Truss: No extra sticking plasters to repair the power disaster
“Liz Truss will declare on Sunday that she is going to cast off “sticking plasters and kicking the can down the highway” in an effort to repair Britain’s power market and reinvigorate the financial system. A supply near the Overseas Secretary, who is taken into account extremely prone to be introduced as the following Conservative chief on Monday, stated she would embark on a “two-track method”: unveiling quick monetary help for households whereas additionally making an attempt to unravel the deep-rooted issues uncovered by the impacts of Covid and the struggle in Ukraine. Writing for The Telegraph, Ms Truss pledges to set out “quick motion on power payments and power provide” in her first week in workplace, as a prelude to a funds that might happen later this month. Ms Truss writes: “We have to take the troublesome selections to make sure we aren’t on this place each autumn and winter. Sticking plasters and kicking the can down the highway won’t do.” – Sunday Telegraph
- ‘I’ll take away the obstacles holding our nation again’ – Sunday Telegraph
- How Truss will sort out the worst in-tray for a brand new prime minister since Thatcher – Sunday Instances
- Robust in-tray for brand spanking new PM – Solar on Sunday
- Most individuals again Truss plan to sort out value of residing disaster – Mail on Sunday
- Ballot says Tories should assist extra – Solar on Sunday
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Police concern exhausting winter of surging crime and civil unrest
“Police forces are braced for an increase in crime, a breakdown in public order and even corruption of their ranks this winter as they draw up emergency proposals to cope with the price of residing disaster. Contingency planning amongst police chiefs is beneath strategy to cope with the fallout that might end result from tens of millions of households falling into monetary difficulties. A leaked nationwide technique paper, drawn up by them this summer time, has revealed they’re more and more involved that “financial turmoil and monetary instability” has “potential to drive will increase specifically crime varieties”. These embrace “acquisitive” offences, corresponding to shoplifting, housebreaking and automobile theft, in addition to on-line fraud and blackmail, and crimes that “depend on exploiting monetary vulnerability”. At a regional stage, some police forces are making ready for extra youngsters to be sucked into county strains drug gangs and girls falling sufferer to sexual exploitation. Priti Patel, the house secretary, is known to share their concern.” – Sunday Instances
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Truss Cupboard: The brand new high crew and the pressing missions they’re set to be handed
“It’s maybe emblematic of the urgency of the duty going through Liz Truss. If the Overseas Secretary turns into prime minister on Tuesday, she could must cast off the same old parade of MPs strolling up Downing Avenue to be appointed to a job in her Cupboard. The sensible implications of Boris Johnson having to tender his resignation to the Queen in Balmoral earlier than Ms Truss then pays her personal go to to the monarch on the identical day, imply {that a} Cupboard reshuffle would should be carried out at double velocity whether it is to be accomplished on Tuesday night, following the brand new prime minister’s handle to the nation at 4pm. That might imply a combination of in-person conferences and phone calls with these being provided jobs. With the Conservatives already greater than midway by way of the present parliament, Ms Truss may even instill in her Cupboard an urgency to ship on particular pledges within the 2019 manifesto and her management marketing campaign.” – Sunday Telegraph
- Pack cupboard with Johnson loyalists at your peril, Truss is warned – Observer
- Runners and riders for Truss’ cupboard – Mail on Sunday
- How she gained the battle for No 10 – Sunday Telegraph
- And the way Truss rose to assert the Conservative crown – Observer
- Simply the place is Truss from? – Sunday Instances
- What’s going to Sunak do subsequent if he loses the Tory management election? – Sunday Instances
- The primary 100 days of PM Truss – in her personal phrases – Sunday Telegraph
- Boat migrants is high of Truss in-tray – Mail on Sunday
- The extra Tory voters see of Truss, the much less they like her, polls present – Observer
- Meet Truss’ ‘true blue’ husband – Mail on Sunday
