2 h. ago Badenoch refuses to say whether she would resign over poor results in May

Her comments came during a Party conference overshadowed by questions about her leadership and the challenge from Nigel Farage’s party.

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6 h. ago Tory party misspells 'Britain' on promotional chocolate bar at Conservative Party Conference

A typo was spotted on the free promotional snack

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6 h. ago 'Let's take our country back': Robert Jenrick says Brits are 'fighting' decline saying Tories must get behind 'collapse of the old order'

In his keynote speech to party conference, shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick said Brits were sick of decline and 'fighting'.

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6 h. ago Kemi Badenoch sings ‘Sweet Caroline’ in pub singalong at Tory party conference

Kemi Badenoch can be seen singing along to Sweet Caroline with Conservative supporters during the party’s annual conference in Manchester.

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7 h. ago Tories promise negative net migration and 10,000 more police if elected

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said that the days of mass, low-skill migration have to end.

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7 h. ago Reform UK announces mass Tory defections as Kemi Badenoch says: 'We're shedding baggage'

Kemi Badenoch tries to brush off the string of defections, which were revealed while she conducted a series of broadcaster interviews on Tuesday

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8 h. ago AstraZeneca heaps pressure on Keir Starmer with threat to slash investment in the UK unless NHS accepts higher drugs prices

Shaun Grady told an event at the Conservative Party Conference that Britain's pricing regime, which seeks to limit the financial impact on the health service, was 'appalling'.

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8 h. ago Watch: Kemi Badenoch sings Sweet Caroline in cringe video as Tory leader dismisses 'flat' Tory conference criticism

The Tory leader was captured on video singing in a bar with young conservatives at the Tory party conference

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8 h. ago ‘Why can’t you spell?’: James Cleverly confronted over Tories misspelling ‘Britain’

This is the moment Sir James Cleverly is confronted over his party’s misspelling of the word ‘Britain’.

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9 h. ago I preached levelling up as the key to Tory success – but Boris Johnson didn’t do it. Now look at us | Justine Greening

Social mobility and equality of opportunity is crucial to Britain’s success. The party that embraces those things will prosperJustine Greening is a former Conservative ministerAs the existentially challenged Conservative party meets in Manchester for its annual party conference, it has much to ponder on where it goes next. It’s not even clear if there is a road forward at all. These are tough times for a party that now has little, if anything, new or unique to say to voters.It could have been so different if it had made tangible progress on an agenda that matters to people across the country: Levelling up. Yet Boris Johnson’s government hadn’t got the first clue on how to turn his zeitgeisty rhetoric on levelling up into policy reality. For the two years after the 2019 election, it debated what the term even meant.Justine Greening is a former Conservative minister and was MP for Putney from 2005 to 2019 Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Reform UK announces mass defections from Tories during Conservative Party Conference

Kemi Badenoch tries to brush off the string of defections, which were revealed while she conducted a series of broadcaster interviews on Tuesday

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10 h. ago Tories mocked over misspelling ‘Britain’ on chocolate bar at party conference

A Tory source said the spelling mistake was a ‘printing error’

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10 h. ago Kemi Badenoch sings Sweet Caroline in bar as she claims Tory conference not a washout

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch was filmed dancing with young Tory activists at a bar at the party conference in Manchester, as she hit back at claims the showcase event is a washout

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18 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: The sight of Maggie's old outfits at Tory conference is creepy. It's time for the party to end its obsession with her if it is to have any chance of a revival

Before the Conservatives win any election they will need to chime with 21st-century Britain and its voters. To use a German word, they will need to find the zeitgeist, writes Quentin Letts.

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20 h. ago Video shows empty seats during key Conservative party conference speech

There were several empty seats at the Conservative Party's conference on Monday, 6 October, as Sir Mel Stride laid out the opposition's economic plans if they win the next election.

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25 h. ago Tories' humiliating error as Kemi Badenoch can't even spell Britain properly

The Tory Party Conference isn't exactly going to plan so far...bars of chocolate handed out in goodie bags have got an unfortunate typo on them - they can't even spell Britain right

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26 h. ago Term ‘disabled’ being used too widely, shadow work and pensions secretary says – UK politics live

Helen Whateley says ‘millions are sitting on the sofa at home’Mel Stride, the shadow chancellor, was doing an interview round for the Conservatives this morning, and Miatta Fahnbulleh, the faith and communities minister, was on the air on behalf of the government. They were both asked about the latest development in the flag phenomenon – the former footballer turned property developer Gary Neville saying that he took down a union flag flying at one of his building sites because he felt it was being used in a “negative fashion”.Asked if Neville (a Labour supporter) had a point, Fahnbulleh told ITV’s Good Morning Britain:I think he’s really right, that there are people who are trying to divide us at the moment I spent a lot of time going around our communities, talking to people. People are ground down. We’ve had a decade-and-a-half in which living standards haven’t budged and people have seen their communities held down. And you will get people trying to stoke division, trying to bla...

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27 h. ago Conservatives should stop defending triple lock ‘Ponzi system’, says senior Tory

Tom Tugendhat compared the UK economy to a ‘Ponzi system’ during a fringe event at the party conference in Manchester on Monday.

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28 h. ago Tory plan to scrap green energy measures called ‘contradictory nonsense’ by environment groups – UK politics live

Shadow energy secretary’s plans dismissed as ‘dead wrong’ by environment groupsMel Stride, the shadow chancellor, was doing an interview round for the Conservatives this morning, and Miatta Fahnbulleh, the faith and communities minister, was on the air on behalf of the government. They were both asked about the latest development in the flag phenomenon – the former footballer turned property developer Gary Neville saying that he took down a union flag flying at one of his building sites because he felt it was being used in a “negative fashion”.Asked if Neville (a Labour supporter) had a point, Fahnbulleh told ITV’s Good Morning Britain:I think he’s really right, that there are people who are trying to divide us at the moment I spent a lot of time going around our communities, talking to people. People are ground down. We’ve had a decade-and-a-half in which living standards haven’t budged and people have seen their communities held down. And you will get people trying to stoke divisi...

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30 h. ago Labour has ruined lives of farming communities with tax policy, Tories claim

Shadow environment secretary Victoria Atkins pledged to scrap the ‘family farm tax’ at the Conservative party conference in Manchester.

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