Millions of middle earners will be more than £3,500 poorer thanks to plans by Rishi Sunak for a stealth raid on income tax that will last at least six years, an analysis for The Times has shown thetimes.co.uk/article/how-wi… The prime minister and Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, are thought to have agreed to extend until 2028 a freeze on income tax thresholds that had been due to end two years earlier

Kwasi Kwarteng attended a private champagne reception hours after delivering his mini-budget where hedge fund managers who would gain from a crash in the pound egged him on to commit to his plans thetimes.co.uk/article/kwasi-… The chancellor also gave guests insights about forthcoming government spending cuts during the event, which took place at the Chelsea home of Andrew Law, a financier and Conservative Party donor, on the evening of Friday, September 23

Boris Johnson may never return to live in Downing Street, after a removal firm favoured by past prime ministers was seen outside No 10 while he holidayed in Greece thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-… Workers from Bishop’s Move were stationed there yesterday, prompting questions over what would happen to the furnishings inside, bought during a controversial luxury refurbishment

Three quarters of Tory voters back Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to freeze energy bills as ministers come under pressure to do more to address the “national emergency” of living costs thetimes.co.uk/article/three-… The Labour leader will set out a £29bn plan today to prevent energy bills rising for six months, as polling indicates big majorities in favour of this idea and windfall taxes that Liz Truss’s team said would raise the risk of recession

FBI agents searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in a dramatic escalation of the criminal investigations swirling around the former president

But how many lawsuits and investigations does Donald Trump face?
thetimes.co.uk/article/trumps… Missing national records 📜

The US National Archives and Records Administration notified Congress in February that it had recovered about 15 boxes of White House documents from Trump’s Florida home, some of which contained classified material

Since the former Tory MP’s House of Commons porn scandal, many of us can’t look at farm vehicles in the same way. @camillalong meets him and his very understanding wife
thetimes.co.uk/article/neil-p… In April 2021, Parish was fiddling on his phone in the House of Commons. “I genuinely was looking at tractors,” he insists. When typing the tractor’s name into Google, one autocomplete suggestion was porn. “And I went into it,” he says

Liz Truss has extended her lead over Rishi Sunak to 34 points in the Tory leadership race, with 60% of party members now saying they will vote for the foreign secretary to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister thetimes.co.uk/article/truss-… A YouGov poll for The Times and Times Radio found that almost nine in ten Tory members had made up their minds.

26% said they would support Sunak. The rest were undecided or said they would not vote

Jeremy Corbyn has said the West should stop sending weapons to Ukraine during an appearance on pro-Hezbollah TV thetimes.co.uk/article/stop-a… The former Labour leader said “pouring arms” into Ukraine would only “prolong and exaggerate” the conflict.

He urged the United Nations to broker a peace deal, and failing that the African Union or League of Arab States should try to step in as an intermediary

Liz Truss has been forced into a U-turn after it was revealed that her plan for a “war on Whitehall waste” could lead to pay cuts for more than five million teachers, nurses and other public sector workers thetimes.co.uk/article/liz-tr… The foreign secretary outlined proposals yesterday to introduce regional pay awards and end the national setting of salaries for civil servants, which her campaign said would save the taxpayer £8.8 billion a year thetimes.co.uk/article/civil-…

Liz Truss is now only five points ahead of Rishi Sunak in the race to succeed Boris Johnson, private polling carried out for the foreign secretary’s campaign suggests thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-… The survey, which concluded early last week, has support for Truss on 48% compared with 43% for the former chancellor, and 9% of members who were questioned undecided

Liz Truss has promised to extend a scheme allowing unskilled migrants to pick fruit and vegetables as part of a package to boost food security thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-l… She will add flexibility to the seasonal workers scheme, which allows farmers to recruit low-paid staff from overseas for up to six months, so migrants can stay longer if they are needed

The UK now has more food banks than McDonald’s restaurants. Unseen by most of us, a parallel food supply chain has sprung up across the UK thetimes.co.uk/article/food-b… If you thought of food banks as something small-scale, homegrown, benignly amateurish, then a visit to the Nechells operation - a nondescript industrial estate Birmingham - would make you think again

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: A young man who accused Chris Pincher of groping him is angry at Boris Johnson for failing to suspend him immediately thetimes.co.uk/article/chris-… The man, who is in his mid-twenties, claims the party’s initial reticence to discipline Pincher, the deputy chief whip, left him “furious” and “shell-shocked”

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Prince Charles gave an honour to a controversial Tory peer who spent £1.7m bailing out his failed eco-village in a string of secretive deals thetimes.co.uk/article/prince… Prince Charles presented Lord Brownlow with the award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after accepting millions of pounds in donations from him

Martin Shkreli was the reviled ‘pharma bro’ hedge funder who inflated the price of life-saving drugs and was jailed for fraud.

@ChristieSmythe was the reporter who quit her marriage and job for him.

Why? @LFPullman finds out 👇
thetimes.co.uk/article/i-left… The Bloomberg News journalist had led the way reporting on Shkreli, who had become America’s pantomime villain.

Smythe was plotting a book about the so-called “Pharma Bro”; her husband had warned that she was becoming too tangled in his web

The government is considering a temporary relaxation of night-flight restrictions under emergency plans to ease the chaos at airports this summer
thetimes.co.uk/article/restri… Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, is understood to be examining the proposal, intended to ease the pressure by allowing longer intervals between flight departures

Boris Johnson is facing three new threats to his leadership with MPs discussing defections thetimes.co.uk/article/six-to… More than 30 MPs are understood to have submitted letters to the 1922 Committee of backbenchers demanding a confidence vote only three weeks after the last ballot, which the prime minister narrowly won

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The Prince of Wales accepted a suitcase containing €1m in cash from a controversial Qatari politician, The Sunday Times reveals
thetimes.co.uk/article/charle… It one was one of three lots of cash, totalling €3m, which Prince Charles personally received from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar, between 2011 and 2015

As the 20-year-old prepares to become Glastonbury’s youngest headliner tonight, she opens up about body image, exploitation and the ‘unnatural’ life of a superstar
thetimes.co.uk/article/billie… Time warps for Billie Eilish. This year she will visit 47 cities over six months on a worldwide tour, but in many ways “it feels like I’m never moving”, she says.

“It feels very limbo”

The PM survived the confidence vote but has three months to convince his party he is still electable. He is clinging to research suggesting swing voters haven’t lost faith thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-… Lord Frost, his former Brexit minister, said last week that Johnson now has to “set a clear policy direction . . . between now and the party conference”.

That is a little over 100 days away

The Duke of Cambridge turns 40 next week and the big birthday brings big changes - the family is moving from London to Berkshire thetimes.co.uk/article/prince… Prince George & Princess Charlotte will leave their prep school, Thomas’s Battersea, at the end of this term & are expected to enrol at a private co-educational school in the county that is also home to the duchess’s parents, in Bucklebury, a 45-minute drive from Windsor Castle