The Times also goes big on the second day of the Tory conference, telling its readers that Mr Sunak has brought an “axe down on HS2 in the north”. An unnamed source, who the paper describes as being “familiar with the prime minister’s thinking”, says the project was “based on old assumptions” and that the Covid pandemic “has changed the nature of travel”. There is also a large image of Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch, who used her own speech to tell delegates that the UK is the “best country in which to be black”.