- Is Raab going to lose his seat to the Lib Dems? It’s 50/50, he says – Sunday Telegraph
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>Yesterday:
Zelensky pens tribute to outgoing Prime Minister
“Boris Johnson’s legacy as a hero to the folks of Ukraine has been bolstered by a outstanding tribute from President Volodymyr Zelensky. In a robust message in at present’s Mail on Sunday, the chief of the war-torn nation hailed the outgoing Prime Minister as a ‘true pal’ who had all the time acted ‘swiftly and resolutely’ to supply assist in the face of Russia’s invasion. Mr Zelensky stated the UK was his nation’s ‘dearest pal and closest ally’ beneath Mr Johnson, and praised the PM’s ‘braveness and willpower’ in championing help for Ukraine. ‘At every assembly and dialog Boris had one excellent query, “What else? What else do you want?”,’ he stated. ‘It turned our watchword, guaranteeing efficient progress and motion ahead.’ – Mail on Sunday
Gove ‘plotted to waste £1.5bn’ in unspent taxpayer money
“Michael Gove has been accused of hatching an “outrageous” plan when he was Levelling Up Secretary to “waste” £1.5 billion of unspent money that might be used to sort out the price of residing disaster. Underneath Mr Gove’s management, the Division for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) developed a plan often known as “Challenge Zero” to “get rid” of a £1.5 billion projected underspend, The Telegraph has been advised. Mr Gove, who served as Levelling Up secretary till he was sacked by Boris Johnson in July, is claimed to have despatched a memo outlining the mission at the beginning of the summer time. A Whitehall official advised The Telegraph that Mr Gove felt DLUHC wanted to clear the underspend so the division might “ask for extra money sooner or later”. Pointing to the price of residing disaster, the supply stated: “It appears simply outrageous on the timing.” DLUHC is claimed to be contemplating a “couple of tasks” for the cash, however the supply stated there was “nothing notably good to apply it to”. – Sunday Telegraph
Starmer: It’s time to get behind working folks and repair this nationwide disaster
“The appointment of a fourth Tory prime minister in 12 years is not any new daybreak for Britain. As summer time turns to autumn, the shadows of disaster are lengthening, looming over the entire nation. There isn’t any signal that both Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss have grasped the size of what’s going through us, not to mention possesses the solutions to it. The disaster we face isn’t just of the sacred – folks having to chop again on luxuries or forego extravagance – however of the profane. For the primary time in residing reminiscence, merely heating your own home, going to the retailers or filling up the automotive are sources of tension for tens of millions of individuals. The centre isn’t holding. Issues, it feels, are falling aside. I got here to politics after an extended profession. That makes me impatient. It additionally means I favour commonsense, sensible options over ideological purity. If I have been getting into Downing Avenue this week, I’d guarantee nobody would pay a penny extra for his or her power invoice this winter. I might fund that with a windfall tax on the surprising, report income of oil and gasoline corporations.” – Sunday Telegraph
MP ordered to give up residence in combat over household potato agency
“Conservative MP branded “dishonest” by a choose has been ordered to pay £800,000 and evicted from his luxurious nation residence after a dispute involving his household potato enterprise. Andrew Bridgen, 57, has spent years suing his household enterprise, AB Produce, which provides potatoes and different greens to catering corporations and supermarkets. The North West Leicestershire MP had accused the agency of forcing him out of a £93,000-a-year second job, which required him to attend a month-to-month board assembly. The choose discovered that, slightly than being bullied out of the job as he alleged, Bridgen resigned in an effort to scale back the quantity he would possibly owe his first spouse, Jackie, in divorce proceedings. Choose Brian Rawlings additionally discovered that Bridgen pressured the police inspector in his parliamentary constituency to launch a pricey one-year investigation into vexatious allegations in opposition to his estranged youthful brother, Paul Bridgen, 55, who runs AB Produce, which is predicated in Derbyshire.” – Sunday Instances
