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Exclusive Ipsos survey for The Standard also dashes hopes among some Tories that replacing Mr Sunak would boost their party’s fortunes

Stories have emerged of a foul mood in Downing Street; it was ever thus behind the scenes in a dying administration

In London, rates for Battersea power station’s £8m flats are still set with reference to its low-value past, and their rich owners pay less than householders in Hartlepool

In the history of fag-end governments, Sunak’s must be the worst

Gordon Brown also attacks Labour successor Sir Keir Starmer over ‘gang of four’ Cabinet reports

Worse than John Major amid sleaze, Boris Johnson following partygate and Liz Truss in the immediate aftermath of the calamitous “mini-Budget”. The Conservatives under Rishi Sunak have fallen to a record low of 20 per cent, according to an exclusive Ipsos poll. This is their weakest result since 1978, when…

Refusal by Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish leaders to approve candidates means whole recruitment process may have to be rerun

One of the most popular disc jockeys on British radio in the 1980s who used a ‘zoo’ format to pull in audiences of eight million

Irish taoiseach who helped pave the way for the Good Friday Agreement and laid the foundations for economic growth

Keiran Pedley, director of politics at Ipsos, analyses Rishi Sunak's chances of avoiding a landslide defeat for the Conservatives at the next election

Blair surged to power with a Nineties soundtrack of optimism and Tory economic success. For Keir Starmer, if the polls are right, it will be a case of hard graft from day one, writes George Chesterton