The Tory leader wrote in a letter that 'this is no time for dither', arguing: 'History has been unforgiving to politicians who, faced with growing threats, chose procrastination over action.'

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Kemi Badenoch is under mounting pressure to face down the threat of Reform UK with senior party figures 'watching and waiting', ready to force through a leadership challenge in Spring 2026.

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West Lothian’s Executive has agreed the changes which will see an end to rates relief on empty properties after six months, and in some cases three months.

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The Conservative Party did not explain where a figure that its leader cited came from.

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Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch questioned Lib Dem commitments to the UK’s nuclear deterrent.

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Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky have engaged in a war of words since the US began talks with Russia on ending the war without Ukraine.

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The PM doubled down on his previous suggestion that it was ‘for Parliament to make laws and for the government to decide policy’

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Kemi Badenoch arguably has the worst job in politics. Inheriting a battered, bruised and virtually broke Tory Party in an atmosphere of rampant populism.

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Kemi Badenoch hit back at England's top judge last night as a row broke out over the right to criticise the judiciary.

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The Home Secretary said Labour would press ahead with its plan to close ‘loopholes’ in the system.

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Echoing Donald Trump may seem like a good idea now, but does anyone really think his presidency will end well?

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The Lady Chief Justice said she was ‘deeply troubled’ about last Wednesday’s Commons session.

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The backlash came after Baroness Carr, the Lady Chief Justice, revealed she had written to Sir Keir Starmer over his exchanges in the House of Commons last week.

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Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr said she was ‘deeply troubled to learn of the exchanges’ between Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch.

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After more than 100 days at the helm of a faltering Tory party and a string of high-profile gaffes, Kemi Badenoch's leadership is facing growing doubts. Do you think she has what it takes?

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The Reform UK leader said ‘we need a change of attitude in Britain’.

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Conservative leader warns ‘our country and all of Western civilisation will be lost’ unless her party gets its act together

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The Reform leader and Kemi Badenoch have struck the wrong alliances at the wrong time. Ukrainian sovereignty is a cause close to rightwing heartsTiming is everything in politics. So when the leader of the opposition realised she was due to be making a speech heaping praise on Donald Trump, just as the president plunged her own country into a national security crisis, you might think even she would have hesitated.But seemingly nothing can keep Kemi Badenoch from a culture war, not even the threat of an actual war. So, at a rightwing conference in London on Monday morning, she duly ripped into corporate diversity policies, climate activism, Keir Starmer taking the knee four and a half years ago, and various other imagined threats to western civilisation that are not forcing Britain to consider deploying troops against them, before concluding triumphantly that when people ask her what difference a change of leader makes, her answer is, “Take a look at President Trump.”Gaby Hinsliff is ...

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We know that the West has given the world amazing ideas and values, from democracy and free markets to our banking systems. Yet around us we see so much decline that we doubt ourselves.

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Editorial: the Conservative leader’s bold claim that, without her party, Western civilisation may fall, highlights her ongoing struggle for relevance

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