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Thursday briefing: Johnson is promising a revolution in home ownership. Will it work?

In today’s newsletter: To win over a split party, the prime minister says he will expand right to buy – Thatcher’s hallmark if controversial housing policy – even though it’s almost certainly a bad idea

The Guardian - UK

A smart cabinet would be plotting to get rid of Johnson. This one is neither smart nor brave

The PM has picked ministers who owe him everything and do his bidding. They have a duty to the country but are shirking it, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson is unlikely to match Thatcher’s ‘right to buy’ revolution

Analysis: Political gains of a scheme for housing association tenants would be small, and it could create sense of injustice

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Desperate Boris Johnson vows to carry on as PM as he tells voters 'I'm on your side'

In a speech, Boris Johnson will declare his 'ambition' to allow people in housing association properties to buy their homes at a big discount, copying Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s right-to-buy scheme

Daily Mirror

Head of Manchester's Tories on why his party hasn't elected a councillor in the city in nearly 30 years

Tactical voting, Margaret Thatcher and a lack of cash blamed for party's barren decades

Manchester Evening News

How a revolution in Scottish public transport can help tackle cost of living

MANY now make the trip to the petrol station with a sense of foreboding. How high will the prices be this time?

The National (Scotland)

Weakened in victory: On Boris Johnson winning no-confidence vote

Boris Johnson survived a no-confidence vote in his party, but faces tougher challenges ahead

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When is next general election and who can call for a snap election in the UK?

Following Boris Johnson's ousting and a lengthy leadership contest, Liz Truss was appointed as the new Prime Minister of the UK in September 2022, beating former Chancellor Rishi Sunak. But the path to power hasn't run smooth for her

Daily Mirror

Tory men in suits demand Boris Johnson 'get out' after worse result than Theresa May

Boris Johnson will today summon his Cabinet with his 'vision for the coming weeks' after 41% of his own MPs voted no confidence in him - and critics suggested he had only months on the clock

Daily Mirror

What the Tories now offer Britain – a lame duck leader and a party that has lost the plot

With a civil war looming, Conservatives don’t even seem to know what their party is for, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

‘Out in a year’: what the papers say about Tory vote on Boris Johnson

Only the most stridently supportive titles stand vocally behind prime minister after 41% of his own MPs vote for his removal

The Guardian - AU

Boris Johnson: what the result of the confidence vote means for the PM and the Conservative Party

The verdict is in. Boris Johnson retains the confidence of the Conservative Party. For now. Johnson received the votes of 211 out of 359 Tory MPs in support of his leadership, which means that technically he won. But the fact that 148 of his parliamentary colleagues voted against him, more…

The Conversation

Tory leaders who faced leadership vote and what happened to them

Boris Johnson isn't the first Conservative Prime Minister to face a no-confidence vote. Here we look at others and how they fared

Chronicle Live

Prime ministers who've faced no-confidence vote - when was the last one?

A no-confidence vote has the power to reduce a prime minister to tears in public. Boris Johnson now faces the judgement of his own MPs and is not the first to be in this position

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France 24

No-confidence vote likely ‘beginning of the end’ for UK’s Johnson

Boris Johnson faced the greatest threat to his premiership yet after the necessary 54 Tory MPs triggered the parliamentary party’s vote of no confidence on Monday, after the long-simmering Partygate scandal saw Platinum Jubilee crowds jeer him over the weekend. Analysts did expect him to win the necessary majority of…

Wales Online

The Conservative leaders who have faced leadership challenges and how they fared

The most recent to face a confidence vote was Theresa May in 2018

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson no-confidence vote: the key numbers that will decide PM’s fate

PM needs support of 180 MPs to survive as leader

The Conversation

Ronald Reagan's Westminster speech: why it is still relevant, 40 years later

Ronald Reagan became the first US president to address both houses of parliament on June 8 1982. His Westminster speech created a stir at the time. It marked the start of the evolution of the Reagan doctrine, his approach to foreign affairs that sought to support freedom and roll back…

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The Independent UK

How previous Tory leaders have fared in confidence votes or challenges

There have been a number of votes faced by Conservative Party leaders over the last few decades.

The Guardian - UK

I may be wrong but I think Boris Johnson is done for. I can’t see his Tory cult surviving

Polls show he’s increasingly reviled and his party’s attempts to counterattack are chaotic. The end feels nigh, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

70 years on and UK still mistakenly looks for economic miracle cure

During Queen’s reign, country has tended to move quickly from national gloom to premature belief that it has finally ‘cracked it’

The Guardian - UK

The Queen in culture: how art puts a public face to a private life

She has appeared in plays, novels, paintings – even love songs. From Andy Warhol to Alan Bennett, artists, writers and musicians have changed our picture of the Queen we think we know

The Guardian - UK

Whether we’re republican or monarchist, we secretly know the Queen still defines this nation

As an American who became a British citizen, I can see the monarchy is an anachronism, but without it I would be living in an unrecognisable place

The Guardian - UK

‘We want a queen who is like a parent’: Observer writers down the decades on the monarch’s reign

A selection of this newspaper’s writing about the monarch since she became queen when, as the fashion editor wrote, ‘surprise is an undesired quality’

The Independent UK

Police release CCTV in hunt for Margaret Thatcher statue vandals

Officers ask for help to identify pair seen near statue at time of first paint-throwing incident

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