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Hope has been offered amid ongoing conversations about the future of the long-awaited project

Proposals are being reviewed for a more cost-effective HS2 line to Crewe

The four leadership candidates strutted around Birmingham last week like celebrities, but members seem unimpressed – and MPs think whoever wins might not even last until the next election. How do the Conservatives move forward?

Singer enjoyed event – and so did Conservative members … but his appearance might not win him new fans

Police seek driver believed to have deliberately driven vehicle into crowd of people at university freshers’ event

Hope, it seems, springs eternal in Tory breasts. No matter how disastrous the outlook might appear for their party, members can always cheer themselves up by exercising their right to choose new leaders, in the full knowledge that within months they will be plotting against them for not being “conservative”…

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Delusion and short-term relief brought a strange buzz to Birmingham, with the leadership race still wide open

I am sitting writing this in a corner of the Birmingham ICC, a conference centre and concert venue as though designed by Max Escher with a confusing array of staircases going everywhere and nowhere, it seems. But that is not what strikes me as odd. More, I am struck by…