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There is promising news for Conservative leadership hopeful Liz Truss – as several papers report that she is making gains in the contest to replace Boris Johnson. “Truss heads for No 10 as Sunak’s tax U-turn fails” is the headline on the front of the i weekend. A poll for the paper shows Rishi Sunak is falling behind in the contest. However, neither Tory candidate would beat Labour’s Keir Starmer among the winder electorate, according to the paper.
“Sunak suffers new blow” is the Times’ headline as the paper says former leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat has lent his support to Ms Truss. Writing in the Times, he said the foreign secretary was the only candidate ready to become PM and unite the Conservative Party. He also endorsed her tax plans. The paper calls Mr Tugendhat’s backing “significant”, given his popularity among Tory members and his position among the One Nation group of centrist Conservative MPs.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Ms Truss is planning a “Thatcherite shake-up of the Treasury” to give No 10 more control over the economy. According to sources cited by the paper, if Ms Truss becomes prime minister she will bolster the number of economic advisers in No 10 to give her more power to work with her chancellor to challenge Treasury “group think”. Under a Ms Truss premiership, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng could get the keys to No 11, the paper adds.
And the Daily Express leads with Ms Truss’ plans to overhaul mortgage rules, by allowing rental payments to be included in assessments for mortgages. According to the paper, she also intends to cut so-called “red tape” to allow more homes to be built and give local residents a greater say on developments.
The other story dominating several of the papers is the so-called Wagatha Christie verdict. Rebekah Vardy lost her High Court libel battle with Coleen Rooney on Friday. The verdict left Mrs Vardy, who is married to Leicester striker Jamie Vardy, “devastated”, the Daily Mirror reports. One legal expert quoted by the paper said Mrs Vardy – who brought the defamation case against Mrs Rooney – “scored an embarrassing own goal” by bringing legal action.
Mrs Vardy has said the judge got it wrong, branding the verdict “unjust”, the Sun adds. In contrast, Mrs Rooney is quoted as saying: “I was right all along.” Wayne Rooney’s wife said she never wanted to go to court and said the £3 million legal costs could have gone to helping others, reports the paper.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail says that Mrs Rooney is plotting “TV revenge” after her libel trial win over Mrs Vardy. But its main story centres on a hosepipe ban facing millions of Britons amid one of the driest years on record.
And the Daily Star opts for the football chant-inspired headline: “You’re not singing anymore,” accompanied by photoshopped images of the two leading women in the libel case. The judge said of Mrs Vardy that “significant parts of her evidence were not credible.” She added: “In my judgement, Ms Rooney was an honest and reliable witness.”
Elsewhere, the head of the CBI business group has said that thousands of British companies are severing economic ties with China, threatening to heap more pressure on the cost of living, the FT Weekend reports.
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