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If there’s a star among the four candidates, who this week will be winnowed down to two, they are keeping it well disguised

Party figures say frontrunner will be brought down by the right if he tries to move to more moderate ground

From mild-mannered solicitor to right-wing standard-bearer, MP explains his political journey in exclusive interview

Former co-chair criticises party’s ‘hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities’.

Peer cites ‘hypocrisy in treatment of different communities’ as party investigates her tweet on acquittal of ‘coconut’ protester

Avoiding political debate with crude and insulting tags such as ‘coconut’ stifles diversity of thought

Sir Mark Rowley says force could have to shut half its ageing buildings in next decade and faces big deficit next year

Marieha Hussain, who depicted Sunak and Braverman as coconuts, says only people who do not understand the term find it offensive

On Friday afternoon, as District Judge, Vanessa Lloyd, read out a not-guilty verdict, cheers and whoops erupted from the public gallery at Westminster magistrates’ court. On the floor of the courtroom, a nine-month-pregnant woman named Marieha Hussain instantly broke down in tears. The ruling was the culmination of an almost…

Marieha Hussain’s placard featuring Sunak and Braverman was political satire: she should never have been hauled in front of a judge to prove it, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Exclusive: It has emerged that the academic, 41, was approached by the Metropolitan Police in April to lend his expertise to a Crown Prosecution Service review into whether Marieha Hussain should be charged for her ‘coconuts’ placard.