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UK housebuilders save billions as government delays low-carbon rules

Housebuilders have little incentive to take steps by themselves. It’s no surprise they are so keen to wade into the political arena as major donors

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The Conservatives have vacated the centre ground

British elections are won on the centre ground. Whoever occupies that territory generally sweeps to power. This being the case, why doesn’t everyone do it?

Evening Standard

Poll spells trouble for Rishi Sunak as voters who ‘lent’ votes look to take them back

Party loses 40% of 2019 voters in south and Midlands according to exclusive Opinium poll for the Observer

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Theresa May the latest former PM to urge Sunak not to trim HS2 as Tory Party Conference set to begin

The row over HS2 could derail this year's Tory Party Conference

Evening Standard

Theresa May piles pressure on Sunak not to scrap HS2

She joins calls by fellow ex-PMs Boris Johnson and David Cameron over fears scrapping line into Euston will disrupt trains from her constituency

The Independent UK

Cuts, war, Brexit: all fuel the battle for the centre ground, but no one really knows where that is

It is the concept dominating our politics, but unless people have a clear idea what it means, the debate will isolate them further, says author and broadcaster Steve Richards

The Guardian - UK

Cabinet split over Sunak’s HS2 ‘gross act of vandalism’

Exclusive: Levelling up secretary Michael Gove and transport secretary Mark Harper ‘very unhappy’ over plan to axe northern leg – first revealed by this newspaper – as George Osborne attacks ‘economic self-harm’

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Tory titans out to derail Sunak over HS2

PM in crisis as top Conservative revolt over plan to scrap northern leg grows

The Independent UK

Even HS2’s defenders are abandoning it. Rishi Sunak, it’s time to follow suit

Only political expediency has kept this terrible mistake on the rails. Pull the brakes – and save Britain billions, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Larry the Cat ‘happy and healthy’ says Downing Street after reports he was seriously ill

Larry has served as Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office under five different prime ministers

Evening Standard

Tory big beasts turn on Rishi Sunak’s ‘insane’ plan to scrap HS2

David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the government’s own infrastructure tsar join outcry against ‘tragedy’ of cancelling Birmingham to Manchester rail line – first revealed in The Independent

The Independent UK

Cameron and Clegg considered audacious electoral pact in 2015

Senior Tory and Lib Dem MPs were behind the plan, new book reveals

The Guardian - UK

Former Tory leaders condemn ‘desperate’ move to ditch HS2 to Manchester

Boris Johnson said rumoured cuts to HS2 were ‘Treasury driven nonsense’, with David Cameron also said to have intervened.

Evening Standard

Scrapping second leg of HS2 would be a ‘tragedy’, warns government tsar

Boris Johnson and David Cameron have also warned Rishi Sunak not to cut back the project, with the former saying it would ‘mutilate’ the planned rail network

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Former Tory PMs hit back at ‘desperate’ move to ditch HS2 to Manchester

Boris Johnson said rumoured cuts to HS2 were ‘Treasury driven nonsense’, with David Cameron also said to have intervened.

The Guardian - UK

Power and scandal: how Murdoch drove the UK, US and Australia to the right

He built a global conservative media empire, but the phone-hacking scandal and Dominion libel action almost undid the divisive mogul

The Conversation

Sunak should be wary of backtracking on net zero – what history tells us about flip-flopping on the environment

Rishi Sunak has delivered a speech in which he announced delays to key net zero targets, including postponing the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars until 2035. It is a remarkable event given that the UK Conservative party has at least paid lipservice to environmental concerns…

The Guardian - UK

Sunak’s net zero U-turn is so toxic that it’s united Greens and car manufacturers against him

With climate change a top priority for the public, surely time is up for a prime minister who couldn’t seem to care less, says Green MP for Brighton Pavilion Caroline Lucas

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The Guardian - UK

Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart review – a ringside seat for mayhem

The life of a minister is described with flair and frustration by the former Tory MP and cabinet member

Evening Standard

OPINION - Where the Ed Miliband comparison ends for Sir Keir Starmer

Starmer’s Labour faces a very different Conservative Party to the one Miliband faced in 2015

The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer branded 'delusional' as he insists he can get better Brexit deal

KEIR Starmer has pledged a major rewrite of the UK’s Brexit deal – insisting he had an “an utter determination” to make Brexit “work”.

The Guardian - UK

‘I saw how grotesquely unqualified so many of us were’: Rory Stewart on his decade as a Tory MP

When he arrived in 2010, he was surrounded by people who looked like him – and shared some of the same assumptions. Then, as the world changed in unimaginable ways, he watched in horror as the people in charge failed to change with it

The National (Scotland)

Worst of Westminster: Rory Stewart's flirt with Holyrood and bizarre memoir

Good evening all, Steph here! We have now reached more than 1000 subscribers to the newsletter, so thanks to each and every one of you for signing…

The Guardian - UK

Casual Keir reshuffles his wardrobe to take on Dishy Rishi

Adidas trainers appear to be Keir Starmer’s answer to the PM’s Timberlands as he rekindles the spirit of dressed-down Blairism

The National (Scotland)

George Osborne denies he 'cut people to the quick' while chancellor

GEORGE Osborne has denied he “cut people to the quick” during his time as chancellor under David Cameron, insisting the gap between rich and…

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