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A round-up of the headlines from the UK front pages

Influential group of backbenchers could change critical rule that would allow another confidence vote to be brought against PM

Labour leads in polls as Tories hit by cabinet resignations

Prime minister told it is ‘game over’ as Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid quit government

The UK’s new chancellor faces rising inflation, a cost-of-living crisis, and demands for public-sector pay rises

Opposition would not rejoin the customs union or single market if voted in, says Keir Starmer

Prime minister loses both chancellor and health secretary within minutes amid Pincher row

Lord McDonald’s ‘highly damaging letter’ about Chris Pincher reignites questions about PM’s honesty

Priti Patel urging police to arrest motorists deliberately jamming up roads

Long-time correspondent and presenter seen as safe pair of hands during time of transition

Downing Street admits that PM was aware of media reports when deputy chief whip was appointed

Bible of parliamentary procedure is the glue that holds the UK’s unwritten constitution together

Chris Pincher quits as Tory deputy chief whip after reports of groping at the private club

‘Extraordinary banter’ from G7 met with more intense Russian missile strikes

Pundits argue it’s ‘back with a vengeance’ – and could transform the electoral arithmetic

Justice secretary claims gesture was intended for another Labour frontbencher

Privileges Committee begins taking evidence for investigation into Boris Johnson

Turkey, Finland and Sweden reach agreement to allow the two Nordic states to join Nato

Millions of US women have lost their right to terminate pregnancies following Supreme Court ruling

Politicians have crossed the floor for reasons ranging from Brexit to bids to reshape Britain’s two-party system

PM and French president find consensus over Ukraine during G7 summit in Bavaria

The PM faces a trio of challenges after two heavy losses at the polls

Party insiders worry their leader's lack of charisma may be holding Labour back

Ministers already talking of ‘Labour’s train strikes’, but many voters are open minded

New draft legislation seeks to abolish the Human Rights Act introduced into UK law in 1998

UK inflation has hit a 40-year high amid threats of further strikes by unions demanding wage increases for struggling workers

Labour and Lib Dems hoping to pick up seats vacated by Imran Ahmad Khan and Neil Parish

No. 10 admits speaking to The Times as ‘incendiary’ article was pulled

PM’s ethics chief quit this week, saying Johnson had put him in ‘an impossible and odious position’

Peer says he was put in an ‘impossible and odious position’