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The former prime minister marched his backers to the top of the hill - and left them to make their own way back down

The former health secretary has struggled to make big bucks outside of politics

The rejected Mail man is campaigning hard for a place on Parliament's red benches

Mandrake challenges Sir James Duddridge to now name the 100 fellow Tory MPs he claimed backed the former prime minister's return

Liz Truss leaves behind a legacy of thousands of unsold mugs all emblazoned with the words: “In Liz we Truss”

The new prime minister is a Brexit true believer who believes in making the rich richer

The ex-PM is like a tired movie trope: the battered, near-dead villain who rises one last time to wreak more havoc. Now it’s time to lower the curtain on this horror show

The national rejoin march saw large crowds of people take to the streets of the capital

The ghouls are circling for Halloween – but nobody wants this Tory leadership horror show

A generation of kids will grow up associating Conservatism with cold, hunger and political disaster. He’ll only make it worse

If the UK is forced to endure another Tory government, is there anyone out there who might be willing to face facts on Brexit?

A trade collapse with the EU shows that the damage will linger on far longer than Liz Truss did

The prime minister has resigned after a farcical and disastrous 44 days

The prime minister’s reckless plans continue to radicalise even the least militant organisations

Two more years of the Tories’ destructive misgovernment would be disastrous for the UK’s economy and credibility

We’re coming to the end of courgette season in the UK. We’d better have the last of the crop, then, and enjoy them before winter takes hold

The messages inside secondhand books are captivating mysteries all of their own

If you think Rothko's pieces are merely calm meditative paintings, look again. Carefully.

She Said stands out and a French drama also shines at the London Film Festival

Starmer’s Labour would be radical in power - and rejoining should not be ruled out if it won a second term

Jeremy Hunt has taken the wheel of Liz Truss’s clown car

Two things are central to the humiliation of Liz Truss: we don’t understand her, and she doesn’t understand us

Only the reversal of Brexit can start to fix the state three prime ministers have left the country in

Juliet Stevenson is on spellbinding form in the title role of this long-awaited West End transfer

It’s a pleasure to see David Tennant back on stage, even if it has turned out Nazi again

The Conservative Party has driven Britain to the brink of a democratic crisis. Only a national vote can end it

The collapse of Liz Truss’s authority is the logical conclusion of the anti-EU cult that has wrecked Britain’s economy over the last six years

The Tories could unite to topple Truss. However, they are so divided at the moment that it may not be possible

One insider tells MANDRAKE that there is more to her departure than meets the eye

Chope was one of the few Tory MPs willing to go on air to defend Truss's mini-budget

Vine accused the prime minister of being unable to show even a shred of empathy