypted messaging
“Fb’s father or mother firm dangers a “grotesque betrayal” of youngsters by introducing encrypted messaging with out safeguards towards youngster abuse, Priti Patel says. Writing in The Telegraph, the Residence Secretary urges Meta, which owns Fb, Instagram and Whatsapp, to rethink its plans to roll out end-to-end encryption subsequent yr. She fears the transfer will stop police investigating youngster abuse. It follows an announcement by the tech big earlier this month that it’s going to begin testing encryption earlier than making it the default system for all private calls and messages on its three platforms subsequent yr. It’s at the moment restricted to WhatsApp messages.” – The Every day Telegraph
The Liberal Democrats accuse the Authorities of ‘losing taxpayers’ money’ on consultancy charges…
“The Authorities has been accused of losing taxpayers’ money on an “industrial scale” after it emerged departments have spent £3.25bn on consultancy charges prior to now 5 years. Between 2016 and 2021 spending on consultants soared throughout all Authorities departments, rising from £447m in 2016-2017 to greater than double in 2020-21, with £911m being spent. The official figures, obtained by the Liberal Democrats present, that the Treasury and the Division for Enterprise, Vitality and Industrial Technique (BEIS) had been the most important spenders over the five-year interval. The Treasury racked up a invoice of £759m, adopted by BEIS on £730m…The Liberal Democrats have known as for a clampdown on consultancy spending and urged each Division to element…how the billions have been spent.” – The I
…as they declare it’s a ‘nationwide scandal’ that bathers might be in danger from corporations failing to report uncooked waste spills
“The quantity of uncooked waste which is pumped into seas and rivers after heavy rain must be picked up by digital gadgets known as occasion period screens. These screens are a key instrument that the Authorities has mentioned will assist deal with the scandal of sewage being dumped in vacationer and bathing hotspots. However evaluation of Surroundings Company information by the Liberal Democrats reveals that a number of water corporations have both put in defective screens which solely work 10 per cent of the time – or haven’t put in them in any respect… However evaluation of Surroundings Company information by the Liberal Democrats reveals that a number of water corporations have both put in defective screens which solely work 10 per cent of the time – or haven’t put in them in any respect.” – The Every day Mail
- Human sewage could also be wanted to fertilise crops as international sulphur scarcity looms – The Every day Telegraph
Sturgeon’s Indyref2 plan a ‘waste of money and time’, says former aide
“Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of taking part in “political video games” over independence after one in every of her former advisers claimed she is aware of her bid to stage a brand new referendum subsequent yr is doomed. Alex Bell, a former SNP particular advisor, mentioned the Scottish Authorities had obtained authorized recommendation making clear Holyrood doesn’t have the facility to carry a brand new vote with out UK permission and denounced the present technique as “a waste of money and time”. Ms Sturgeon’s Authorities is looking for a ruling from the Supreme Courtroom on whether or not it will probably stage a referendum in October subsequent yr, and the First Minister has insisted that whether or not it has the facility to take action is an unresolved constitutional query.” – The Every day Telegraph
Information in Temporary:
- Thatcherism is a cult the Tories mustn’t comply with – Steven Fielding, The Spectator
- Millennial Catholics are faking it – Ann Manov, UnHerd
- On Britishness – Tim Chapman, The Critic
- Sturgeon helps to gas the fashion of the Scottish nationalist mob – Chris Deerin, The New Statesman
- Don’t take the Trump bait – Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish
