Newspaper headlines: 'Tory infighting' and 'energy crisis is price to avoid world war'

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Voting has now closed in the Tory leadership race

Many of Sunday's front pages focus on the Tory leadership contest, with just one day left until the nation discovers who will be the next prime minister.

The Sunday Telegraph, external - in which Foreign Secretary Liz Truss sets out her stall - gives her its wholehearted support. The paper says that if she wins, the country will get a principled, classical liberal pro-market, well-read, economically literate and policy-driven prime minister. But it also says Ms Truss "must reform our broken energy market".

The Observer, external says Ms Truss has been warned not to pack her cabinet with Boris Johnson loyalists. Some senior Tories believe she will lead MPs to defeat unless she includes figures from across the party.

The outgoing prime minister tells the Sunday Express, external that the Tories must end their "bitter in-fighting". Boris Johnson urges colleagues to back his successor wholeheartedly, to stand a chance of winning the next general election.

There is slim hope of that if the Sunday Mirror, external is to be believed. It claims to have unearthed a plot by a dozen Tory MPs, to submit letters of no confidence in Ms Truss and bring Mr Johnson back. One of them is quoted saying: "Liz is not very bright." Another adds: "our only chance is with Boris."

The Sun on Sunday, external says voters are sick and tired of the Tory civil war which ousted Boris Johnson. It suggests the leadership contest felt longer than the 30 years war - and says the new prime minister has a clear duty: stop the fighting and deliver.