August - in which the Tories holidayed and attended hustings whilst the cost-of-living crisis escalated, allowed our rivers to be polluted and admitted channelling funds to wealthy areas, and their Brexit continued to hit businesses, farmers, musicians and holidaymakers

1st

 

Cost of living crisis: UK has done less to ease burden of high petrol prices than other nations in Europe, figures suggest

 

UK businesses slash investments due to soaring prices and Brexit

 

Businesses are starting to get fed up as Brexit batters the economy

 

More than 1m people in England waiting for non-hospital care, leak reveals

 

2nd

 

Revealed: ‘Apocalyptic’ A&E waits that could be driving 1,000 patient deaths a month

 

Liz Truss plan to cut £11bn in Whitehall waste ‘ludicrous’

 

DEFRA pressured officials to clear ports giant over Whitby crab deaths

 

Liz Truss U-turns on public sector pay cut in just 12 hours

 

DEFRA SLAMMED FOR PUBLISHING ONLY 1/3 OF BIODIVERSITY INDICATORS

 

3rd

 

Spiralling inflation, crops left in the field and travel chaos: 10 reasons Brexit has been disastrous for Britain

 

4th

 

‘Science superpower’ plan risks making UK bureaucracy superpower, says peer

 

After Liz Truss’s pay cuts U-turn, which other Tory candidate pledges don’t add up?

 

Lost funding, unwelcome moves: UK researchers speak out on ERC ‘disaster’

 

5^th

 

Tory leadership: I took money out of deprived urban areas, says Sunak

 

No emergency cost of living help for at least a month, says minister

 

RISHI SUNAK, INFOSYS &A Legacy of Financial Issues

 

This Government is gaslighting us while the country falls apart

 

6^th

 

British farmers face paying for border checkpoints in EU after Brexit halts exports

 

‘Hive of inactivity’: Boris Johnson under fire for approach to final weeks as PM

 

Shell and BP to share in huge giveaway that will blow hole in windfall tax gains:£7.5bn taxpayer handout for oil titans

 

7^th

 

‘Zombie government’: more than half of departments delay key decisions

 

Leaked report suggests Dominic Raab trying to curb judges’ powers

 

Armed police sent to cardiac arrest patients as crisis-hit NHS buckles under surging demand

 

8^th

 

DIY dentistry on the rise as 90% of NHS practices not seeing new patients

 

10^th

Brexit stage left: British band tells of farcical barriers encountered on EU tour

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Labour blasts ‘absurd’ tax regime after report shows oil giant Shell received £100m from UK

 

Exclusive: Liz Truss campaign hints at U-turn on conversion therapy ban

 

11^th

 

No new measures to help with cost of living after crisis talks between Boris Johnson and energy bosses​

Tories face questions over £500,000 of donations linked to bribery-accused banker

Biggest UK fall in real wages for 100 years looms, warns TUC

 

Liz Truss’s solar panel crackdown ‘more pain for farmers’ MPs and campaigners warn

 

Superdry boss warns shoppers will choose Europe over Britain

 

12^th

 

Truss 2, Kwarteng 164: wide variance in ministers’ declared meetings​

Liz Truss accused of offensive remarks about Jewish people and civil service

 

Rishi Sunak splashes £400,000 on new swimming pool as Britons battle soaring bills

 

13^th

 

Brexit threatening endangered species as red tape hits zoo breeding programmes

 

14^th

 

Ministers admit 34 hospital buildings in England have roofs that could collapse

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How UK’s broken promises have left Afghans living in terror for a year and counting

Boris Johnson spotted in Greece on second holiday in two weeks amid cost of living crisis

 

British minister accused of trying to hide reports on impact of Tory welfare reforms

 

15^th

 

England ‘failing to invest in water networks to avoid future droughts’

 

Amazon could avoid UK tax for two more years thanks to Rishi Sunak’s tax break

 

Up to £60m in UK crops left to rot owing to lack of workers, says NFU

 

Ministers planning to cut civil servant redundancy pay at same time as 91,000 jobs

 

16^th

 

‘Serious concerns’ over Covid booster rollout as GPs say they can’t afford to offer jabs

 

Cost of living crisis: Wages plunge at record pace as bills soar

 

Leaked audio reveals Liz Truss said British workers needed ‘more graft’

 

Rwanda asylum scheme: Warning over political killings before UK flight

 

17^th

 

Grant Shapps’ bike licence plates proposal ‘a strange and pointless idea’

 

​ 18^th

 

Tax cuts pledged by Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak not possible without slashingspending, economists say

 

Two-thirds of UK families could be in fuel poverty by January, research finds

 

Liz Truss called for patients to be charged for GP visits, 2009 paper reveals

 

19^th

 

Liz Truss accused of delaying human rights report over criticism of Rwanda

 

The Conservative Leadership Contest has Exposed the Big Lie About Brexit

 

Government to make it easier for landlords to evict people who fall behind on rent

 

Revealed: Liz Truss personally supported cuts to NHS and doctors’ pay

 

Tories attack Labour council for hiring homelessness prevention staff

 

20^th

 

Boris Johnson’s flagship jobs scheme was a failure, new figures reveal

 

21^st

 

Patients taken to hospital in fire engines as firefighters respond to rocketing medical calls

 

Sewage pumped into environment over a million times since 2016, new figures show

 

Staffing crisis leaves many English care home residents’ basic needs unmet

 

Government ‘has lost the plot’ over plan for GPs to prescribe heating bill discounts

 

22^nd

 

Liz Truss ‘has sewage on her hands’ over Environment Agency cuts

 

​23^rd

 

Funding for England’s parks down £330m a year in real terms since 2010

 

24^th

 

Liz Truss plan to divert NHS billions to social care like ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’

 

Tories offer access to new chancellor for £3,000

 

Emily Maitlis says ‘active Tory party agent’ shaping BBC news output

 

GCSE results expected to confirm widening of north-south attainment gap

 

25^th

Tory peer faces second investigation over lobbying allegations​

 

26^th

 

Dominic Raab made Parole Board’s ‘difficult job next to impossible’

 

New government plan to stop sewage spills branded ‘joke’ and ‘licence to pollute’

 

Tories in disarray over energy crisis as Truss urged to spell out plans to help

 

28^th

 

Government scraps plan to enforce human rights with Brexit trade deals, leaked letter reveals

​ 29^th

 

Energy bills soaring because of government failure not Ukraine, says ex-Tory adviser

 

Home Office accused of deliberately leaving anti-slavery post unfilled

 

30^th

 

Eurostar to axe direct trains between London and Disneyland Paris due to Brexit

 

31^st

 

Priti Patel’s plans to fast-track removal of Albanian asylum seekers ‘could violate law’

 

Plans to sell £1.5bn of UK government offices based on ‘fantasy’, say critics

 

Medically fit patients waiting months to be discharged from England’s hospitals