Newspaper headlines: PM ‘takes fight to critics’ amid election warning

Many of Thursday’s papers lead with continued suggestions of infighting within the Tory party and reaction to Liz Truss’s speech at the final day of the party conference. The Times reports that a former cabinet minister and close ally of Boris Johnson is warning the Conservative Party faces a landslide defeat at the next election unless Ms Truss changes course. Nadine Dorries, a supporter of Ms Truss during the Tory leadership contest, said the PM had made some “big mistakes” in her first weeks in office and did not have a mandate for her radical agenda, the paper says.