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Tories plan to narrow race with tougher rules for prime minister candidates

LONDON — The UK Conservative Party is planning to narrow down a wide field of contenders to be Britain’s next prime minister by requiring candidates to have the initial support of 20 Tory MPs.

Tribune News Service

Date UK's new Prime Minister will be announced confirmed

Boris Johnson's replacement will be revealed after a number of votes among MPs

Chronicle Live

Sajid Javid ‘exploited non-dom tax loophole’ while MP working in Treasury

Exclusive: The Conservative leadership hopeful used the status to minimise his tax bill via an offshore trust

The Independent UK

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New Prime Minister to be announced on September 5

Sir Graham Brady, Altrincham and Sale West MP who chairs the 1922 committee, announced the schedule this evening.

Manchester Evening News

As Tories queue up to fill the Convict’s shoes, we are now officially in gameshow territory

Hopefuls deliver a word salad of fantasy economics and flannel as they launch leadership campaigns

The Guardian - UK

How many Cabinet ministers are there and what do they do? Tory party members deliver scathing verdict

The ConservativeHome website poll has ranked just under half of the UK Cabinet negatively

Evening Standard

Sajid Javid dodges questions over previous tax affairs at campaign launch

Sajid Javid declined repeatedly to get into specifics about where he has previously paid tax.

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Tories row over ‘fantasy tax cuts’, as Javid strikes out at ‘poisonous’ battle

Conservatives vying to replace Boris Johnson have engaged in a bidding war of proposals to win support.

The Independent UK

Sajid Javid refuses to come clean over tax affairs as he bids for Tory leadership

The former Chancellor faced a barrage of questions over where he was domiciled for tax purposes during a stellar banking career

Daily Mirror

The Mancunian Way: Heroes who fled twin tyranny

Read the Mancunian Way newsletter for Monday July 11, 2022.

Manchester Evening News

Sajid Javid warns Tories of 1997-style ‘oblivion’ after Boris Johnson ‘sleaze and scandal’

But former health secretary refuses to answer questions about his past tax-avoiding non-dom status

The Independent UK

Who is backing who in the Tory leadership contest? MPs say who they want to be next PM

Rishi Sunak takes early lead as MPs nail colours to the mast

Wales Online

People haven't heard of most Tory leadership contenders and wouldn't vote for them anyway

The ECHO spoke to people in Liverpool for their view on the candidates for the job of Prime Minister

Liverpool Echo

Tory leadership contest: Which candidates have pledged to publish tax returns?

Pledges come amid scrutiny on candidates’ financial affairs

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Tory chancers are turning the leadership contest into a wild battle of extremists

Would-be leaders are trying to woo party members with a dangerous mix of fantasy policies and wild tax cuts, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Independent UK

Who is backing who? Tories nail colours to the mast in leadership contest

Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss are among the candidates leading the way.

Reuters

UK's Javid sets out tax-cutting plan in pitch to be PM

Sajid Javid, a contender to replace Boris Johnson as Britain's prime minister, said on Monday he would cut a slew of taxes and hold an emergency budget to increase help for households hit by the rising cost of living if he was chosen as leader.

The Guardian - UK

No amount of reputation laundering will clean the Tory party after Boris Johnson

The next leader will be as much to blame for our crisis as the PM – no matter how they try to shimmy away from the crime scene, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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The National (Scotland)

Penny Mordaunt rules out indyref2: 'It's the last thing Scotland needs'

PENNY Mordaunt has become the fourth Tory leadership hopeful to say they wouldn’t allow a Scottish independence referendum to be held.

Evening Standard

Tory leadership candidates’ voting records - from Brexit to taxation

What have Boris Johnson's potential replacements voted for

Daily Record

Tory leadership candidates to face each other during live TV debates

Nearly all candidates to replace Boris Johnson have pledged massive tax cuts as soon as they get into office.

Evening Standard

Sajid Javid pledges to banish sleaze and scandal from the Tory party

Sajid Javid will on Monday launch his bid to become prime minister with a pledge to banish sleaze and scandal from the Tory party and slash taxes.

Bristol Post

Kingswood MP Chris Skidmore rules himself out of Conservative party leadership race

Eleven candidates have put themselves forward but he won't be one of them

Reuters

Analysis-Tax-cut talk in UK leadership race adds to inflation angst

Promises of tax cuts from candidates to succeed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pose another inflationary risk which could pressure the Bank of England to raise interest rates more aggressively, cancelling out any potential boost to the economy.

The Independent UK

Contenders vying to succeed Johnson as next UK leader

A crowded field of contenders is vying to replace Boris Johnson as the next Conservative leader and British prime minister

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