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Stay current with all the latest and breaking news from Conservative Party, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 234 stories have been published about Conservative Party which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.Stay current with all the latest and breaking news from Conservative Party, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 234 stories have been published about Conservative Party which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.
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Europe · LondonForeign Secretary Liz Truss has a 34 point lead over former finance minister Rishi Sunak, a YouGov poll shows. The poll, which The Times said was conducted over the past five days, showed 60% support for Truss versus 26% for Sunak among Tory members.See the Story
UK's Liz Truss has 34 point lead over Sunak - YouGov/Times poll
50% Right coverage: 18 sources
Europe · LondonSajid Javid has thrown his support behind Liz Truss to become the next Conservative leader. He warned that Rishi Sunak's economic plans would lead Britain into a high-tax, low-growth economy. Javid's endorsement of Truss will be a blow to Sunak who saw him as a mentor.See the Story
Sajid Javid backs Liz Truss for Tory leader with attack on Sunak
46% Left coverage: 13 sources
Europe · EastbourneLiz Truss was interrupted by activists as she attempted to deliver her opening speech at a Conservative Party hustings in Eastbourne.
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Truss heckled by activists during Tory party hustings
60% Left coverage: 15 sources
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Europe · LondonAs Britain swelters through a roasting summer, calls for the Conservative government to act are getting louder. But the Conservatives are busy choosing a new leader, through a prolonged party election. There is little sense of crisis among Conservatives as Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak crisscross the country.See the Story
In race to win, UK Conservatives accused of ignoring crises
74% Center coverage: 16 sources
Europe · LondonBritish leadership candidate Liz Truss says energy giants should be held to account. Truss is the front-runner to become prime minister next month. Conservative Party members are voting over the next few weeks to decide the country's next leader."But, the way we bandy the word around 'profit' as if it's something that's dirty and evil, we shouldn't be doing that as Conservatives," Truss said.See the Story
Liz Truss defends energy firms saying profit is not evil
46% Left coverage: 11 sources
Europe · LondonThe Labour leader will pledge that, under his leadership, the party will get Britain "out of this endless cycle of crisis with a fresh start, a new set of priorities and a new way of governing". Sir Keir Starmer will claim a "changed" Labour can turn the UK into a "growth superpower" in his keynote conference speech - as a new poll gave the party its largest lead over the Conservatives in more than two decades.See the Story
Labour Party Surges in Britain
50% Center coverage: 10 sources
Europe · LondonLiz Truss, frontrunner in the race to replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister, said she still favoured tax cuts. Charities, business groups and politicians have called on Truss and her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, to set out how they would help Britons cope with a forecast 82% rise in energy prices in October.See the Story
Tory leadership: Liz Truss still favours tax cuts to ease economic crisis
46% Right coverage: 11 sources
Europe · LondonFormer Chancellor Rishi Sunak convincingly won over an audience of Conservative Party members. The audience members were asked who they thought had won the argument and they picked Sunak in a show of hands. It will come as a boost for the British Indian ex-minister who has been trailing Truss in most recent opinion polls.See the Story
Tory leadership race: Rishi Sunak wins over audience in Sky News' Battle for Number 10 programme
38% Left coverage: 8 sources
Europe · LondonBrandon Lewis has defended Liz Truss’s now-abandoned policy to cut civil service and public sector pay outside London, saying the figures were “extrapolated” and insisting the policy was never about reducing the pay of public sector workers. Truss had claimed the introduction of regional pay boards, which she said would “tailor pay to the cost of living where civil servants actually work”, could save up to £8.8bn a year.See the Story
Truss plan ‘never about reducing pay’ of public sector workers, says Lewis
100% Left coverage: 5 sources
Europe · LondonAn estimated 41 MPs will benefit from the scrapping of the top rate of income tax – including every cabinet minister. Owing to MPs’ standard pay increasing to £84,144 from April this year, 2022/23 would have been the first year that senior government ministers would have to pay the 45p rate of tax.See the Story
More than 40 MPs likely to benefit from scrapping of 45p tax rate
100% Left coverage: 1 sources
