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| Rishi Sunak will attempt to get back on the front foot with a benefits crackdown after a torrid first day of his annual party conference in which he came under pressure from senior Conservatives over tax cuts and HS2.
After an unhelpful intervention from senior cabinet minister Michael Gove – who said he wanted taxes to come down before the election – the PM was forced to resist calls to pledge pre-poll giveaways.
He also faced fresh calls to commit to the northern leg of HS2 from his own former levelling up minister who quit the department just last month, and the former Tory party chairman.
It came as business secretary Kemi Badenoch called for withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights to be "on the table". | |
| | In just a few days more than 100,000 people have fled the separatist enclave, fearing persecution as Azerbaijani forces closed in | |
| | Jessica Baker, 15, died in tragic motorway crash on Friday alongside driver Stephen Shrimpton | |
| | Fans on both sides were outraged when the alleged offensive images mocking Bradley gained traction online | |
| | Sycamore Gap, thought to be around 300 years old, was made famous by actor Kevin Costner | |
| By 28, I will be married. By 30, I will have my first baby and call him something adorably pretentious, like Silas. By 32, I will be living in the countryside and expecting my second baby, a girl whose bedroom I will have already painted yellow, writes Olivia Petter. Like many millennials, I imagined a future for myself a lot like this when I was growing up. And yet, the reality couldn't be farther from it: I'm 29, single, and ambivalent about whether I even want children – that is if you exclude my cat, Blanche DuBois, who is, for all intents and purposes, my fluffy daughter. Read the full article | |
| – Culture secretary Lucy Frazer has become the second cabinet minister to take a £100 bet that the Conservatives will win the next election – but stopped short of staking £1,000, citing her role in charge of gambling. Read the full article here | |
| " It's because everyone knows who it is. What they're asking me for is the women's names. And that's what I won't give and that's why I was reluctant to talk about it." | |
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