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After winning the Conservative party’s protracted post-election leadership contest, Kemi Badenoch gave a short, rather downbeat speech. It was not quite “blood, toil, tears and sweat”, but it wasn’t too far off. Badenoch said the tasks in front of the party were “tough but simple”: to oppose and scrutinise the…

NEW Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has appointed a new shadow secretary of state for Scotland.

The Department for Transport has disputed claims that the 50 per cent rise in the cap on a single bus ticket equates to a 1p rise in income tax

Traditionally, Britain was regarded as the class society. And class was pre-eminent among the factors used to explain political party allegiance. In broad terms, working-class voters chose Labour, the party set up to represent them. Middle-class voters chose the Conservatives, the party that represented homeowners and business owners.

The newly elected Tory leader said the story was exaggerated as she praised Boris Johnson as a ‘great prime minister’

PM to address border crisis amid concern that small boats crossing Channel will remain key issue this parliament

Ms Badenoch will be at the helm as the party tries to recover in the wake of the July general election result.

The economy and immigration are two of the biggest issues the next leader of the Opposition will need to tackle.

Badenoch says Tories need ‘a clear plan to change this country by changing the way that government works’

It is well within this government’s power to rebuild our welfare state, says John McDonnell, shadow chancellor from 2015 to 2020

The Conservatives believe that they uniquely represent British values – so what need is there to admit the UK is changing? says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett