The Latest Breaking News from Winston Churchill

Despite current polling, Alex Ross encounters Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg in jovial mood as he knocks on doors for support ahead of 4 July

Aiming to reclaim his party’s role as the builders of “property-owning democracy”, Rishi Sunak used the Conservative manifesto launch to praise his predecessor Harold Macmillan. As Winston Churchill’s housing minister in the 1950s, Macmillan first set the target of completing more than 300,000 homes across the UK each year.

He could conveniently castigate the forum when things went wrong. Now the blame can only go in one direction, says Alon Pinkas, a columnist for Haaretz

Guardian analysis of messaging in post-war Tory and Labour manifestos reveals shifting political focus

“The problem with my dear fellow Tory MPs is they all think they’re Winston Churchill,” a weary Cabinet minister told me this week. “Every single one of them.” Like many in the Conservative Party now, the minister has given up hope over the general election result.

Reform candidate claimed that women were the ‘sponging gender’ and that wartime leader Winston Churchill was abysmal

‘Panorama’ special postponed as Reform UK party faces row over candidate who claimed UK would have been ‘better off’ if it had ‘taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality’ instead of fighting the Nazis

He also praised Russian president Vladimir Putin and described Winston Churchill as ‘abysmal’

Candidate for Bexhill and Battle also wrote online that women were the ‘sponging gender’ and should be ‘deprived of health care’

Some analysts believe Kyiv is buying the west time on the precipice of a world war. Is it being used wisely?

It's been 80 years since Christian Lamb helped rescue France from Nazi tyranny