Just 72.8pc of eligible Tory members cast a ballot in a race that saw Kemi Badenoch crowned as the new Tory leader after defeating Robert Jenrick. It was also the lowest-ever number of votes cast ...

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch last night told her new shadow cabinet to take the fight to Labour, as she prepared for her first Commons clash with Sir Keir Starmer this afternoon. She said it was time ...

Keir Starmer must urgently dust off Tory plans for a free trade deal to avoid being damaged by Donald Trump's 'terrible' protectionist economic plans, Kemi Badenoch warned today. The new ...

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The new Tory leader comes across as “energetic and fresh-faced” with voters, but pollsters have said she needs to avoid being “overly combative”. “I think that is going to be the ...

For Kemi Badenoch, less is more. Before the Tory leadership TV showdown with rival Robert Jenrick, she'd declared: "I'm running a grassroots campaign, not a TV campaign or a media campaign." ...

A Tory MP and former minister has launched a plan to make Britain "vaguely civilised again" - including a national ban on playing music out loud on all public transport. Neil O'Brien, who ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A water company co-founded by the treasurer of the Conservative party is in discussions to take a stake in ...

A conservative MP has demanded a retrial for killer nurse Lucy Letby and says he is "90 odd per cent" certain that she is not guilty. David Davis made the remarks after spending several months ...

What is One Nation Conservatism? The group that refuses to back Badenoch or Jenrick Jenrick 'horse-trading' attack on rivals as he seeks to stay in Tory leader race Police trawled her electronic ...

After Tory leadership frontrunner Kemi Badenoch took on rival Robert Jenrick in a televised showdown, we ask who you think will ultimately go on to front the opposition. The head-to-head ...

The wife of a Conservative Party councillor has been jailed for two and half years after posting a tweet stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers on the day of the Southport attacks.