Conservative Party

A raft of big-name Brexiteers lost their seats as Labour won a landslide victory

Fourteen years of Conservative disasters come to an end as Keir Starmer prepares to enter No.10

Stephen Twigg’s campaign manager remembers how an unwinnable Tory seat held by their leader-in-waiting turned red on a night of drama in May 1997

What time is the exit poll? When will the key seats declare? How long will you have to stay up to see Sunak concede?

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Jonathan Gullis, Reform, the Daily Telegraph and more

The paper hates Keir Starmer, but couldn’t bear not to back a winner

They might have ruined the country, crashed the economy, partied through Covid and brought us Brexit … but on the upside, the Tories have provided us with great front-page material. We’ll miss that*

A lacklustre campaign has been marked by an unwillingness to get real about Britain’s problems

There must be something better than the juvenile name-calling that has come to characterise our way of government

The Tories under 100 seats, Truss and Corbyn to lose, up to 55 Lib Dem gains and more

I hate tactical voting, but with the system we've got we have to use it to get Sunak out of Downing Street

A former editor says the paper’s unquestioning support allowed the Conservatives to lose perspective

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at GB News, Rishi Sunak, Isabel Oakeshott, the Daily Telegraph and more

When the rest of the world looks at Britain they see a country of systemic failures, dysfunction and absurdity. But it need not be like this

Brexit is clearly the failure it was always going to be, but repairing the damage and avoiding the mistakes of the past is a long-term task

Why have we failed to invest anywhere near as much as our rivals – and what can we do to put things right?

Betgate could join Partygate as a defining scandal of the Tories’ 14 years in power – even if Tory papers were reluctant to touch the story

Tracked down in Somerset, even Jacob Rees-Mogg admits it would be ‘ridiculous to pretend’ that he is not facing a Portillo moment on July 4

They are adrift in the polls, financially hard-up and morally bankrupt.. and now the Conservatives may not even finish second

What the Tories mean by a ‘supermajority’ is that they are set to lose really, really badly on July 4. Good

John Redwood: the man who got everything wrong

The Conservatives know their best hope of avoiding a wipeout is to stir up apathy

Their period in power is ending not with a bang, but a flutter

The Conservatives will reshape after election defeat – and Miriam Cates, at the vanguard of Britain’s growing religious right, could emerge as a leading figure

Labour’s Jovan Owusu-Nepaul is impressive – but is he really going to defeat Farage?

The bad news is that it’s beginning to work

The right wing press is predicting a Tory wipe-out – anything less, and they’ll say Starmer has failed

They’ve been losing big donors – has the party election machine run out of money?

What are these pamphlets of political promises actually for – and why do parties with no hope of winning bother writing them?