- Foreign affairs committee chair Alicia Kearns said the UK has only done a “half job” on industrial strategy and urged the government to take “solid action” and “follow through” at the global AI summit in November.
- A growing divide among Conservatives over the prospect of Home Secretary Suella Braverman being the party's next leader if they lose the next general election has spilled out into the open at the Tory conference in Manchester.
- Former Prime Minister Liz Truss has been accused of "Corbynite Toryism" after a disruptive fringe event at Conservative Party Conference where she set out her stall on growth to hundreds of Tory Party activists.
- Conservative Mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street has vowed that he will not let the government scrap HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester “without a fight”.
- Foreign Secretary James Cleverly warned that if China invaded Taiwan it could "collapse" the Chinese economy, but insisted the UK has huge influence in the attempt to curb the power of China.
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