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The Metro says Protesters holding signs reading ‘Who voted for this?’ were dragged away after disrupting Liz Truss’s’ speech at the Tory conference.

The Independent says Former prime minister Gordon Brown has warned Liz Truss of a “national uprising” if she fails to uprate benefits in line with inflation, as a fresh Cabinet rift threatened to open up over the matter ahead of her make-or-break Conservative Party conference speech.

Prime Minister Liz Truss will deliver her Tory conference speech today to explain why she thinks the current disruption caused by her economic policies will be worth it.

The Metro says Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is set to make another dramatic U-turn and lay out his plan to get UK debt falling earlier than planned.

The Independent says Liz Truss has refused to confirm whether benefits will be uprated in line with soaring inflation, meaning some of the poorest could face a real-term cut to their income.

The first preliminary hearing of the UK Covid public inquiry will start today following a delay after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Kwasi Kwarteng suggests Liz Truss took decision to U-turn on 45p rate – video

The controversial mini-Budget has stirred up the press and led to some dramatic headlines, government u-turns and finger-pointing. 

The Guardian says You know that the first mini-budget hasn’t gone down that well when before you’ve even been in office for a month “resign” is trending on Twitter, and following Monday’s climbdown over the abolishment of the 45p tax rate, social media was awash with people poking fun at the prime minister, Liz Truss, and her beleaguered chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng.

The Sun says LIZ Truss, by her own admission, handled the presentation of the mini-Budget badly.