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Simon Clarke

May 2024

  • Penny Mordaunt

    Tory donors pour cash into seats held by big names at risk of losing

    Exclusive: Over £2.5m for MPs such as Fox and Mordaunt in what will be the highest-spending UK election

April 2024

  • A campaign sign by Cancer Research UK outside parliament on 16 April.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    MPs vote to give smoking ban bill second reading – as it happened

    Rishi Sunak’s authority suffers blow as several Conservatives vote against bill, which clears first Commons hurdle with 383 votes to 67

January 2024

  • Sunak and Starmer at PMQs 24 January

    ‘If we win, we have to be ready’: Labour prepares for first 100 days as Tories slide into chaos

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    You don’t need to be a ship-jumping polls guru to work out Rish!’s numbers are dire

    John Crace
  • Clarke at the launch of Liz Truss's campaign to become PM, 14 July 2022.

    The Guardian view on the Tory right and Trump: a moral abyss and an electoral dead end

  • Rishi Sunak, right, and Lee Anderson at an event in Anderson’s Ashfield constituency on 4 January.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rishi Sunak open to reappointing Lee Anderson as Tory deputy chair despite Rwanda bill rebellion – as it happened

  • Simon Clarke advised to lie down by Tory MP after calling for Sunak to quit

  • Rishi Sunak must quit before he leads Tories to extinction, says ex-minister

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith resign over Rwanda bill – as it happened

November 2023

  • Rishi Sunak in Worksop on Friday 17 November.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak rejects Braverman’s claim he does not have proper plan for making Rwanda deportations happen – as it happened

    Prime minister says he ‘will do whatever it takes’ as senior Tory criticises former home secretary’s hardline proposals

September 2023

  • Rishi Sunak during his Downing Street press conference.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rishi Sunak delays some green targets and scraps others as he reveals net zero policy shift – as it happened

    PM says people to be given more time to switch gas boilers to heat pumps, and ban on sale of new petrol and diesel cars delayed

June 2023

  • Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nadine Dorries outside No 10 in July last year

    Boris Johnson allies threaten to target Tories who back Partygate report for deselection

    Supporters of ex-PM voice fury at ‘vindictive’ privileges committee finding that he deliberately misled parliament

February 2023

  • Liz Truss with Simon Clarke, one of her closest allies

    Truss allies’ calls for sweeping tax cuts fuel further Tory infighting

    Some MPs accuse former prime minister of damaging party with her comeback weeks before budget

November 2022

  • Train crosses the river Weaver viaduct at Frodsham, Cheshire.

    Former Tory chair joins rebellion over Sunak’s onshore windfarm ban

    Jake Berry is latest senior MP to urge prime minister to amend de facto block on new projects in England

October 2022

  • Suella Braverman

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rishi Sunak reshuffle: Braverman named home secretary, Gove returns as levelling up secretary, Mordaunt not promoted – as it happened

    Braverman reappointed to post after resigning days ago; James Cleverly retained as foreign secretary; Oliver Dowden becomes Cabinet Office minister
  • Rishi Sunak is welcomed by fellow MP's on the steps of Conservative Party HQ

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rishi Sunak to meet King Charles on Tuesday morning before taking over as PM and says UK faces ‘profound economic challenge’ – as it happened

    Rishi Sunak to meet monarch after Liz Truss chairs her final cabinet meeting at 9am

    • Rees-Mogg, Coffey, and Hunt would lose seats in election, poll suggests

    • Levelling up secretary’s ‘planning reset’ could reopen Tory splits over housebuilding

    • ‘Arghhhhhhhhh’: the 10 angriest Tories at Conservative conference

September 2022

  • British Prime Minister Liz Truss holds her first cabinet meeting inside 10 Downing Street

    Liz Truss cabinet: who are the key players in PM’s top team?

    The prime minister has appointed ministers for the great offices of state. Here are some of the other members of her new government
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