17 h. ago Kemi Badenoch says employers should be able to ban burqas in the workplace

The Tory leader also claimed she wouldn’t let people into her constituency surgeries if they wore face veils

Politics

19 h. ago Badenoch says organisations should be able to decide if staff can wear burkas

Kemi Badenoch also said people who come to her constituency surgeries must remove their face coverings.

Politics

23 h. ago Kemi Badenoch says company bosses should have right to ban burkas and face coverings in workplace

The Conservative Party leader also blasted first-cousin marriages and sharia courts as an ‘insidious’ barrier to cultural integration

Economics

30 h. ago Kemi Badenoch says office managers should be able to ban women from wearing face coverings

Bosses should be able to ban employees from wearing burkas, Kemi Badenoch has said.

Society

34 h. ago KEMI BADENOCH: A simple way to deter migrants? Make them wait for ten years before they can claim any benefits

Britain today seems to work more favourably for those who jump the queue, who break the rules, who get into our country illegally but then denigrate our customs and our culture.

Events

42 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

Politics

56 h. ago DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Why the death of the Tory Party has been greatly exaggerated

The Tories are languishing in the polls behind Labour and Reform. No wonder some have read it the last rites. And yet, under Kemi Badenoch there are signs the party is flickering back to life.

Events

64 h. ago Kemi Badenoch refuses to kick Liz Truss out of Conservative Party

The Tory leader suggested such a move would be ‘neither here nor there’ for voters’ perception of the party.

Politics

66 h. ago Downing Street ‘welcomes’ ECHR debate as Badenoch launches exit probe

A Number 10 spokesman said it was ‘important’ there were discussions about how the convention operated.

Politics

66 h. 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

Politics

67 h. ago Badenoch insists Tories are still the main opposition to Labour

The Tories won just 6% of the vote in a Scottish Parliament by-election this week.

Politics

68 h. 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.

Events

68 h. 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.

Events

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.

Politics

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

Politics

3 d. ago Even Kemi Badenoch’s closest allies admit she needs to get better

When the best thing the most senior member of a party leader’s team can say about them is that ‘she will get better over time’, then the Tories know they have a problem, writes David Maddox

Politics

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...

Society

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’

Events

3 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...

Economics

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

Events