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Rishi Sunak 'could spring Brexit-style surprise' and beat Liz Truss
Grant Shapps suggests the ex-chancellor can still secure unexpected victory over Foreign Secretary in the battle for No 10
ByJack Maidment19 Aug 2022, 9:42am

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Sadiq Khan blames cost of living crisis for London crimewave
ByJack Hardy19 Aug 2022, 3:16pm
Rishi Sunak: We won’t lose our best farmland to solar panels
ByDaniel Martin18 Aug 2022, 9:00pm
SNP ditches ‘insulting’ plan to offer £50,000 grants to move to Scottish islands
ByDaniel Sanderson19 Aug 2022, 2:54pm
Lockdown effects feared to be killing more people than Covid
BySarah Knapton18 Aug 2022, 9:30pm
Telegraph readers feel the impact of inflation at the supermarket checkout
ByTelegraph Readers19 Aug 2022, 1:33pm
Over 50 illegal migrants aged 30 and above registered as children on UK arrival
ByCharles Hymas18 Aug 2022, 6:42pm

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Time to challenge the tax orthodoxy
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Britain may go hungry thanks to faulty eco dogma
Food prices are rising, but productive farmland is being converted into solar parks or woodland
Jamie Blackett
London is caught in a crime wave, and Sadiq Khan is to blame
Khan is Police and Crime Commissioner for the nation's capital. He bears ultimate responsibility for the breakdown of law and order
Shaun Bailey
A City super-regulator is a dead New Labour idea that Truss should leave buried
A bonfire of financial red tape risks creating a red-hot inferno of financial instability
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