The return of Boris Johnson would be a disaster for the Tories
The scandals that left the front pages when Johnson departed for the back benches would resurface.
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Is Jeremy Hunt the Tory saviour?
The former health secretary is to become the new Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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The Tory leadership debate exposed the party’s brutal divisions
A Labour source described the exchanges between the rival candidates as “a generous gift” for Keir Starmer.
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Who is the front-runner for the Tory leadership?
Rishi Sunak leads among the candidates when the public is polled but Ben Wallace is currently the party membership’s favourite.
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1922 Committee elections: Johnson’s survival is not guaranteed
Tory rebels may soon gain more control of the 1922 Committee, meaning the PM could face a second no-confidence vote…
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Who in the cabinet has the courage to challenge Boris Johnson?
What the Tory rebellion has lacked all along is a Michael Heseltine-style figure.
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Will the Tories’ humiliating by-election defeats reignite the campaign to oust Boris Johnson?
The resignation of Conservative chairman Oliver Dowden shows the increasing unease at the top of the party.
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Team Truss are already truffling for a second no-confidence vote
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Graham Brady’s Diary: What the press got wrong about the confidence vote, and my very odd kind of celebrity
Press reports on how close I was to hearing from the requisite 54 Conservative MPs were almost always wide of…
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Why Tory leadership contenders should wield the knife against Boris Johnson
The claim that direct challengers to a leader never win the crown is a myth.
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Has Boris Johnson escaped yet again?
In Westminster, as his leadership rivals go quiet, the Prime Minister limps on as if the confidence vote never happened.
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The Tories remain the prisoners of market ideology
Boris Johnson’s party wills statist ends but it refuses to commit to statist means.
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Leader: Beyond the cynicism of Boris Johnson
The UK needs more than a new prime minister: it needs constitutional reform.
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The Tories’ fatal attraction to Boris Johnson
As in 1978, we are approaching the end of an era as the Conservatives flounder before events too big to…
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Boris Johnson wants to take his party (and the country) down with him
The Conservative Corbyn has nowhere to go after last night’s no-confidence vote.
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Boris Johnson is far from safe
The Prime Minister could soon face another no-confidence vote, say 1922 committee insiders.
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Boris Johnson is in real trouble
The strength of feeling against the Prime Minister has steadily worsened as wavering Tory rebels have finally acted.
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How does a no-confidence vote actually work?
The support of 54 Tory MPs is needed to trigger a confidence vote on Boris Johnson’s leadership.
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Why Tory MPs aren’t as good at regicide as they like to think
If past no-confidence votes are anything to go by, they won’t get rid of Boris Johnson.
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The Conservatives are doomed whether or not Boris Johnson survives
There is not a single candidate who seems capable of reuniting a hopelessly divided party.
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