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Kemi Badenoch is taking Starmer’s ‘say nothing’ approach – and it will come back to bite her if she wins

The long Conservative leadership contest is at last in the final straight. On Saturday, we’ll find out whether Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick is...

01.11.2024 80

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Leadership drama? Shotgun marriage with Reform? The Tory party’s next move will define its future

I don’t know if it’s just the extent to which Conservative activists were gaslit by the polling and CCHQ’s abject campaign, but the mood among...

05.07.2024 20

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Sunak took the fight to Starmer in the last debate, but can’t progress with a party smothered by sleaze

Freedom, as the song has it, is “just another word for nothing left to lose”. So, with most voters having long since made up their minds (and...

27.06.2024 5

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A large dollop of Australian voters say their preferred prime minister is … Peter Craig Dutton

17.06.2024 30

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A D-day disaster, dodgy leaflets and policies pulled out of thin air – no wonder Tory troops are in despair

In politics as in war, an ambush can be a devastatingly effective tactic. Catching your opponent off-guard and out of position has often seen...

17.06.2024 70

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A great Tory reckoning is coming – but the party won’t split along the lines you’d expect

Populism is one of those political words that conceals as much as it illuminates. While I’m sure there are academics who could give me some rigorous...

29.05.2024 60

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Tory MPs didn’t expect a July general election – and now they are rightly furious

If the prime minister’s announcement of a snap election had been an event in a scripted drama, we might accuse the director of laying it on a little...

23.05.2024 100

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Unloved but unchallenged, Sunak appears safe – because only a fool would want his job now

How to react to unfolding calamity? Tory MPs took different approaches. “Disastrous. Worse than I expected and pointing to a total wipeout.”...

06.05.2024 70

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Rishi Sunak has staked his premiership on Rwanda – but the electorate will punish him for it

The government’s current position on the Rwanda scheme is unlikely to boost its electoral hopes – and to understand why, we should look to David...

24.04.2024 50

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A PM with no credo and a paltry record, a party with no plan or direction. That’s the Tories now

There is a point past which weakness becomes its own form of security, and that is the paradoxical position in which Rishi Sunak now finds himself....

19.02.2024 10

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Here’s Sunak’s problem in deciding the election date: things are very bad now – and they could get much worse

The news that Jeremy Hunt will deliver next year’s budget on 6 March sparked a fresh round of speculation that Rishi Sunak may be intending a spring...

28.12.2023 10

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s priorities – cartoon

08.12.2023 30

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Rishi Sunak is in an impossible bind – and even allies like Robert Jenrick are deserting him

Robert Jenrick’s decision to resign as immigration minister over the alleged shortcomings of the government’s new safety of Rwanda bill is the...

07.12.2023 10

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