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Liz Truss was always Labour’s preferred candidate to win the Tory leadership race because they finally get to face someone who they think they can beat. And it’s not just Labour strategists and the polls — Tories from all wings of the party feel like this could be the beginning…

Conservative leadership hopefuls have been touting themselves as the candidate Labour fears the most since the contest kicked off last month.

Former Tory seats have been lost to Labour in Wakefield and the Liberal Democrats in Tiverton and Honiton

Despite 41% of his MPs voting against him, the prime minister has vowed to continue

There is a clammy, sticky feeling of shame I can’t shake when I consider Westminster now. Cowardice, bullying, lying and ambition oozes out of every antiquated orifice. Sexual aggression, an out-of-control drinking culture, ministers who are free to throw things at the staff and get away with it. Rules that…

The sad death of Minder star Dennis almost provided me with some material for this column, but the education secretary scuppered it

Keir Mudie says if Keir Starmer gets a fine he is going to go, which would – in normal circumstances – mean Boris Johnson would have to go as well. After all, the PM has been fined for parties

It is not quite true to suggest that the State Opening of Parliament is all style over substance. No doubt, there’s quite a lot of pomp and ceremony on display. Horse-drawn, gold-plated carriages, doors theatrically slammed in Black Rod’s face and ermine as far as the eye can bear.

Body language expert Judi James has run the rule over the Prime Minister’s apology for a Partygate fine - and says his solemn pauses sped up like a train to suggest he’d finished and moved onto bigger things