The Latest Breaking News from Kemi Badenoch

Shadow home secretary calls for unity in opposition, after comments from Suella Braverman and Kemi Badenoch

Tory leadership contender says views of ‘activists, members and friends who lost seats after giving everything to campaign’ matter

Conservative Party descends into infighting after outspoken leadership candidate rips into Rishi Sunak’s election blunders

Andrew Mitchell becomes shadow foreign secretary and Kemi Badenoch moves to communities in new lineup

Robert Jenrick, Priti Patel and Kemi Badenoch, who have all ruled out deal with Reform, seen as more viable candidates

Senior figures tell the party not to rush into choosing a new leader, citing 2005 and David Cameron as a successful precedent

The likely main contenders to succeed Rishi Sunak, broadly ordered by their place on the political spectrum

Nigel Farage’s party won more than 4m votes and came second in 98 seats, of which 89 were won by Labour

Rerefence has been calld ‘funny’ and ‘iconic’

By the time Sir Keir Starmer spoke of the “sunlight of hope” in the early hours, it was more a matter for the Conservatives of who was left standing under the rubble of a Labour landslide than salvaging dignity. Rishi Sunak’s dejected expression said it all — holding his North…

After a catastrophic defeat the party has kicked off its own election to pick Rishi Sunak’s successor