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Just look at what it did to Elon Musk – he bought Twitter, and it was all downhill from there

The Tory leader did nothing about rape gangs she was the minister responsible, and is only interested now that she thinks there might be votes in it

The official reasons Charlotte Owen and Ross Kempsell were handed peerages has been published - and things are still no clearer

He did nothing about it when he was a government minister, but now, Jenrick is promoting himself as a campaigner for justice. He’s nothing more than a race-baiting grifter

His car-crash Today interview reveals much about the man who would be Tory king

The former Conservative defence secretary has called on his party to adopt 'experienced' general election candidates now. Whoever can he mean?

The 12 months ahead are fraught with danger for both Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch

The former Conservative MP is still out of work nearly six months after losing his seat

The shadow Wales secretary has contradicted her leader and said the Tories might have compensated the Waspi women after all

The new peer is peddling misinformation about Bridget Phillipson’s plans for education

The Tory leader has given her rival even more free publicity - but she's right to have picked this fight

Britain has made up its mind on Europe. The PM must do the same, before it’s too late

Labour is a swirl of competing interest groups and right now “the Deliverers” are in charge. But will they be able to see off Musk, Reform and the populist right?

Just why were Charlotte Owen and Ross Kempsell put into the House of Lords by Boris Johnson? We may be about to find out

Forget polling and lifetime party loyalty – all that’s gone. In their place we have a broken system, Reform as the main opposition party, and a growing threat from disinformation

While Ed Davey faces an uncontested leadership election, a more interesting poll looms next year

Looking back on 12 months in Brexit, our only hope is that the government comes to its senses – because Trump is on his way

The 'Brain of Brexit' has compared a colleague's suspension from the Lords for racist language to a violent revolution which cost up to two million lives

Why does the leader of the Conservative Party have such a disturbing set of role models?

Telling small groups of people that they will be taken seriously if only they shout loudly enough is damaging for democracy

The sneaky, the snobbish and the snide. The spiteful, the shameless and the downright sinister. They are all shits – and all here in the New European’s annual rundown of 50 people the UK could definitely do without

Too centralised, too short term, too obsessed with Twitter, our political system is a dysfunctional mess. If we don’t fix it, we’ll all suffer

In making them a carbon copy of Reform, the new leader of the opposition shows she is neither thoughtful nor serious

Badenoch, for all her anti-woke diatribes, is the wrong kind of Tory rightist. She will lead them defeat, and quite possibly eclipse by Reform

The hard right has achieved political power across Europe. British politics now faces exactly the same risk

The new Conservative leader appears to recall growing up in a very different Nigeria to the one which existed

The new Tory leader has been handed a shaky mandate by a depleted party rooted in deep denial

The short-lived former PM has once again popped up in Budget week to offer her wise counsel

Stirring things up over this summer’s riots is bad, demanding that former colonies doff the cap is arguably even worse

£100,000 for breaching impartiality rules is nothing to the loss-making channel

The roots of Britain’s water crisis, like so many now facing the country, lay in Thatcherite deregulation