All the papers lead with Liz Truss winning the Tory leadership contest to become the UK's next prime minister. "Straight to business," says the Times as it reports that Ms Truss is expected to freeze energy bills for every household in one of her first acts in the new job."Cometh the hour, cometh the woman" is the headline in the Daily Mail, who says no prime minister since Margaret Thatcher "has faced a tougher in-tray".
It says Conservative prime ministers over the past 12 years have "wrecked the economy, trashed our public services, left millions worse off".Turning to her policy plans as prime minister, the i says Ms Truss is drawing up plans with her likely chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, to lock households' gas and electricity bills at the current average of £1,971 until the end of January. The paper hears the energy lock is expected to be universal and benefit all homes.
£ 4.3bn furlough write off, £37bn test and trace, £80mn Big Ben (est £29mn), Westminster refurb est £22bn. Money continually wasted being clawed back via cost of living and everyday essentials; the taxpayer a revenue stream for our so called elite. It feels like a Greed Crisis !