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Tugendhat down, two to go: the Tory right is running out of time to beat Sunak

When Suella Braverman was knocked out, she begged her supporters to rally behind Liz Truss – but Kemi Badenoch snapped up more, says Katy Balls, deputy political editor of the Spectator

The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2022

Tory MPs are more focused on who they don’t want as leader than who they do

The two wings of the party are finding it increasingly hard to reconcile and are coalescing around ‘Stop Rishi’ or ‘Stop Liz’, says Katy Balls, the Spectator’s deputy political editor

The Guardian - UK · Jul 13, 2022

‘It’s going to be awful’: Tory MPs are gearing up for a vicious succession battle

It seems inevitable that Boris Johnson will go sooner rather than later, but even loyalists are already vying to take his place, says Katy Balls, the Spectator’s deputy political editor

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2022

No wonder Tory MPs are dreading the next byelection results

Amid the Partygate fallout Boris Johnson is looking like an electoral liability, says Spectator deputy political editor Katy Balls

The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2022

Here’s why the Tories are so obsessed with Starmer’s ‘Beergate’ saga

Johnson loyalists are pushing the story hard ahead of local elections to help neuter Labour’s attacks over the PM’s lockdown breaches, says Spectator deputy political editor Katy Balls

The Guardian - UK · May 4, 2022

To back or to sack? The Tory party is in disarray over Boris Johnson

With Partygate due to rumble on for months, Tory MPs don’t want to publicly support him, but can’t yet oust him either, says Katy Balls, deputy political editor of the Spectator

The Guardian - UK · Apr 25, 2022

Boris Johnson’s great political reinvention is off to a very clunky start

Even those the prime minister was under pressure to sack have just been moved to other government roles, says Katy Balls, the Spectator’s deputy political editor

The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2022

Even if the Tories want Boris Johnson to go, no one is willing to give him a push

MPs may be waiting until May’s local election results to make their move, says the Spectator’s Katy Balls

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2022