If Liz Truss is now the frontrunner in this campaign, it is because it is clear that she understands what is broken about Britain - an unproductive economy that has almost stopped growing, tragically high inflation, crippling taxes, a dysfunctional housing market, woke institutions, stifling and incompetent bureaucracy and public services that are increasingly failing - and has started to provide refreshing answers to some of these with a dash of Thatcherite resolve. She also understands the importance of constitutional integrity, and not just when it comes to Brexit.
The Miami-Dade County school board couldn't make up its mind. It has voted three times in four months on whether students can use a particular textbook, "Comprehensive Health Skills," for sex education classes. The board for the state's largest district signed off in April, then banned it in July after some parents objected and told members that they'd be known as "groomers." That meant the cancellation of sex ed classes for more than 100,000 students. Board members reversed themselves again a week later. The first day of school in Florida is less than two weeks away, but officials are still plagued by confusion and uncertainty about what a raft of new laws championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) will mean.
Conservative MPs have condemned "divisive, disingenuous and disturbing" interventions against Rishi Sunak by the culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, including a tweet showing Sunak wielding a knife at Boris Johnson. Other Conservative ministers have condemned comments by Dorries, a supporter of Liz Truss, about Sunak's dress sense, after she compared his Savile Row suit with Truss' earrings from Claire's. One suggested it was deeply provocative for her to tweet the image of Sunak stabbing Johnson, in a parody of Julius Caesar, given two MPs have recently been murdered.
England and Wales have seen the driest start of the year since 1976 - when water rationing was introduced.It has raised concerns that the UK could be heading for a drought.The National Drought Group moved England into "Prolonged Dry Weather" status - the stage before a drought - at an emergency meeting.In the first three months of the year, England's rainfall was down 26% and in Wales it was down 22%.This meant, even before the summer started, that average river flows were "below normal" or "exceptionally low". July saw temperature records broken multiple times and rainfall is down 76%. Further periods of dry and hot weather are forecast by the Met Office.
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