Conservative Party

Nothing sums up the chaotic idiocy of the Tory campaign more than their latest plan to reintroduce national service

The beleaguered British public deserve better than this morally impoverished Tory government

Is someone in the prime minister’s team deliberately trying to derail his campaign from within?

What the right wing papers think about Raynergate, the triple lock plus and private schools

New Tory policies are designed to stop their voters from backing Richard Tice. Instead they should be focused on potential switchers to Labour

Mandrake has been informed she has already attracted serious financial backing

Rishi Sunak’s admission that no failed asylum seekers will be flown to Africa before the election concludes a senseless, costly shambles

Why are so many MPs standing down at the election?

Rishi Sunak’s gamble on going to the country looks sure to rebound

Banning talk of sex from classrooms contradicts the openness and love of learning the philosopher strived for

There’s a simple way to save our crisis-hit universities. But Rishi Sunak is the only one who can’t see it

You might not know it, but you ruined the country. Obviously nothing to do with the Conservative government

The next government could save £20bn on Westminster’s refit by building a new Houses of Parliament in Birmingham

The government’s policy is not built with real children or teenagers in mind

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Dehenna Davison, Nadhim Zahawi, Liz Truss and more

The defence secretary’s “golden age of shipbuilding” announcement merely reiterated plans made years ago

A Belfast court’s ruling confirms that even the prime minister’s small victories end up being defeats

The prime minister's 'sicknote culture' wrongly blames the mentally ill for the country's economic problems

Cummings' return to creating his political party is something to be wary of

Reform hope to consign the Tories to history at the next election. But the faultlines within Nigel Farage’s rebels are already showing

Despite the pandemic and record waiting lists, health spending has gone up less than was promised

After an influx of ex-Labour voters, are they still the party of the climate crisis – or of Corbyn, or Gaza?

Mandrake hears that the new favoured day is November 21

Don’t believe everything you think you hear

The comical hypocrisy of right wing panic over new border schemes

Talk of turning a corner is premature when we’re worse off than this time last year

Labour’s embrace of a defector with a whole lot of baggage raises questions about where Keir Starmer draws the line

Europe Day is here again – and despite the EU’s problems, it is well worth celebrating

The Tory reign will shortly come to an end, and this bunch of incompetent charlatans will not be remembered fondly