Inside Kemi Badenoch’s shadow cabinet
The Tory leader bids to appease the party’s warring factions.
ByRobert Jenrick
The Conservatives gamble on Kemi Badenoch
Does the new leader have the temperament to rescue a party in crisis?
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Robert Jenrick: shapeshifter or ideologue?
Critics think he is a populist willing to say anything, allies defend him as a principled reformer.
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Tory leadership debate: Jenrick fails to catch Badenoch
There was a clear winner, and several missed opportunities.
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Why Tory centrists are hopeless at leadership elections
Conservative MPs try to second-guess the membership rather than voting with conviction.
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James Cleverly crashes out as the Tories lurch to the right
Party members will decide between Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick.
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The Tories have a chance – but only if they elect a leader willing to disrupt
Questioning bankrupt orthodoxies is a step towards devising workable solutions.
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The Tories are in a different world to voters
There are whole swathes of the electorate to whom the party seems to offer almost nothing.
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The row over Labour’s “freebies” will carry on
Handouts stick with voters inured to thinking of politicians as greedy.
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The Tories are still in denial
Voters want economic interventionism, not reheated Thatcherism.
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Who’s got the edge in the Tory leadership contest?
Kemi Badenoch is the clear frontrunner – but party members are notoriously difficult to poll.
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What do Tory members want?
The grassroots want a leader who is ideologically aligned with them but also credible and competent.
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Will Robert Jenrick’s Tory leadership pitch work?
The former immigration minister has transformed himself from a One Nation centrist into a right-wing firebrand.
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Why the immigration minister job has been split in two
Creating a minister for “legal migration” and a minister for “illegal migration” reveals a telling calculation.
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Conservative MPs have given up on the next election
The Tory Party’s open warfare over the Rwanda plan shows Rishi Sunak’s waning authority.
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Robert Jenrick furthers his own migration to the upper Tory ranks
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Robert Jenrick and the return of prison hulks
The immigration minister is reopening a dark chapter in British history.
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Why Robert Jenrick is the worst cabinet minister you haven’t heard of
The idea that the government should be taking active steps towards making housing cheaper seems not to have occurred to…
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