5 h. ago Tories deny they have thrown out plans to toughen up indefinite leave to remain

Plans to retrospectively remove the settled status are no longer Tory policy, a spokesman suggested on Wednesday.

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7 d. ago Kemi Badenoch 'caught red handed' trying to pass Tories off as ordinary voters in video

Kemi Badenoch has been mocked after sharing a clip showing her visiting a woman's home and talking about stamp duty - only for it to emerge that two people who took part are Tory councillors

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1 week ago Tories put pressure on Starmer following release of China spy case statements

Kemi Badenoch questioned why the final witness statement submitted in the case set out Sir Keir Starmer’s approach to relations with Beijing.

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2 w. ago Kemi Badenoch's masterstroke? ANDREW PIERCE on how the Tories could make a BIG comeback

Kemi Badenoch's barnstorming speech at party conference may have just turned the tide for the Conservative Party.

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3 w. ago 3 major areas Kemi Badenoch says she'll fix which Tories broke in first place

Kemi Badenoch used her Tory conference speech to claim the Conservatives are the ones who can fix the key issues facing Britain. She'll be furious to find out who's really to blame

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3 w. ago With her stamp duty pledge, Kemi Badenoch has rediscovered the Tories’ political mojo

Editorial: In the Manchester conference hall, the Conservative leader showed herself at her combative best – but one good speech with a headline-grabbing policy won’t be enough on its own to close the gap with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

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3 w. ago Badenoch silences the Tory plotters as her 'bold' plan to ABOLISH stamp duty is hailed by Kirstie Allsopp and economists after barnstorming conference speech

Mrs Badenoch delivered a barnstorming rallying cry to Tories that culminated in a fresh pledge to ditch the hated purchase tax on family homes to revive the dream of ownership.

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3 w. ago Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap Stamp Duty as Tories desperately battle for attention

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch used her party conference speech to brazenly claim that the Tories were the only ones to undo the damage they inflicted in power

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3 w. ago 'Never wrestle with a pig': Kemi Badenoch launches farmyard attack on Nigel Farage as she warns Tories must fight clever against Reform

The Conservative leader said her party had to offer a better alternative to Reform and Labour rather than simply attacking them on their turf.

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3 w. ago KEVIN MAGUIRE: If Kemi Badenoch is the answer the Tories are asking the wrong question

Kemi Badenoch's first Conservative Party conference speech shows she "has the authority of a stressed supply teacher and credibility of a shady used car dealer", writes Kevin Maguire

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3 w. ago Kemi Badenoch electrifies Tories with vow to ABOLISH stamp duty with cash raised by slashing benefits in  barnstorming first conference speech

Closing the Conservative conference in Manchester, Kemi Badenoch dropped the bombshell as she gave an impassioned response to fears the party is finished.

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3 w. ago Kemi Badenoch vows to ABOLISH stamp duty with cash raised by slashing benefits and spending

Kemi Badenoch is closing the conference in Manchester with a speech arguing that the country still needs the Conservatives .

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3 w. ago Tories would abolish stamp duty, Badenoch tells party conference – UK politics live

Party leader says measure is a ‘bad tax’ and scrapping it would free up the housing market and improve social mobilityVoting in the Labour deputy leadership election opens today. Lucy Powell, the former Commons leader, is seen as the favourite and, as Jessica Elgot reports, Powell told supporters yesterday that, if she is elected, she will use the post to argue for changes in the way the government is operating. “We can’t sugarcoat the fact that things aren’t going well,” she said.Powell is no longer a government minister and, if she is elected deputy leader, she will do the job from the backbenches. In an interview on Newsnight last night, Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary standing against Powell, said a Powell victory would be “destabilising” for the party. She said:[Electing Powell] risks destabilising the party we best achieve what we need to do together when we have those fierce conversations, including disagreements, behind closed doors.Members need to understand tha...

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3 w. ago Tories are only party that can meet ‘test of our generation’, says Badenoch

The Tory leader is delivering her closing address to the party conference.

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3 w. ago Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidatesBritish politics is starting to look post-Conservative. That isn’t a forecast of extinction for Kemi Badenoch’s party, just an observation of decline. Their agenda-setting days are behind them. Their loyal voters are old and they are not recruiting new ones.There is vigour on the right of the political spectrum, but the most energised people prefer burning things to conserving them. In parliament, Badenoch is still leader of the official opposition but in swaths of the country, the role of chief antagonist to the government has been usurped by Nigel Farage. Every speech at the Tory conference in Manchester has been a strangulated plea for relevance. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago A British Ice and more stop and search: Badenoch’s Tories set out new policies

Shadow ministers have announced far-reaching and often radical proposals – here is a roundup of some of themKemi Badenoch warned her shadow cabinet in January not to expect any detailed policies until 2027. “We’re not creating policies for 2028 in 2025,” a Tory spokesperson said at the time.This week that changed. At the Conservative party’s annual conference in Manchester, shadow ministers have lined up to announce detailed, far-reaching and often radical new policies. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'Cringe' Kemi Badenoch does 'karaoke' in pub of young Tories as she fights 'ghost town' claims

EXCLUSIVE: Deluded Kemi Badenoch is comparing herself to Tory battleaxe Margaret Thatcher as she fights claims the Conservative party conference has been a “ghost town”.

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3 w. ago Attacks on migrants will not return the Tories to power, Lord Heseltine warns Badenoch

Lord Heseltine warning comes as Robert Jenrick is caught up in a racism row

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3 w. ago Reform gloats over 20 Tory councillors defecting in humiliation for Kemi Badenoch on day three of conference

Touring broadcast studios at Conservative conference in Manchester, Kemi Badenoch played down a poll suggesting nearly two-thirds of members would support a pact.

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3 w. ago Tories having ‘good conference’, Badenoch says as more councillors join Reform

The Conservative leader said members were ‘thrilled’ with the policies put forward in Manchester.

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