🔴 NEW: Liz Truss to launch campaign as second round of voting gets underway
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🔴Lord David Frost, the former Brexit chief negotiator, has told Talk TV he would have "grave reservations" about Penny Mordaunt becoming Prime Minister telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
➡️How does Liz truss fare against the other contenders?
Ahead of her formal campaign launch at 10am, The Telegraph take a look at how foreign secretary Liz Truss stacks up against the other seven runners and riders for leader of the Conservative party telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🔴Liz Truss has launched her leadership bid.
"I will campaign as a Conservative, and I will govern as a Conservative. I can lead, I can make tough decisions, I can get things done.
🔴Liz Truss has vowed that she will “be bold” with the economy, as she attempts to regain momentum to get to the final two candidates for leader telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
➡️Tom Tugendhat said he would not withdraw from the Tory leadership race despite coming fifth in the first round of voting.
He said picking up 37 votes as a backbencher showed there was an appetite for a "clean start" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🔴Lord Frost is understood to be privately urging Suella and Kemi to drop out and back Liz Truss for leader of the Conservatives telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
Liz Truss and Tom Tugendhat have signed up to levelling up pledges, including appointing a Minister for the North who attends cabinet
As reported yesterday by the Telegraph, the Government's motion of confidence in itself has now officially been tabled for Monday in the House of Commons
🔴Suella Braverman has been knocked out of the Conservative leadership race, leaving five candidates to head into the next round telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🗣️ Suella Braverman says Penny Mordaunt doesn't stand up for women
Braverman told Sky News: "I disagree with Penny on some key issues... i.e. the maternity Bill that was passed for my benefit when I had my baby last year" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🔴 All five candidates will take part in tomorrow's debate
📺 Channel 4 have confirmed that the candidates will take part in its debate on Friday night, with further televised clashes scheduled for Sunday and Monday telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
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Here's the latest on the global tech outage from reporter @matthfield:
Television channels, airports and banks around the world have been knocked offline in a massive outage causing Windows computers to suddenly shut down.
Sky News’s breakfast show was not on air on Friday morning, replaced by archive footage.
Downdetector, a website which monitors outages, reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft applications, banking websites and airline apps.
On Ryanair’s website, the company urged passengers to arrive at airports three hours early blaming a “third party IT issue, which is outside Ryanair’s control and affect all airlines operating across the network”.
Our Senior Technology Reporter @GazTheJourno will be here from 1pm today to answer all of your questions!
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✍️ @GazTheJourno: Elon Musk has always wanted to create a company called X.
The first X was in fact an online bank he set up in the late 1990s - and its CEO was Peter Thiel. That company later became PayPal and was bought by eBay in 2002.
@GazTheJourno 🗣️ @GazTheJourno: Twitter’s blue bird logo has been with the site since its creation in 2006. Its branding has always been twee(t!), featuring the bird doing cutesy things including lifting up the fail whale on its ‘site over capacity’ page back in the 2010s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🇺🇦 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures, a Telegraph investigation has found.
🔴 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures.
Oleg Andreev, 65, who is paralysed, was taken by Russian invaders occupying his village in eastern Ukraine. Mr Andreev said his wheelchair was stolen by a Russian soldier, who used it for an
injured comrade.
🇺🇦 Exclusive: Alexander Lukashenko implicated in alleged war crime as boys and girls as young as six are taken to camps in 'forced deportation'
Read this exclusive in full from @sophia_yan, @Nat_Vasilyeva, and @VerityBowman here 👇
@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Three of the “camps” are in the Minsk region, namely the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp. The fourth site is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region.
🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.