Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 20 August 2022

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1. Gove backs Rishi Sunak

Michael Gove has announced he will back Rishi Sunak to be the next Conservative Party leader. Writing for The Times, the former levelling up secretary said that Liz Truss’s refusal to offer more support over rising energy bills and to just focus on tax cuts marked a “holiday from reality”. He also announced that he will step down from frontline politics. “I do not expect to be in government again,” he wrote. “But it was the privilege of my life to spend 11 years in the cabinet under three prime ministers.”

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