28 h. ago Tory feuding fears as frontbenchers moan about Robert Jenrick interfering in their policy areas

Insiders have admitted that the shadow justice secretary's increasingly punchy interventions are causing tensions with colleagues.

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46 h. ago How Robert Jenrick skewered Kemi Badenoch’s Tory leadership reboot

Party insiders want to lean into the Tory leader’s forthright personality, and ‘let Kemi be Kemi’ as they try to tackle the rise of Nigel Farage and Reform. Kate Devlin and David Maddox report

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2 d. ago Kemi Badenoch admits she is still learning how to lead the Tories: ‘It takes a while’

The Tory leader likens herself to Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron as she said it ‘takes quite a while’ to get to grips with being leader of the opposition

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3 d. ago Kemi Badenoch says ECHR is letting Channel migrants 'mug' Britain and is blocking action on grooming gangs as Tory leader says UK will 'likely' have to quit treaty

In a major speech, the Tory leader bemoaned the effect of the treaty in a number of areas - including tackling illegal migration, deporting sex offenders, and protecting military veterans.

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3 d. ago Senior Tory says Britain 'needs to leave' the ECHR as Kemi Badenoch launches probe into how to exit Strasbourg court

Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said the Conservatives were 'increasingly of the view' that the UK needs to remove itself from the oversight of Strasbourg judges.

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3 d. ago Human rights laws need 'tightening,' says Cabinet minister amid Tory move to quit ECHR to cut immigration

Environment Secretary Steve Reed’s comments came as the head of the Council of Europe, whose role includes promoting human rights, argued the ECHR needed to be ‘adapted’ for the modern world

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3 d. ago Kemi's human rights exodus: Badenoch to say she's ready to quit the ECHR in order to take back control of Britain's borders

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch will say today that she is 'increasingly of the view we need to leave' the Strasbourg Court to prevent activist judges frustrating attempts to deal with the migrant crisis.

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3 d. ago In charts: can Kemi Badenoch stop Tory voters fleeing to Reform UK?

Conservative leader will harden her immigration stance, but her party is no longer trusted by voters on the right

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3 d. ago The Guardian view on the Conservatives and international law: a party trapped inside its own destructive obsessions | Editorial

Kemi Badenoch’s European human rights withdrawal plan would weaken Britain, delight authoritarians and achieve none of the goals the Tories imagineKemi Badenoch’s announcement of a Conservative party inquiry into a British withdrawal from the European convention on human rights (ECHR) should fool no one. The working party under the shadow attorney general, David Wolfson, announced on Thursday, will not look dispassionately at whether the UK should withdraw. It will merely try to say why and how. The policy of withdrawal itself is almost, to coin a phrase, oven-ready.This back-to-front policymaking process exemplifies the party’s rudderless drift under Mrs Badenoch. Tory policy is not now in the hands of the leader or the shadow cabinet. It is in the hands of Reform UK and the opinion polls. Mrs Badenoch is a follower of events. Hers is the approach of someone still trapped in a party bubble which is consumed by the belief that withdrawal is the key to regaining the Conservative...

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3 d. ago Liz Truss lashes out as Tories apologise for her disastrous mini

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride will vow the Tories will ‘never again’ make offers they cannot afford as he warned his party ‘needs to shine the light of truth on what Reform is all about’

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4 d. ago Tories will ‘never again’ put economy at risk like Liz Truss did, Mel Stride says

Shadow chancellor accepts Truss’s mini-budget badly damaged party in clearest repudiation yet of ex-PMUK politics live – latest updatesThe Conservatives will “never again” put the economy at risk with unfunded tax cuts like those in Liz Truss’s mini-budget, the shadow chancellor has said, in the party’s clearest repudiation yet of the former prime minister.In a speech on the economy, Mel Stride went beyond any comments made by the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, to accept that Truss’s September 2022 fiscal plans, which involved about £45bn in unfunded tax cuts and quickly unravelled, badly dented the party’s reputation. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Liz Truss lashes out as Tories set to apologise for her disastrous mini

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride will vow the Tories will ‘never again’ make offers they cannot afford

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4 d. ago Tories will ‘never again’ put economy at risk like Liz Truss did, Mel Stride to say

Shadow chancellor to accept Truss’s mini-budget badly damaged party in clearest repudiation yet of ex-PMThe Conservatives will “never again” risk the economy with unfunded tax cuts like those in Liz Truss’s mini-budget, the shadow chancellor is to say in the party’s clearest repudiation yet of the former prime minister.Making a speech on the economy, Mel Stride is expected to go beyond any comments made by the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, thus far to accept that Truss’s September 2022 fiscal plans, which involved about £45bn in unfunded tax cuts and quickly unravelled, badly dented the reputation of the party. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Kemi Badenoch faces Net Zero revolt as Tory big beast James Cleverly warns her to ignore climate change 'luddites'

Sir James will use a major speech tonight to urge her to position the Conservatives to work to 'set the pace' internationally on green technology so the UK can challenge China .

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5 d. ago The spirit of Liz Truss, ridiculous but relentless, stalks British politics | Rafael Behr

Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch have much more in common with the failed Tory leader than either cares to admitWe need to talk about Liz Truss, although there are reasons not to bother. The prime minister who failed faster than any previous holder of the office has much to say about her dismal record, but nothing insightful. She cuts a pitiful spectacle padding out the schedule at rightwing conferences, chasing attention and relevance with an addict’s fervour.Last week, Truss was at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest, sharing the big lesson she learned in government. It was that British institutions have been captured by a leftist doctrine and that they “hate western civilisation”. She couldn’t possibly counter this threat from No 10 because supposedly the real power was wielded by a well-financed “globalist network”, operating through such engines of anti-democratic subterfuge as the International Monetary Fund and the World Health Organization.Rafael Be...

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5 d. ago The spirit of Liz Truss, ridiculous but relentless, still stalks British politics | Rafael Behr

Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch have much more in common with the failed Tory leader than either cares to admitWe need to talk about Liz Truss, although there are reasons not to bother. The prime minister who failed faster than any previous holder of the office has much to say about her dismal record, but nothing insightful. She cuts a pitiful spectacle padding out the schedule at rightwing conferences, chasing attention and relevance with an addict’s fervour.Last week, Truss was at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest, sharing the big lesson she learned in government. It was that British institutions have been captured by a leftist doctrine and that they “hate western civilisation”. She couldn’t possibly counter this threat from No 10 because supposedly the real power was wielded by a well-financed “globalist network”, operating through such engines of anti-democratic subterfuge as the International Monetary Fund and the World Health Organization.Rafael Be...

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1 week ago Attorney General ‘regrets’ comparing calls to leave ECHR with 1930s Germany

Lord Hermer faced criticism from Tory leader Kemi Badenoch for a speech he made on Thursday.

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2 w. ago Kemi Badenoch 'has questions to answer over car hire security concerns’, says Labour

Tory leader has denied there were security concerns about a private car hire arrangement when she was a senior minister

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2 w. ago Boris Johnson's allies 'urging him to make bombshell return' as Tory leader with party rebels 'considering options' for ousting Kemi Badenoch

Details of a plot to reinstall the ex-premier to the political frontline have emerged as pressure piles on current party leader Kemi Badenoch.

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2 w. ago Kemi Badenoch facing ‘inevitable’ leadership challenge as Tories battle dire poll ratings

It comes after The Independent revealed that Tory MPs are plotting to remove Mrs Badenoch

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