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“Stop messing around” was Kemi Badenoch’s forthright advice to desperate Tory backbenchers, flirting with a Hail Mary leader switch before the election. The ex-defence secretary, Ben Wallace, who speaks as if addressing a slightly dim Army platoon, put the same thought just more pessimistically, as he urged colleagues to set…

Allies of Commons leader say other future candidates for top job are trying to make her look disloyal

PM’s allies fight rearguard action as rebellious MPs reportedly plot coup to avoid wipeout at the polls

Even centrist Tories are questioning if the PM can last until autumn after twin blows of donor scandal and rightwinger’s move to Reform

Cabinet minister urges backbenchers to have confidence in party leadership amid reports of plot to remove PM

Frank Hester, Lee Anderson, an unpopular budget … as the catalogue of Conservative disasters piles up, discipline seems to be breaking down, and any hope of election victory fading

Senior Tories have rallied around the PM amid claims that some party MPs are plotting to replace him with Penny Mordaunt

A trip to A&E and more awards for actors while MPs struggled to hold an adult debate on Gaza

At a time when people were hoping for something better from their MPs, Penny chose to kick them in the teeth again