The combative ‘anti-woke warrior’: why the Tories are starkly divided over Kemi Badenoch
Katy Balls
The party leadership candidate knows how to make enemies. But to win the prize she wants, she’ll need to make friends too, says the Spectator’s political editor, Katy Balls
Badenoch campaign team member used offensive names about a councillor
Insulting language in private message sent by Oliver Cooper to an activist colleague in 2017 emerged in a high court case
Brief letters
Inheritance tax for an inherited mess
Brief letters: Economic shortfall | Hopes for new chancellor | Kemi Badenoch | Pylon teaching aids | Olympic medals
July 2024
Kemi Badenoch asked to use taxpayers’ money to pay for holiday flight, sources claim
Kemi Badenoch accused of ‘bullying and traumatising’ staff
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Greens say Labour should focus more on building council homes and that new housing plan is flawed – as it happened
The politics sketch
Reeves and Hunt come to brink of fisticuffs over mysteriously absent £22bn
John Crace
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
UK politics: Winter fuel payments to be restricted as Reeves says there is £22bn spending shortfall – as it happened
Who are the Conservative leadership candidates?
Kemi Badenoch wants to drag the Tories further right. That is a huge mistake
Simon Jenkins
Kemi Badenoch enters Tory leadership race as Suella Braverman rules herself out
Patel accuses rivals of waging ‘personal vendettas’ as she launches Tory leadership bid
Kemi Badenoch accuses Conservative leadership rival of ‘dirty tricks’
The politics sketch
Finding Labour a bit dull? Fear not, the Tory fun factory is gearing up again
John Crace
Tories will pick new leader in November after agreeing extended timetable
Shadow health secretary rebuked for behaving ‘abominably’ in Commons
Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen warns against protracted Tory leadership race
Digested week
Relax, Starmergeddon hasn’t happened. The grownups are in charge
John Crace
A fight for the soul of the Tory party is inevitable. Rishi Sunak staying on may make it worse
Katy Balls
Today in Focus
The Conservative party: rows, resignations … and a tilt right? - podcast
