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Sunday morning UK news briefing: Today's top headlines from The Telegraph

Morning UK news briefing: Today's top headlines from The Telegraph
Morning UK news briefing: Today's top headlines from The Telegraph

Welcome to your early morning news briefing from The Telegraph - a round-up of the top stories we are covering today. To receive twice-daily briefings by email, sign up to our Front Page newsletter for free.

1. Rishi Sunak vows to ditch EU laws holding Britain back

Rishi Sunak on Saturday brandished his Brexiteer credentials, promising a bonfire of EU laws “getting in the way” of British businesses to trigger “a new Big Bang”.

Writing for The Telegraph, the former chancellor pledged that he will have “scrapped or reformed all of the EU law, red tape and bureaucracy that is still on our statute book and slowing economic growth” by the time of the next election if he succeeds Boris Johnson as prime minister. Read the full story.

2. Liz Truss: I’ll put an end to ‘Stalinist’ housing targets

Liz Truss has pledged to scrap “Whitehall-inspired Stalinist housing targets”, saying she would do away with “Labour approaches” in favour of tax cuts and deregulation to encourage firms to build new homes.

In an interview with The Telegraph, the Foreign Secretary declared that she would deliver “the biggest change in our economic policy for 30 years” to tackle decades of low growth and rising inflation. Read the full story.

3. UK weather: Work from home during heatwave, advises Cobra

The next couple of days “may be a moment to work from home” a senior Government minister has said as Britain braced for several days of extremely hot weather.

Cabinet Office Minister Kit Malthouse has warned that road and rail faced “significant disruption” due to the heatwave as he urged people to avoid travelling on Monday and Tuesday. Read the full story.

4. BBC apologises after interviewing transgender athlete who boasted of violence against women

The BBC has apologised for interviewing a transgender athlete who boasted about knocking women out, in a discussion about female-only sports.

Fallon Fox, an American former martial arts fighter, was invited onto BBC Radio 4’s Today programme last month after trans athletes were barred from women’s elite races if they have gone through male puberty. Read the full story.

5. The Queen and Prince Charles suggested Meghan fly to the US to reconcile with her father, book claims

The Duchess of Sussex rejected a suggestion by the Queen and the Prince of Wales that she fly to the US to reconcile with her father, a new book has claimed.

Tom Bower, a biographer who has written a book about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex entitled Revenge, claimed the Prince - and possibly the monarch - were “irritated” by the Duchess’s failure to make peace with Thomas Markle. Read the full story.

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