Liz Truss seeks to implement reset with Treasury U-turns, charm offensive and likely backdown over benefits – live - The Guardian

1. Liz Truss seeks to implement reset with Treasury U-turns, charm offensive and likely backdown over benefits – live  The Guardian
2. Liz Truss reaches out to MPs after Tory splits exposed  bbc.co.uk
3. Liz Truss: 10 of the new prime minister’s biggest gaffes and awkward moments  The Independent
4. Liz Truss to hold meetings with Tory MPs in bid to woo critics  Evening Standard
5. In charm's way: Liz Truss will show MPs she's listening  The Times
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Early evening summary

• Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng, the chancellor, have abandoned plans to impose an outsider as the new permanent secretary in the Treasury. In a move that marks a significant retreat from the agenda championed by Truss during the Tory leadership campaign, when she identified “Treasury orthodoxy” as one of the factors holding back Britain, Truss and Kwarteng gave the Treasury job to James Bowler, who has spent most of his career at the department, instead of Antonio Romeo, the outsider who last week was all but guaranteed to get the job. Truss’s disregard for financial orthodoxy in her first five weeks in office has alarmed the financial markets, and put Conservative party poll ratings into freefall, and today’s move amounts to a significant reset. (See 1.28pm and 3.37pm.) It suggests she wants to govern more consensually, in collaboration with the UK’s economic establishment, not at war with it. The Bowler appointment coincided with the Treasury bringing forward by three weeks the publication of its fiscal plan and the Office for Budget Responsibility’s economic forecast (which will rule on the financial credibility Kwarteng’s £43bn tax cuts). See 10.18am. This was also a concession to Truss’s critics, who have complained about the way Kwarteng sidelined the OBR by not letting it publish a forecast alongside his mini-budget.

• Nicola Sturgeon has told the Scottish National party’s annual conference that independence makes the “case for optimism” in troubled times, and promised Scotland “a steady and compassionate hand on the tiller”.

• Conor Burns has said that the decision to sack him as a minister over a groping allegation that has not yet been investigated, and which he denies, was a breach of natural justice. (See 4.01pm.)

• Downing Street has distanced itself from reports that Suella Braverman wished to reclassify marijuana as a class A drug amid sniping from parliamentary colleagues that the home secretary was failing to fall into line with government policies.

Liz Truss meeting members of England women's football team today. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/AFP/Getty Images

Douglas Ross, the Scottish Conservative leader, has claimed Scots will be dismayed by Nicola Sturgeon’s speech. In a statement he said:Ordinary Scots watching Nicola Sturgeon’s narrow, independence-obsessed speech will have been dismayed at her skewed priorities.

This was red meat for the SNP faithful but it didn’t even have the pretence of being the speech of a first minister of Scotland.

It beggars belief that in the midst of a global cost-of-living crisis – which ought to be her top priority – Nicola Sturgeon devoted so much of her speech to the push for another divisive referendum that most Scots don’t want.

She has taken her eye off the ball again and proved that the SNP will never put the people’s priorities first. Their own, self-serving, constitutional obsession always takes priority over everything.

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