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Former Tory chairman defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in blow to Kemi Badenoch

Sir Jake Berry, who was chairman of the Tories under Liz Truss and a staunch Boris Johnson ally has defected to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2025

Former leading Tory Sir Jake Berry joins Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

Sir Jake, who served as Tory chairman in Liz Truss’ short-lived government, said the Conservatives have ‘lost their way’.

Evening Standard · Jul 9, 2025

‘I meant it!’: Former Tory minister reacts to infamous viral comment caught on hot mic

Former education secretary Gillian Keegan has spoken to ex-Labour MPs Jon Ashworth and Gloria De Piero for their Politics Inside Out podcast and addressed an infamous post interview comment she made when she mistakenly thought the camera was off

The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2025

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Liz Truss is long gone – but her fiscal meltdown still dictates every step Labour makes

A jittery No 10 now seeks the market’s approval for everything. The result? Cruel cuts and a fear of desperately needed public spending, says economist Max Mosley

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2025

Voices: Could Nigel Farage do worse as prime minister? You better believe it

COMMENT: We ought to take Reform seriously as a possible party of government – and Nigel Farage as a possible PM – so let’s give his ideas the scrutiny they deserve, writes John Rentoul

The Independent UK · Jul 5, 2025

Ex-deputy PM Therese Coffey claims civil servants advised her to break the law

Baroness Therese Coffey told the House of Lords that she had been advised to knowingly break the law, but said ‘I wasn’t prepared to do that’.

Evening Standard · Jul 4, 2025

Why Starmer finally came out to give his full backing to his tearful chancellor

NEWS ANALYSIS: After Rachel Reeves’ tears and a complete failure by the prime minister to appreciate the gravity of his situation in PMQs, Sir Keir Starmer had to intervene quickly prevent the markets being spooked further, says David Maddox

The Independent UK · Jul 3, 2025

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Rachel Reeves year in review: Chancellor's 2025 is no cause for celebration

City confidence in her is rock bottom — and Rachel Reeves’s high wire act is just one misstep away from a full blown financial crisis, says Jonathan Prynn

Evening Standard · Jul 2, 2025

UK bond yields rise sharply amid speculation over future of Rachel Reeves

Cost of government borrowing leaps as investors take fright from PMQs, before falling back as No 10 says chancellor staying in post

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2025

Starmer’s start as PM worse than Liz Truss, claims expert

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The Independent UK · Jun 29, 2025

Keir Starmer has had worse start as PM than Liz Truss, expert claims

Labour prime minister’s record in office more ‘inept’ than that of Liz Truss, top historian says

The Independent UK · Jun 29, 2025

Reeves, the Archangel of Hope, fails miserably at making us all feel better off

The chancellor vowed to renew Britain in her spending review but it all felt like an exercise in cognitive dissonance

The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2025

Voices: How Labour’s spending review was shaped by Reform UK

COMMENT: The chancellor insisted her choices were ‘Labour choices’. But as I watched her deliver her statement, I couldn’t help thinking that much of it was aimed at seeing off the rising threat to Labour from Nigel Farage, writes Andrew Grice

The Independent UK · Jun 11, 2025

PM picked ‘wrong Chancellor and wrong priorities’, claims Badenoch

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch accused Sir Keir Starmer of appearing at the despatch box ‘all puffed up and self-righteous’.

The Independent UK · Jun 11, 2025

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The National (Scotland) · Jun 11, 2025

Scottish Labour MP raises 'SNP calls for John Swinney to quit' with Prime Minister

A Scottish Labour MP has used her opportunity to ask the Prime Minister a question on UK Government policy to focus on the SNP and John Swinney

Evening Standard · Jun 8, 2025

Zia Yusuf’s return to Reform UK ‘great news’, says deputy leader

He quit as chairman on Thursday but has now said that was the result of ‘exhaustion’ and working for 11 months ‘without a day off’.

Evening Standard · Jun 6, 2025

Kemi Badenoch refuses to kick Liz Truss out of Conservative Party

The Tory leader suggested such a move would be ‘neither here nor there’ for voters’ perception of the party.

The Independent UK · Jun 6, 2025

John Rentoul answers your Farage questions: ‘Reform voters aren’t unreasonable – they’re desperate’

ASK ME ANYTHING: Our chief political commentator John Rentoul answers your questions as Nigel Farage’s Reform surges in the polls, capitalising on widespread voter disillusionment and posing a serious challenge to the political establishment

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The Independent UK · Jun 5, 2025

Even Kemi Badenoch’s closest allies admit she needs to get better - but she may be running out of time

NEWS ANALYSIS: When the best thing the most senior member of a party leader’s team can say about them is that ‘she will get better through time’, then the Tories know they have a serious problem, writes David Maddox

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2025

Liz Truss hits back at Tory shadow chancellor for mini-budget disavowal

Former PM accuses Mel Stride of being ‘creature of system’ after his formal repudiation of 2022 unfunded tax cuts

The Conversation · Jun 5, 2025

Mel Stride promises the Tories won’t repeat the mistakes of Liz Truss – except they already have

It’s a mistake to think that, when it comes to the UK economy, the Conservatives have always been seen by British voters as a safer pair of hands than Labour. But, notwithstanding the damaging austerity imposed on the country by David Cameron’s chancellor, George Osborne, it was, by and large,…

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2025

Like a rural bank manager, Sideshow Mel wades into the Tory battle for irrelevance

For some reason, Stride used his first keynote speech as shadow chancellor to discuss the abject failure of his party

Evening Standard · Jun 5, 2025

Badenoch ‘will get better’, says Stride as Tories’ polling woes continue

The shadow chancellor insisted the party has the right person in the top job.

The Independent UK · Jun 5, 2025

Liz Truss attacks Tories who ‘kowtowed’ ahead of mini-budget apology

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The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2025

Tories will never again put economy at risk like Liz Truss did, Mel Stride says

Shadow chancellor accepts Truss’s mini-budget badly damaged party in clearest repudiation yet of ex-PM

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