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Media commentators across political spectrum deride PM’s appearance on local radio to defend economic policy

Latest updates: all the developments from UK politics as the Labour party conference starts in Liverpool

The remarkable rise of Liz Truss. Plus: Gorbachev’s legacy.

In today’s newsletter: As Truss travels to Balmoral to accept the prime ministership, a look at some of the must-read pieces about her policies, her opposition and her future at No 10

The fall of Boris Johnson. Plus: The Uber files, revealed

Pundits argue it’s ‘back with a vengeance’ – and could transform the electoral arithmetic

Inflation is hotting up, leading workers to demand wage rises to compensate. Union membership is on the rise again. Will this spark a wage-price spiral? Stuart Watkins reports.

Commentary Political editor Toby Helm, in discussing an Opinium survey, reports that one year after the United Kingdom ...

Letters: Diana – the dream and the reality Perhaps the ordinariness of her statue befits a princess who shone so brightly that she cast a disproportionate shadow The statue of Diana, Princess of Wales, at the sunken garden of London’s Kensington Palace. Photograph: Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock The statue of Diana, Princess of Wales, at the sunken garden of London’s Kensington Palace. Photograph: Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock Sun 11 Jul 2021 01.00 EDT Consensus in the press finds Dianaâ...

You would have to possess a heart of stone not to weep with laughter at some of those who are now suddenly complaining about Brexit. It is a bit late for Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party, those lusty sponsors of the great experiment with the UK’s prosperity, to be wailing that they have been betrayed. I smiled to see that Roger Daltrey, the Leave-supporting lead singer of the Who, has joined the chorus of rock stars furious that the...