TRUSS’ EQUALITY REFORM: Whitehall and the private sector have been too focus on using targets and quotas to improve the prospects for poorer people, and should instead focus on promoting “equality of opportunity,” Foreign Secretary and Equalities Minister Liz Truss told the Sunday Telegraph.

New social mobility czar: Truss reveal that Katharine Birbalsingh, headteacher of the Michaela Community School in north London, has been appoint the head of the Social Mobility Commission. Birbalsingh is expect to examine how to help people start their own companies and to ensure every child receives a quality ucation in Maths and English.

MORE PATEL NEWS: Johnson has anger the home

secretary by overruling attempts to make public sexual harassment a crime, prompting concern at the Home Office that the prime minister views the issue as mere “wolf whistling,” writes the Observer.

AUSTRIAN LEADER STEPS DOWN: Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz resign Saturday evening, bowing to growing pressure over a bombshell corruption probe that has rock the country’s phone number database political establishment to its core, my Berlin colleague Matthew Karnitschnig writes. The conservative-Green coalition will stay in office, and Kurz has nominat Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg to replace him.

NO WAY BACK FOR ANDREW: Prince Andrew will not return to public life after the Royal Family clos the door on him and Prince William brand him a “threat” to the institution, according to the Sunday Times. Prince Andrew, who has been accus of sexually assaulting American Virginia Giuffre, is not facing any criminal charges and denies Giuffre’s claims.

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AQUIND DEAL: Kwasi Kwarteng must decide this week whether to approve a controversial £1.2 billion scheme to bring electricity to the U.K. from France. Aquind is seeking permission from the eu transparency government to build an interconnector in Portsmouth, but since it fil its application the company and other firms back by a Russian-born oil tycoon Viktor Fotov have made huge donations to the Conservative party and its politicians.

The business secretary, who has previously said hongkongdata he is in favor of more interconnectors to lower energy prices, told Marr he will take the decision bas on “official advice.” He did not address whether the party should return money it receiv from Fotov if permission is grant.

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BUSINESS LEADERS TO THE RESCUE: The Sunday Times ask business to share some of their practical solutions for getting the U.K. back on track and overcome supply shortages. The paper also ask top wonks from the UK in a Changing Europe think tank to assess which of Britain’s current troubles are down to COVID, and which can be blam on Brexit.