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The Tories needed to win conference season – but they lost it
For the first time since 1996, this looked like a Labour opposition destined for election victory.
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Keir Starmer’s speech made the Tories look like the opposition
The hopes that Rishi Sunak’s allies had for conference season have been wholly disappointed.
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Is Suella Braverman the future of the Conservative Party?
The Home Secretary’s conference speech was well received in Manchester.
On net zero, the Conservatives are increasingly estranged from business
At the Tories’ annual party conference, industry seemed more supportive of the green transition than senior politicians.
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The Conservative conference can’t take its eyes off Farage
Your dose of gossip from the Manchester Central Convention Complex.
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Rishi Sunak shows why he can’t be a “change candidate”
The Prime Minister spoke for himself rather than for voters.
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The new Conservative Party is being born
Tory conference is not a wake, as many claim. It is a christening.
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Andrew Boff’s removal is a symbol of the Tories’ self-destruction
The London Assembly chair is exactly the sort of liberal, urban voter the Conservative Party has not just lost, but…
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The Conservatives are bringing the culture war to the NHS
The Health Secretary’s conference speech focused on trans issues and union relations rather than waiting lists and staff shortages.
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Suella Braverman’s luxury hostilities
The Home Secretary will never solve the problems she so feverishly describes.
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Nigel Farage is the real star of the Tory conference
The former Ukip leader may be right to think the Conservatives will follow where he leads.
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Tory conference incoherence is holding the party back
Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives are no longer on the same page.
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The Conservatives are heading where the Republican Party led
Liz Truss and her allies are laying the ground for the radicalisation of the Tories in opposition.
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Jeremy Hunt speaks but who will listen?
The Chancellor’s speech was entirely overshadowed by Liz Truss and HS2.
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Liz Truss shows she’s going nowhere
The rapturous welcome for the former PM was a warning to Rishi Sunak.
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Why is Rishi Sunak so isolated?
At Conservative Party conference, the Prime Minister is lost between the factions.
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Preparing for a fight at Tory conference
Also this week: getting lost in Westminster and teenage regressions.
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The first reactionary
Edmund Burke may be the Conservatives’ philosopher king – but his thinking was more fickle than Tories seem to realise.
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Is there a future for moderates in the Conservative Party?
The Tories are turning on themselves even before a general election is called.
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