Browsing: The Guardian

The Guardian says Liz Truss has dismissed as “sabre-rattling” Vladimir Putin’s warning that Russia will use “all the means at our disposal” to protect itself, warning in her UN speech: “This will not work.”

The Guardian says Kwasi Kwarteng will tighten benefit rules for part-time workers, requiring them to work longer hours or take steps to increase their earnings.

The Guardian says A Briton who was threatened with execution after being captured by Russian forces during the siege of Mariupol has been released alongside four other Britons and five international prisoners after the intervention of Saudi Arabia.

The Guardian has world reaction to Vladimir Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons.
US President Joe Biden has condemned Mr Putin’s “imperial ambitions” and threats to deploy Russia’s nuclear arsenal, the Guardian reports.

Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, Mr Biden sought to unite the international community and described the invasion as being about “extinguishing Ukraine’s right to exist”, the paper says.

The Guardian says One of Liz Truss’s ministers has said her government’s approach can in “no way” be described as “trickle down economics”, despite the prime minister urging world leaders to join the UK in introducing far-reaching tax cuts.

The Guardian says Homes acquired with “dirty money” in the richest parts of London could be seized and turned into affordable housing under plans to crack down on oligarchs using Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Mayfair “to rinse their money”.

The Guardian says A man who appeared to grab the flag draped over the Queen’s coffin planned to trespass at royal residences including Buckingham Palace because he did not believe she was dead, a court has heard.

The Guardian says The pilot of a plane in which the footballer Emiliano Sala died told a friend the aircraft was “dodgy”, after an outward flight from Cardiff to Nantes.

The Guardian says A man has set himself alight near the Japanese prime minister’s office, apparently in protest against next week’s state funeral for the country’s former prime minister, Shinzo Abe.

The Guardian leads with international scepticism of Liz Truss’s plan to cut taxes in the current economic climate. The paper reports on the stark differences between Liz Truss and US president Joe Biden’s views over economic policy. Ms Truss is set to “urge world leaders to join Britain” in introducing wide-ranging tax cuts, with the paper reporting her embrace of a low-tax agenda “put her on a collision course” with Mr Biden at their first bilateral talks on Wednesday.