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Labour accused of meddling after vetoing local authority coalition plans

Concerns attempts to block local deals with Lib Dems or Greens risk allowing Tories to regain control of councils

The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2023

After Brexit: what are the Tories really for?

As Rishi Sunak flew off to Japan, he left behind a party flailing around for an identity

The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2023

Loyalty has long been the Tories’ secret weapon. Without it, Sunak stands no chance

As rebel rightwingers jockeyed for position this week, they tore up any remaining hopes of a Conservative election victory, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · May 19, 2023

It’s no longer ‘the will of the people’ to turn our back on asylum seekers

Passing laws to detain and deport migrants suits some Tories, but it is not what voters want

The Guardian - UK · May 14, 2023

9 times flip-flopping Rishi Sunak broke his promises - from NHS waiting lists to taxes

The PM has become notorious for chucking promises made to voters as he has whacked up taxes, failed to cut record hospital waiting lists and ditched a Brexit pledge to scrap EU laws

Daily Mirror · May 12, 2023

SNP demand debate on 'thought police' after anti-monarchy arrests

AN SNP MP has called for a debate on the “thought police” in response to the Tories’ new anti-protest laws which resulted in the arrest of…

The National (Scotland) · May 11, 2023

The Guardian view on coalitions: normal democratic practice

Editorial: The Tories are scaremongering about other parties doing deals because they are too toxic to do any deals of their own

The Guardian - UK · May 10, 2023

They call it ‘projection’ but it’s a grand deception. And it’s Sunak’s only hope of staying in power

For decades, the Tories have perfected the psychological trick of displacing their own negative traits and failures on to their enemies, says writer Samuel Earle

The Guardian - UK · May 9, 2023

Prime Minister's 'major mistake' that 'cost Tories at local elections'

'We cannot out-Nimby the Liberal Democrats and the Greens'

Manchester Evening News · May 8, 2023

Sunak made ‘major mistake’ in dropping housebuilding targets, senior Tory says

The Tories shed 960 councillors across England in Thursday’s elections in a result approaching the party’s most pessimistic predictions.

The Independent UK · May 8, 2023