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Rishi Sunak squirms as he's told the one word people most often say about him
The words presented to the PM included 'rich', 'himself', 'the rich', 'money', 'not sure', 'no idea', 'upper class', 'greed', 'don't know', 'Britain'', and 'elite'
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Tory tax battle erupts as Michael Gove tells Rishi Sunak to slash levies
Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said he would 'like to see the tax burden reduced before the next election' but Rishi Sunak refused to commit to the calls moments later
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Iceland boss quits 'out of touch' Tories in humiliating blow to Rishi Sunak
Richard Walker said many Tories find it hard to disagree that the UK is 'in a considerably worse state than it was when their party returned to power 13 years ago'
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PM criticised for £91billion HS2 'chaos' after not attending any meetings
As Europe’s biggest infrastructure project has been put at risk, official meeting logs reveal Sunak has not met HS2 Ltd once since being appointed to the Treasury in 2019
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Giant billboard poster featuring Sunak in Liz Truss' pocket axed after tip-off
The Labour Party booked the advert for a huge digital billboard on Manchester’s Axis Tower skyscraper to overlook the Tory conference venue but it was canned after word got out
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'Rishi Sunak is only thinking about votes and ignoring that world is burning'
Rishi Sunak is postponing targets essential to getting us to net zero by 2050 as he is only focus on short-term electoral gain - and won't be Prime Minister in 25 years
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'HS2 mess is the perfect metaphor for 13 years of Tory failure'
Labour's Shadow Paymaster General says it's a complete joke that the Prime Minister is apparently going to scrap building the train line that the Tories have already spent £25 billion on
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Michael Sheen among stars to demand Rishi Sunak give UK an extra Bank Holiday
Public figures, including the Archbishop of Cantebury and actor Michael Sheen have called for a 'thank holiday' - an extra day off for people to connect with each other and volunteer'
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Boris Johnson spent £7,000 covering up infamous Number 10 gold wallpaper
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent another £7,000 of taxpayers’ cash painting over the 'gold wallpaper' he decorated his Downing Street flat with during a £112,000 makeover
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Cancer patients have charity cash cut in cost of living crisis
Macmillan Cancer Care has given grants to cancer patients to help with their additional costs for around a century - but they are having to chop £50 off the grant due to huge numbers of applications
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Far-right extremists praise Braverman after controversial immigration speech
Extremists aim to 'capitalise' on comments made by Suella Braverman about immigration, that being discriminated against for being gay or a woman should not guarantee refugee status
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'Braverman's horror shows are a sorry sign of times and say a lot about Tories'
Keir Mudie says Suella Braverman has been taking her act on the road this week to test it out before her big speech on Tuesday and becoming increasingly unhinged in the process
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Jacob Rees-Mogg earns a whopping £750 an hour on GB News on top of MP's salary
The multi-millionaire's pay check for the controversial news channel - which is equivalent to a £356,000 full-time salary - is in addition to the £86,584 salary Jacob Rees-Mogg earns
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'I swapped Rwanda for Rochdale to marry ex-Labour and now we're adopting'
Simon Danczuk and his wife Claudine got married in Rwanda over the summer and are having a UK ceremony at the end of October - then, they plan to adopt a baby from her homeland
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Five problems awaiting Rishi Sunak at Tory conference - from HS2 to Liz Truss
The PM faces a number of hurdles this week with a divided party after 13 years in power, with doubts looming over HS2, speeches by former PMs, and a protest just outside the conference centre
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HS2 snub is another Tory nail in the North’s sorry sinking coffin
How has the region that was the ­backbone of the industrial revolution sunk from being one of the world’s richest to one of Europe’s poorest?
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Rishi Sunak to pledge billions for road schemes in bid to sugarcoat HS2 betrayal
The PM will unveil plans for a roads spending bonanza at Conservative Party conference as he faces accusations he's doing the dirty on the North by cancelling HS2 to Manchester
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Tories strip £90billion from defence during 13 years of cuts to the military
The House of Commons Library calculated that £90.3billion more cash would have been injected into the armed forces if the Conservatives stuck with spending 2.5% of GDP on defence
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Tories deny they're plotting to strip pensioners of Winter Fuel Allowance
The Government insisted it was not going to axe the lifeline following reports Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was drawing up plans that would have meant only the very poorest OAPs would still be eligible
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Rishi Sunak slammed as fake friend of motorists as potholes farce creates misery
Labour criticised Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for trying to portray himself as a friend of drivers as he prepares to block English councils from imposing 20mph speed limits
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Boxes of champagne unloaded in bumper booze delivery for Conservative conference
Security staff were pictured checking over crates of plonk as Tory faithful, MPs and ministers prepare to descend on Manchester for the annual Conservative Party Conference
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Do you think councils should be handed more funding - vote in our poll
Local authorities are grappling with a collective “hole” of £3.5billion in their finances, meaning they could be forced to make cuts to vital services
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Tories will hike taxes by up to £3,500-a-year for every UK home by next election
Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found the Conservative Government has presided over the biggest set of tax rises in a single parliament since the Second World War
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Rishi Sunak mocks Johnson, Truss and TikTok fan Hancock in after dinner speech
Rishi Sunak told the Westminster Correspondents Dinner that Liz Truss had been 'quietly reflecting' on what went wrong - and quipped that he was tightening online safety rules to protect the public from Matt Hancock's TikTok antics