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The Guardian - Truss delivers a new common enemy to fractured Tory party

Liz Truss has tried to unite her party around a common enemy of the “anti-growth coalition” of trade unions, remainers and green campaigners after a turbulent Tory conference left her leadership in peril, reads the front page of The Guardian

The paper described the four-day Tory party conference as “fractious”, ending with an “embattled” PM warning of “stormy days” ahead.

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