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There are few policy reasons to change leader, so lack of campaigning nous of PM who ‘can’t do human’ may be only argument

He will get zero credit for good results and blame for all the bad. And hovering overhead is Penny Mordaunt, says the Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Opinion polls have the Commons leader being toppled in the general election, but voters in her constituency tell a different story

The mooted memorial to the navy’s West Africa Squadron seems to be an attempt to rewrite history in a more favourable light, says writer Ella Sinclair

Her allies maintain that she isn’t plotting against the PM

Labour lead would soar to 24 points if Kemi Badenoch or Suella Braverman became leader according to Opinium poll

Millions of women born in the 1950s are furious about not being told in a timely way about the rising state pension age

“Stop messing around” was Kemi Badenoch’s forthright advice to desperate Tory backbenchers, flirting with a Hail Mary leader switch before the election. The ex-defence secretary, Ben Wallace, who speaks as if addressing a slightly dim Army platoon, put the same thought just more pessimistically, as he urged colleagues to set…

Allies of Commons leader say other future candidates for top job are trying to make her look disloyal