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If Starmer’s party is seen as one that values minorities only when they need protection, solid sources of votes will dry up, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

12 years of Tory rule have also shredded the safety nets on which people used to rely. At the same time they have turned the screws on the unions and failed to deliver on their promises to improve employment rights. Here's 50 reasons the patience of workers has finally snapped

The final five Tory candidates enter a war of words as the fight for votes gets nasty

The SNP leader made clear however that any negotiation would be on the detail of the vote, not the principle

With six candidates still standing, our panellists discuss who would make the best – or least worst – prime minister

What does the Conservative membership want? Tax cuts? A war on woke? If the results of today’s YouGov survey are anything to go by, the answer is straightforward: Penny Mordaunt.

The race to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson is being called Britain's most diverse political leadership campaign

The list of contenders in the running to be the next UK prime minister is notably diverse – the result of years of work to promote ethnic minority talent within the conservative party. But would a black or Asian prime minister be a leap forward for racial equality in the…

Elon Musk says he no longer wants to buy Twitter – but the social media platform has changed the world, made us laugh, and made us furious. We look at some of its landmark moments

Boris Johnson’s resignation as Conservative leader has triggered the start of the process to find his successor. Rules setting out a two-month leadership election have now been confirmed by the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs.

The sorry state of the British Conservatives is a cautionary tale of what can happen when politics is driven by marketing, and when economic analysis is a nice-to-have, says Oliver Hartwich