Conservative Party

For our final letters pages of 2023, a selection of our favourite missives of the year. Thank you to all who wrote in

We only met once and since then he’s been trying to ruin my life. Sort of

Some Tory MPs still dream of Boris Johnson returning as PM. After his Covid inquiry appearance, are they mad?

The government’s migration plans are a cruel mess that will harm British business – and they know it

The whole Rwanda debacle is just a deceit to fool some voters and try to please the Tory backbenchers.

Having finished third on I’m a Celebrity, Nasty Nigel will no doubt be back on our screens with further cynical attempts to detoxify his public image

Their absurd arguments are cover for their own impending irrelevance

Faced with electoral oblivion, their reckless actions risk inflicting damage on the country that will take many years to repair

Our legal system is one of the few remaining checks holding government to account - no wonder pundits and politicians attack it

If Sunak can’t be a credible leader for the Tories, then they will find someone who can

How the ‘fearless’ Tory press meekly ducked criticism of Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak over Covid

Which bittersweet symphonies best sum up Britain’s political parties?

Our modern democracy demands – and deserves – more modern ways of functioning

Europe may have led the Tories to destroy themselves, but Thatcher had already set in motion the destruction of the country

A national insurance cut for January indicates we could only be six months from a poll

The prime minister clearly hoped Cameron’s heft would prevent him becoming a source of division

The Tory MP is no swaggering populist, but a leading light of a new cohort of Tories for whom nationalism and nationhood are the intellectual core of public life

The Conservatives are obsessed with ‘tedious nonsense’ in ‘the worst political period in my lifetime’, says the party grandee

The Home Office’s failure to process asylum applications speedily is incompetent and inhumane

Foreign Direct Investment is a key economic indicator – and it indicates that Britain is in big trouble

The former PM owes us all one for the referendum; at least there will be one sensible voice around the cabinet table arguing for closer ties

His sudden and unexpected reappearance in Downing Street can mean only one thing: David Cameron IS Doctor Who

David Cameron is Rishi Sunak’s latest trick to persuade voters that he is competent. Like his others, it is doomed to fail

The capital’s representatives in government have been too male, too pale and too stale

Even by recent standards, it’s been quite a week for the Conservatives. Sunak actually grows a pair, Braverman is out (for now), and an old face is back in the cabinet

The thinktank behind Liz Truss’s mini-budget now claims leaving the EU hasn’t harmed UK trade

Suella Braverman’s cruel attack on unhoused people points to a larger problem and must not be forgotten amid the reshuffle

New research shows people aged 30 are earning 8% less than their Gen X counterparts

A new crop of hardline Christian fundamentalists think they should decide what’s taught in British classrooms. They’re just as sinister as their US counterparts