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Britain’s tallest Tory opens up for first time about being bullied and his ‘heroine’ Kemi Badenoch

James McAlpine, 22, who stands at 7ft 2in, became an unlikely star of last week’s Conservative Party Conference

Evening Standard · Oct 13, 2025

Reform UK announces mass Tory defections as Kemi Badenoch says: 'We're shedding baggage'

Kemi Badenoch tries to brush off the string of defections, which were revealed while she conducted a series of broadcaster interviews on Tuesday

Evening Standard · Oct 7, 2025

OPINION - The Standard View: Rishi Sunak will struggle to be the candidate of change

Every candidate for high office, from the freshest of faces to grizzled incumbents, hopes to pitch themselves as the candidate of change. Rishi Sunak is no different. To that end, the Prime Minister used his Conservative Party Conference speech to declare himself the man to “fundamentally change our country”.

Evening Standard · Oct 4, 2023

The Standard View: Liz Truss must find a way of uniting the Tories. She should start with the Cabinet

As landing zones go, it was a tight one. In her speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Liz Truss needed to try to restore discipline to her Cabinet, instil confidence in the markets and reassure an electorate buffeted by rising prices and mortgage hikes.

Evening Standard · Oct 5, 2022

Conservative Party Conference in lockdown due to 'security incident'

Delegates being kept inside "for their own safety"

Liverpool Echo · Oct 3, 2022

Iceland boss wants Universal Credit to rise £20 a week to help struggling Brits

Richard Walker told a fringe discussion at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham that Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-budget did not do enough to help those on low incomes, and called for the £20 Universal Credit uplift to be reinstated

Daily Mirror · Oct 2, 2022