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Kemi Badenoch "is their project, she is the person they want to be leader." Former culture secretary Nadine Dorries says the Tories need to ... Show more   trib.al/oLu8tpN
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🗣 'The SNP have come too close to backing deeply regressive policies in the past to not warrant concern over which path they will choose'

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Can anyone save the Tory party?: Many Conservative MPs seem either not to have noticed or not to care about the impending doom facing the party.
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Can anyone save the Tory party?
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The Conservatives cannot guarantee the security of their leadership election: Experts say an online poll to elect a head of government, implemented in less than ...
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The Conservatives cannot guarantee the security of their leadership ...
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Liz Truss’s resignation shows parliamentary democracy is working, not failing: Until we get our say in a general election, MPs are performing their ...
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Liz Truss’s resignation shows parliamentary democracy is working ...
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Tory members can’t say nobody warned them: The party would pick Rishi Sunak for leader today, but he did tell them this disaster was coming all along.
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Tory members can’t say nobody warned them
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End the Tory leadership race now and fix the energy bills crisis: The energy price cap has risen by 80 per cent from £1,971 to a staggering £3,549 today ...
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End the Tory leadership race now and fix the energy bills crisis
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Tory chairman criticises Nadine Dorries' call to change course: Ex-culture secretary Nadine Dorries says the government is facing a "wipeout" at the next ...
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Tory chairman criticises Nadine Dorries' call to change course
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Ken Clarke: ‘The idea that tax cuts will automatically produce growth is nonsense’
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Ken Clarke: ‘The idea that tax cuts will automatically produce growth is ...
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Liz Truss: Who is new UK PM taking over from Boris Johnson?: The five-week-long UK leadership election has finished, and Liz Truss has been declared the new ...
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Liz Truss: Who is new UK PM taking over from Boris Johnson?
Quick Glance: Liz Truss unveils her Cabinet after being sworn in as the United Kingdom's next Prime Minister.
  • The prime minister has decided to keep defence secretary Ben Wallace from Mr Johnson's cabinet.

  • Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Minister for Intergovernmental Relations, and Minister for Equalities Nadhim Zahawi The prime minister has appointed the former Health Secretary and Chancellor to a number of positions.

  • The former Lord Chancellor and South Swindon MP has retained his position as Secretary of State for Wales.

  • Previously, the Charnwood MP served as Minister of State for Health.
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Nicola Sturgeon points out key flaw in Liz Truss's indyref2 plans: LIZ Truss faces a battle to unite the Tory Party after a less than decisive leadership ...
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Nicola Sturgeon points out key flaw in Liz Truss's indyref2 plans
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Liz Truss will become the United Kingdom’s next prime minister after winning the support of her Conservative party. Laura Barrón-López reports on the shift ... Show more   to.pbs.org/3BcV6Zs
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Rishi Sunak vs Liz Truss: Tory leadership election voting officially closes: Voting has closed, the ballots are being counted and the end of the Boris Johnson ...
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Rishi Sunak vs Liz Truss: Tory leadership election voting officially ...
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Liz Truss dismissal of ‘attention seeker’ Sturgeon will horrify Scots, says SNP: Tory activists cheered leadership favourite when she said first minister should ...
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China condemns ‘irresponsible’ Liz Truss over plan to raise threat status: Beijing has accused Liz Truss of being irresponsible after reports that she would ...
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China condemns ‘irresponsible’ Liz Truss over plan to raise threat status
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Why the Tory contest is missing a Rory Stewart: The former minister and MP Rory Stewart has been so scathing recently about the government it’s easy to forget he ...
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Why the Tory contest is missing a Rory Stewart
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Can Liz Truss resist becoming Boris 2.0?: In two weeks’ time the Conservatives’ seemingly interminable leadership election will be over and Liz Truss will ...
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Can Liz Truss resist becoming Boris 2.0?
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When will Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak get real about the NHS?: Clobbered by endless reform, Covid and an ageing population, the weather-beaten NHS is in peril ...
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When will Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak get real about the NHS?
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Backlash after Liz Truss accuses 'woke' civil service of antisemitism: Liz Truss, the frontrunner in the Tory leadership race, has been asked to ...
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Backlash after Liz Truss accuses 'woke' civil service of ...
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Culture warrior Kemi Badenoch is already a winner with Tory right: Former minister surfing anti-‘woke’ wave is unlikely to become PM but should land plum cabinet ...
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Culture warrior Kemi Badenoch is already a winner with Tory right
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The Tory party has been infected by a purist brainworm: You may not have heard of Euhaplorchis californiensis. It is a parasite that enters a fish through the ...
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The Tory party has been infected by a purist brainworm
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What would tax cuts mean for public services?: Tax cuts have dominated the Conservative leadership contest, with many promising cuts for individuals (on income ...
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What would tax cuts mean for public services?
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Three vital numbers are missing from the Tory leadership contest: Liz Truss’s Claire’s Accessories earrings: £4.50 (compared with Rishi Sunak’s £3,500 suit) ...
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Three vital numbers are missing from the Tory leadership contest
Quick Glance: Liz Truss says she will repeal Blair's prohibition on grammar schools.
  • The foreign secretary, whose own children attend a grammar school, supports restoring Tony Blair's 1998 prohibition on new selective schools.

  • Grammar schools continue to be a touchstone issue for many Tory members.

  • Truss has stated that she is a "huge supporter of grammar schools" on the Conservative Home website.

  • "My two daughters now attend a grammar school," she continued, "and I want people all over the country to have the option that we have to send our daughters to a grammar school."
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The Tory leadership race: a 40C fever dream where 0.2% of the UK decide our next leader
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The Tory leadership race: a 40C fever dream where 0.2% of the UK decide ...
Quick Glance: Redwood accuses Sunak of harming the economy by "too much money printing"
  • During Sunday night's ITV leadership discussion, Truss chastised Sunak for "raising taxes to a 70-year high" while offering promises to decrease National Insurance and business tax.

  • "Raising taxes at this moment will choke off economic growth," she said.

  • Redwood concluded that there is a "significant body" of Conservative MPs who agree with Sunak about the need for "higher [personal] taxes and […] higher business taxes"

  • "[They] think as he does that you can get faster growth from here whilst hiking taxes."
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Will the Tory leadership race kill net zero?: The Conservative leadership race is dividing observers, as moments of suspense often do, into optimists and cynics ...
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Will the Tory leadership race kill net zero?
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Why the Tories don’t care about deficits any more: Whatever happened to the deficit? For almost a decade the gap between what the government got in taxes and ...
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Why the Tories don’t care about deficits any more
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Conservative Party members are more pragmatic than you think: What do you think of when you imagine the Tory party faithful? Pearl and Barbour-clad ...
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Conservative Party members are more pragmatic than you think
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The Tory leadership candidates are desperately short of new ideas: The UK leads the world in decline: no major economy other than Russia is forecast to perform ...
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The Tory leadership candidates are desperately short of new ideas
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Boris Johnson’s resignation is a problem for Keir Starmer: On 6 July, as Tory cabinet ministers resigned en masse, Boris Johnson hinted he would call a snap ...
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Boris Johnson’s resignation is a problem for Keir Starmer