Conservative Party

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?

In order to woo Leave voters, Labour has adopted a policy of accepting Brexit, which is exactly what Nigel Farage wants

It would be the end of British conservatism as we know it

He can’t be enjoying this, can he?

Just a quarter of people think the UK should be outside the EU - but no party leader is talking about it

The Lib Dem leader has been running a crack campaign – with the Euros approaching, might he recreate a football fan’s famous stunt?

The papers aren’t bystanders any more – they’re political participants

On July 4, I will be celebrating the defenestration of the Tory party, but not without regrets over what has been lost

Dogwhistling louder than ever and dominating UK political TikTok, Nigel Farage is setting himself up to win the 2029 election

Are Sunak’s advisers so politically inept that they could not see the enormity of the own goal they were about to score?