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Conservative conference

July 2024

  • Rishi Sunak waves as he stands next to his wife with people around

    Tory conference could be like a wake as business stays away

    Attendance in Birmingham predicted to be worst in living memory with big impact on party’s fundraising efforts
  • Illustration: Eleanor Bannister

    The heat or eat diaries
    I have a new job, but the thought of universal credit still gives me anxiety

    Sharron Spice
    Jeremy Hunt’s plans to toughen the rules for universal credit are nonsensical, says Sharron Spice, who is in her 30s and lives in London
  • Katy Hessel

    The great women's art bulletin
    Sarah Lucas’s joyful bodies express freedom – and are a riposte to Sunak’s binary Britain

    Katy Hessel
    The power of the British artist’s bronze, concrete and stuffed nylon bodies is to show our diverse society in all its liberating glory
  • Julia Fox. Photographer: Erik Madigan Heck; styling: Chloe Hartstein; set design: Andrea Huelse; hair: John Novotny at Opus Beauty; makeup: David Razzano at Opus Beauty; set design assistant: Henry Harper; green dress : Rachel Gilbert; necklace: Alexis Bittar

    Weekend
    Actor Julia Fox, John Crace at the Tory party conference, and The Greatest Show Never Made – podcast

    John Crace on Rishi Sunak veering between dull and delusional in his conference speech; actor Julia Fox unpacks abuse, fame, and dating Kanye; plus the bizarre story of how an advert for a reality show led to a British TV mystery
  • Rishi Sunak delivers his keynote speech at the Conservative party’s conference in Manchester this week.

    The unpopularity contest staged at the Conservative party conference

    Letters: Readers reflect on the Tories’ performance and decisions made during their party conference
  • Justine Greening

    Rishi Sunak’s risky rhetoric has alienated my party – and left the door open to Keir Starmer

    Justine Greening
    A significant number of Tory members and MPs do not want this version of conservatism, says former Conservative MP Justine Greening
  • Andy Beckett

    Dogmatic, desperate and out of ideas: Manchester was the Tories’ last hurrah

    Andy Beckett
    Harking back to past glories was high on the agenda. But the jostling to replace Sunak suggests some are eyeing the future, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
  • HS2 workers walking past a sign

    The Guardian view on HS2 cancellation: mind the north-south gap

  • Rishi Sunak said Nicola Sturgeon would go down in history books ‘for very different reasons’ to achieving Scottish independence.

    Rishi Sunak reported to Scottish police over joke about Nicola Sturgeon

  • Silhouetted elderly man in bedroom.

    The real cost of local authority budget cuts

  • Rishi Sunak addresses the 2023 Conservative party conference in Manchester.

    Brief letters
    Scientific search for a dot of contrition

  • Rishi Sunak denies HS2 has been reduced to ‘shuttle service’

  • Tory conference revealed a party that’s crumbling – and with Nigel Farage laying siege to its future

    Owen Jones
  • Today in Focus
    All change: do Rishi Sunak’s new policies add up?

  • Rishi Sunak was accused of the ‘biggest and most damaging U-turn in the history of UK infrastructure’.

    Sunak sparks Tory civil war with scrapping of HS2 Manchester leg

  • Zoe Williams

    Get real, Akshata Murty. You may have chosen Rishi, but none of us did

    Zoe Williams
  • Sunak clearly feels that the voters do not like him because they do not know him enough.

    Tories hoping ‘more Rishi’ is the answer to flagging poll ratings

  • Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy.

    Politics Weekly UK
    Rishi Sunak’s conference speech – Politics Weekly UK

  • Health charities welcome Sunak’s plan to curb smoking in England

  • Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Steve Bell on Rishi Sunak’s decision to scrap HS2 leg – cartoon

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