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It’s grim to think the four candidates are the best Conservative politics can offer. Why can’t others be considered, asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Theresa May and William Hague say Tory leadership contenders need to acknowledge the scale of the defeat in July

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Around 250,000 university staff and alumni will vote in the election next month after the current chancellor, Chris Patten, announced his retirement

Perhaps it was because I watched it during the first week of lockdown, but I have a particular attachment to this BBC documentary on House of Lords reform, first aired in February 2000. It is a Michael Cockerell production, so you know it will be good, but it is even better than that.

The vice-president nominee’s workwear is a central conversation on the election trail. It’s not the first time fashion has become political

Labour peer and former Conservative foreign secretary William Hague battle for role dominated by retired Tory politicians

A LABOUR MP has apologised for a series of unearthed tweets in which she insults Estonians, Pakistanis and admits to elbowing a homeless man in the…

In today’s newsletter: As they try to find Rishi Sunak’s successor, the Tories need to decide what they stand for

Editorial: Since 1900, only four Tory leaders have not gone on to become prime minister. Rishi Sunak’s successor is likely to become the fifth

Life in the political wilderness is grim, but you have the luxury of time. Use it to offer a constructive alternative to Labour, says former Conservative MP David Lidington