🔴 Boris Johnson had at least 100 backers in Tory leadership race, confirms Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 committee.

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telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… 🗳️ Boris Johnson did have enough support to challenge Rishi Sunak in the Conservative leadership election, it has been confirmed

🔴Prime Minister Edi Rama says UK's 'rhetoric of crime' ends up punishing 'innocent' workers who pay British taxes

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telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… 🗣️Albania’s Prime Minister has told Britain to stop blaming "innocent" Albanians for its migrant crisis in a rebuke to Home Secretary Suella Braverman's "insane" rhetoric

❓ According to odds given by bookies, Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt are the most likely contenders to take over.

But with Boris Johnson expected to run too - who could be our next Prime Minister?

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telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/2… Liz Truss has resigned as Prime Minister, firing the starting gun on another Conservative leadership election.

So, who's in the running? 👇

Who will win the next general election?

The resignation of Liz Truss as Prime Minister comes amid a surge in the polls for Labour and dire numbers for the Conservatives

telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/2… Since Ms Truss became Prime Minister and unveiled her disastrous mini-Budget, the Telegraph’s poll of polls has shown a sharp fall in the share of British voters intending to back the Conservatives at the next general election, and a sharp rise in those intending to vote Labour

❓ What happens now that Liz Truss has resigned as Prime Minister?

A quickfire leadership election will be concluded by the end of next week

Here’s what could happen next ⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… Britain will have a new prime minister by next Friday after Liz Truss quit having lost control of the Tory party

🔴The darling of Tory right was forced to resign after ‘fiery’ showdown with the PM and new Chancellor over watering down immigration targets

✍️From @charleshymas, @christopherhope @benrileysmith and @camillahmturner

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Thread🧵⤵️ 🔴The fuse for Suella Braverman’s resignation was lit on Tuesday night when she had a heated face-to-face row with Liz Truss and Jeremy Hunt, her new Chancellor, over their demands to soften her stance on bringing down immigration

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🔵 Suella Braverman: No migrants who cross Channel will be able to claim asylum in the UK

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telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… 🔴 Suella Braverman will pledge to prevent human rights laws "interfering" with the UK's ability to deport illegal migrants by introducing a new law barring anyon e who crosses the Channel from claiming asylum in Britain

💼💰 Workers should get tax incentive for travelling into office, Jacob Rees-Mogg says.

The Business Secretary tells a @Telegraph event at the Conservative Party conference that there should be a carrot for commuters

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telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… Tax rules that incentivise working from home over travelling into the office should be reviewed, Jacob Rees-Mogg has suggested.

The Business Secretary said he was “interested in” the idea of making commuting costs tax deductible to even the playing field

How Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's secret midnight meeting killed off the 45p tax cut ⤵️

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… ⏰Approaching midnight on Sunday, Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng gathered in the Prime Minister’s hotel suite
📝They compared notes on the feedback they had received from MPs on the 45p tax cut

🔴 NEW: Yvette Cooper has pledged to scrap the Government’s Rwanda migrants policy and use the money saved to pay for a new cross-border police unit to stop dangerous Channel crossings.

Follow all the latest updates on our politics liveblog here ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… Sir Keir Starmer is about to unveil his vision for the UK as he tries to persuade the nation that the Labour Party is ready to take power.

Watch this live here ⬇️

🗣‘The public have a right to expect that the police get the basics right’

Suella Braverman has made her first major statement as Home Secretary.

Read on for our full report

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telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… Braverman said police needed to stop wasting time on ‘symbolic gestures’ and initiatives on diversity.

👉She says they need to focus on ‘common sense policing’

🔴 NEW: Kwasi Kwarteng's "mini-Budget" will be a "game-changing" moment for the UK economy, a Cabinet minister has claimed this morning

Follow all the latest updates on our politics liveblog here⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… 📽️Kwasi Kwarteng is about to deliver his “mini-Budget” in the House of Commons as he announces tens of billions of pounds of tax cuts and increased Government spending.

Watch it live here⬇️

Brexit deal looks closer than ever under Liz Truss

By setting a six-month deadline, Prime Minister has taken the threat of the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill off the table for now

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telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… ✍️"A Brexit deal looks more likely than not after Britain set a six-month deadline for negotiations over the Northern Ireland Protocol," writes @JamesCrisp6

🔴 Who is Kwasi Kwarteng?

Britain’s 109th Chancellor of the Exchequer, and former @Telegraph columnist, is considered a rising star...

But what do we know about the Eton, Cambridge and Harvard-educated, PhD-wielding politician? 👇
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… Kwasi Kwarteng has been considered a rising star well before he entered Parliament and became Chancellor...

🖋️ And he has left a trail of published evidence showing his thinking on the state of Britain, first making his name at the age of 22 with a column in The Telegraph ⬇️

🔴 LIVE: Sir Keir Starmer and Liz Truss go head to head for the first time at this week’s #pmqs

Follow updates here 🧵👇
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… 📽️Watch PMQ's live here ⬇️

Liz Truss forms most diverse Cabinet in history with no white males in top jobs

For the first time, none of the Great Offices of State is held by a white man

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telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… 🔴For the first time in history, none of the Great Offices of State - Prime Minister, Chancellor, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary - is held by a white man

✒️ Boris Johnson ‘to finish memoir by Christmas in borrowed mansion.’

Sources say outgoing Prime Minister needs to ‘get some hay in the loft’ as he looks ahead to some lucrative employment options ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… Boris Johnson could finish a memoir of his time in Downing Street by Christmas, as he prepares to move into a borrowed house in central London, reports @christopherhope

🔴David Lammy has been found to have breached the MPs’ code of conduct by inadvertently failing to register on time 16 different interests, including a number of commercial radio shows and Black History Month speeches telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… An investigation into the shadow foreign secretary was opened into the shadow foreign secretary by Kathryn Stone, Parliament’s standards commissioner, on June 15 and related to claims about the late declaration of earnings and hospitality

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🗣️ Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have exchanged many heated words during the race to become the next prime minister, yet their actions as MPs have often spoken louder.

Explore their voting records and where they stand here 👇 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… 🗣Ahead tonight's leadership hustings hosted by @CamillaTominey, these are their voting records on key issues like climate, immigration and the economy

https://twitter.com/alex_jay_clark/status/1557694282542219265

"Labour has laid a trap for Boris Johnson – and it could force him out of the Commons"

"Supporters of the Prime Minister, led by Sir Bill Cash, a former shadow attorney general, cry foul over privileges committee investigation," writes @gordonrayner
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telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… ✍️"Unless Boris Johnson’s staunchest allies can mount a successful rearguard action, the Prime Minister could soon find himself not only out of Downing Street but also out of Parliament"

🔴 Michael Gove is facing a rebellion from Tory backbenchers over a new law “re-criminalising” rough sleeping

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telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… ➡️ The Vagrancy Act dates back to 1824.

The act, which rendered homelessness and begging illegal, was repealed in April as part of the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act