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Conservative leadership

15 July 2024

  • Rishi Sunak

    Live
    Rishi Sunak should stay as Tory leader until November, says senior Tory – UK politics live

    Shadow foreign secretary says Conservatives should hold the leadership election after the party conference

14 July 2024

  • Ben Houchen in dark suit stands in front of crowd holding vote Conservative placards

    Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen warns against protracted Tory leadership race

    Houchen says party must avoid seeming self-indulgent as other Conservatives attack Liz Truss over new intervention

12 July 2024

  • Katy Balls

    A fight for the soul of the Tory party is inevitable. Rishi Sunak staying on may make it worse

    Katy Balls
    Without a timetable for the leadership race, the current uneasy truce might hold for a while, says Katy Balls, the Spectator’s political editor

10 July 2024

  • Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks from a podium

    Today in Focus
    The Conservative party: rows, resignations … and a tilt right? - podcast

    After a brutal defeat, the starting gun has been fired on the Tory leadership battle – but which faction will triumph? Kiran Stacey and Peter Walker report
  • Rishi Sunak and Kemi Badenoch pictured in the Commons last year

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Badenoch confirms she did criticise Sunak over election at shadow cabinet – as it happened

    Tory leadership contender says views of ‘activists, members and friends who lost seats after giving everything to campaign’ matter
  • Bob Blackman

    New leader of backbench Tory MPs holds the party’s future in his hands

    Bob Blackman, picked as the 1922 Committee chair, will play a major role in shaping the contest to replace Rishi Sunak

9 July 2024

  • Suella Braverman gestures as she speaks behind a lectern on which ‘National Conservatism’ is written

    Suella Braverman’s ‘divisive politics’ make her unfit to be leader, says Tory mayor

    Opposition among senior Tories grows after ex-home secretary derides Progress Pride flag being flown over Home Office
  • An information booth for Project 2025

    What is Project 2025 and what is Trump’s involvement?

    Former US president has tried to distance himself from conservative guide for a second term. Here’s what it is about and his links to it
  • Keir Starmer

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer praises Abbott and hails diverse Commons in first speech to parliament as PM – as it happened

    Parliament the most diverse by race and gender the country has ever seen, says Starmer, with the largest cohort of LGBT+ MPs in the world

8 July 2024

  • Rachel Reeves in front of a red backdrop with the Treasury logo

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rachel Reeves says new government has inherited ‘worst set of circumstances since second world war’ – as it happened

    New chancellor says she will make statement to MPs before summer recess about financial situation as she says UK economy has been ‘held back’

7 July 2024

  • Suella Braverman

    Suella Braverman losing support as potential party leader, Tories say

    Robert Jenrick, Priti Patel and Kemi Badenoch, who have all ruled out deal with Reform, seen as more viable candidates
  • Defence secretary John Healey meeting Ukrainian defence minister Rustem Umerov during a visit to Odesa.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Defence secretary announces new military aid package for Ukraine – as it happened

    John Healey announces fresh package as he visits southern port city of Odesa
  • Victoria Atkins and Robert Jenrick sitting side-by-side in the BBC studio

    Robert Jenrick says Tories lost voters’ trust and fails to rule out leadership bid

    Former immigration minister says party failed to deliver, as Suella Braverman and Victoria Atkins also speak out

6 July 2024

  • General Election 2024<br>File photo dated 06/02/24 of former prime minister Liz Truss during the launch of the Popular Conservatism movement at the Emmanuel Centre in central London Issue date: Friday July 5, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS ElectionPrimeMinisters. Photo credit should read: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

    No Boris Johnson, no deals with Nigel Farage: it’s time for the Tories to get serious

    Paul Goodman
  • Priti Patel, Tom Tugendhat and Kemi Badenoch

    Resist ‘idiotic’ move to the right in leadership race, top Tories urge

  • David Cameron leaving 10 Downing Street, London, holding a file

    David Cameron and senior Tories push back against swift leadership contest

  • Rishi Sunak illustration ink bleeding

    ‘A difficult hand played poorly’: how No 10 slipped from Sunak’s grasp

5 July 2024

  • Kemi Badenoch

    Who could be next Tory leader? Eight possible candidates – from centrist to rightwing

    The likely main contenders to succeed Rishi Sunak, broadly ordered by their place on the political spectrum
  • Kemi Badenoch following her win at the North West Essex Election count.

    Tory leadership contenders prepare for quick contest amid Reform fears

    Party figures worry a drawn-out race would benefit Nigel Farage, though others want a longer process
  • Rishi Sunak, with his wife, Akshata Murty, in the background.

    Rishi Sunak resigns as Tory leader as well as PM after election defeat

    Sunak apologises to country and fires starting pistol on leadership race before going to Buckingham Palace for final audience with king
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