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Kemi Badenoch faces backlash as Tory rivals seize on maternity pay comments

Leadership contender’s team in damage control mode after she is criticised for saying burden on business is ‘excessive’

The Guardian - UK

Tory leadership race: James Cleverly can 'speak to all Londoners,' says ex-London minister Paul Scully

Lewisham-born Cleverly was a member of the Greater London Assembly

Evening Standard

Tories only have themselves to blame for terrible election defeat, warns Ben Houchen

Exclusive: Ben Houchen, Britain’s only senior Tory left in power, says his party can turn things around in five years but should have listened to Rishi Sunak to avoid calamity

The Independent UK

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Robert Jenrick squirms over support for Donald Trump in US election

The Tory leadership contender pointed out that his party has ‘strong and historic links’ to the Republican Party

The Independent UK

Conservative leadership candidates lay out immigration plans ahead of conference

Immigration has been one of the much-discussed issues.

Evening Standard

Tories must change quickly or ‘die’, Welsh leader warns after election wipeout

Andrew RT Davies will address the Conservative conference in Birmingham on Sunday.

Evening Standard

Tories facing ‘dire’ finances as businesses and donors switch to Farage and Starmer

Exclusive: Concerns are being raised about the financial health of the Conservative Party ahead of a crucial conference in Birmingham this week

The Independent UK

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Prominent Tory peer resigns from party over 'how far right' it has moved

A PROMINENT Tory peer has resigned from the party over how far it has moved to the right.

The National (Scotland)

UK political magazine The Spectator's new editor is Michael Gove

Michael Gove has been appointed as the editor of The Spectator which is one of the world’s oldest political magazines

The Independent UK

It’s Hard to Tell What Poilievre Makes of the World

Besides being anti China, the Conservatives have been largely silent on their foreign policy

The Walrus

John Major criticises Rwanda asylum plan as ‘un-Conservative and un-British’

Former prime minister says previous Tory government’s immigration policy would not have acted as a deterrent

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - It's the end of the dating app era for women like me, starting with Bumble

September, the month of New York Fashion Week and back to school for the kids, is also the month in which the singles of this city return to the dating apps after a summer of fun. Getting back on the apps in the first week of September ought, meteorologically, to…

Evening Standard

Disgraced Tory donor Frank Hester gave party another £5m days before election was called

Donation came after former PM condemned businessman’s reported remark that Diane Abbott made him ‘want to hate all Black women’

The Independent UK

Four ways to know whether to stay or go if your workplace is a sinking ship

Over the last few weeks, after a massive defeat at the UK general election, several senior staff in the Conservative Party have reportedly taken voluntary redundancy, with more staff cuts expected to follow. Perhaps not surprising, as morale is not likely to be high. But it raises an interesting and…

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The Independent UK

4 candidates remain in the race to lead the UK's Conservative Party

British lawmaker Mel Stride became the second candidate to be kicked out of the Conservative Party leadership contest

Evening Standard

OPINION - Zarah Sultana MP: Are Labour about to be the new party of austerity?

Politics is a matter of life and death.

The Guardian - UK

The Tory leadership race says it all about the trouble they are in. Jenrick, Badenoch, Stride: what a crew!

The party has faced crisis before, but this feels different. It’s a battle for not much, says writer and Tory historian Geoffrey Wheatcroft

The Guardian - UK

Tory Covid contracts worth £15bn had corruption ‘red flags’, study finds

Findings by Transparency International UK point to ‘more than coincidence or incompetence’, says chief executive

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Nadine Dorries pledges to expose 'Westminster group sex parties' in bizarre book ad

FOR everyone that didn’t read Nadine Dorries’s first book about the shadowy figures plotting to bring down democracy in the UK, there is another…

The Independent UK

‘On the verge of extinction’: Nadine Dorries ramps up war on Tory Party with new book Downfall

The former culture secretary promises to pick up where her explosive last book The Plot left off

The Guardian - UK

Tom Tugendhat says voters no longer take Conservative party seriously

Former security minister promises a ‘revolution’ if elected leader and apologises for ‘recent political trauma’

The Independent UK

Nigel Farage ditches Reform UK’s ‘contract with the people’ just 2 months after election

After criticism that Reform UK’s election contract with the people was ‘Liz Truss on steroids’, new Reform UK chairman has admitted that the party is working on a new set of policies as well as drawing up rules enabling the party’s leader to be sacked

Evening Standard

Former Tory MP at the centre of Westminster 'honeytrap' scandal reveals how it ruined his career and mental health

Former MP shares how he was contacted on Grindr by scammer and then blackmailed

The Guardian - UK

Tory rivals are playing nice so far but like a family Christmas old scores are bound to surface

The Conservatives would be better able to stand one another if the party could work out what it actually stands for

The Conversation

Tory leadership contenders would be wise to become the ‘heir to Keir’

The Conservative leadership contest is something of a sideshow to the meaningful politics of government. Whoever wins will inherit a depleted party reeling from arguably its worst ever election defeat. It comprises only 121 MPs, many now in marginal seats (77 are defending majorities where just a 5% swing would…

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