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The case of the missing bathrobes … what Liz Truss’s latest gaffe tells us about grubbiness and greed

Did a member of the ex-PM’s team pilfer some dressing gowns? If so, it wouldn’t be the worst thing to happen on her watch, but it represents a particular, pernicious form of Westminster entitlement, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Is it time up for Simon Case, the mandarin who’s never out of the media?

The civil service is ‘a team without a captain’, argues Anthony Seldon. But can Sunak stomach ousting Case before the election?

The Guardian - UK

Watching TV in the garden is beyond the pale

Brief letters: Outdoor viewing | AI cancer tool | Liz Truss refund | The age of Charles III | Oath of allegiance

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Controversial guests at King Charles' Coronation - former PM, Chinese deputy, wealthy sultan

There will be 2,200 guests packed into Westminster Abbey on Saturday to see the Coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla - but it seems there are some surprising names on the guest list

Daily Mirror

Gove and Hunt, beware: true-blue Surrey is ready to turf out the Tories – and you’re next

An avalanche is coming. The voters I met are abandoning the Conservatives over lying, cheating and Brexit, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss locked in row over ‘£12k bill at Chevening country retreat’

The former prime minister has been asked to pay about £12,000 for costs incurred while she spent time at the Chevening estate last summer.

Evening Standard

Liz Truss disputing £12,000 bill relating to use of Chevening grace-and-favour house

Invoice for ex-PM’s time at Kent mansion when foreign secretary is thought to include sums for missing bathrobes and party business

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Liz Truss contests £12,000 bill from 'use of country retreat'

LIZ Truss is contesting a UK Government bill relating to her use of the grace-and-favour country house she had access to as foreign secretary.

The National (Scotland)

Liz Truss fights back against 'inappropriate' £12,000 Chevening estate bill

The former prime minister maintains that the majority of the invoice does not relate to personal expenses

Manchester Evening News

Liz Truss contests ‘£12,000 bill over use of Chevening country retreat’

The former prime minister has been asked to pay about £12,000 for costs incurred while she spent time at the Chevening estate last summer.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss 'hit by £12,000 bill' for Chevening 'parties' including 'lost' bathrobes

The Cabinet Office 'objected to the idea that the taxpayer should foot the bill for what were basically a series of summer parties' held by Liz Truss at Chevening as she prepared for her disastrous stint in No10

Daily Mirror

UK PM Sunak faces first test of comeback credentials in local polls

Rishi Sunak faces his first big electoral test as British prime minister next week in local polls where the opposition Labour Party hopes to capitalise on a year of chaos for the governing Conservatives, ahead of a national election expected next year.

Reuters

Coronation guest list: A who’s-who of everyone invited to King Charles’ big day

Attendees for today’s ceremony include world leaders, foreign dignitaries, and members of the public. Emma Loffhagen charts who has — and hasn’t — made the cut

Evening Standard

Truss and Kwarteng sacking of top civil servants ‘damaged government’

Instant removal of Treasury’s permanent secretary potentially worsened mini-budget crisis, parliamentary committee hears

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China carrying out biggest military build-up in peacetime history, says James Cleverly

Cleverly warns that if Beijing invaded Taiwan, it would destroy world trade

The Guardian - UK

Reality is Sunak’s enemy in this endless Tory campaign to defy political gravity

The PM posed as the leader who would finally tackle the serious issues. Now he is trying to stay in power by denying they exist, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Independent UK

Isolating China would be sign of weakness, says Cleverly

The Foreign Secretary also warned that if Beijing invaded Taiwan, it would destroy world trade.

The Guardian - UK

Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian review – the economic anarchy of Liz Truss’s dreams

This timely and important study of investment zones exposes the limitations of the experiments favoured by free-market fanatics

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Dominic Raab is gone, but many others will continue his assault on human rights

This government is determined to undermine international law, and with it our credibility, says Gordon Brown, who was prime minister from 2007 to 2010

The Guardian - UK

North Sea drilling: Greenpeace prepares to challenge ‘disastrous’ UK decision

Court to decide if judicial review of Liz Truss move to allow new oil and gas drilling should be permitted

The Guardian - UK

Labour to use tactic that finished off Truss to force Tories into sewage vote

If Tory MPs vote down opposition day motion, Labour can accuse them of thwarting attempts to clean up rivers, beaches and chalk streams

The Independent UK

Isolating China is ‘a betrayal of national interest’, Cleverly to say

At the Lord Mayor’s Easter Banquet the Foreign Secretary will say the UK must engage directly with the country in order to promote stability.

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak's 14 worst gaffes and scandals from his first six months in No10

It's been six months since Rishi Sunak stood on the steps of Downing Street pledging a Government with 'integrity, professionalism and accountability'. Since then three cabinet members have left under a cloud and he's being investigated by Parliament's standards watchdog

The National (Scotland)

Douglas Ross claims Scottish Tories will 'make gains' at next General Election

DOUGLAS Ross has said he believes the Scottish Tories will “make gains” at the next General Election and it is “up to other parties” to…

The Guardian - UK

No, minister! How Dominic Raab’s aggressive exit has damaged morale of civil servants

The deputy prime minister has gone, but the way he left has further worsened tensions between government and Whitehall

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