All news on the topic: Conservative Party

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Tories need to get election over with to spare them (and us) any more pain
While the Tories flounder at the bottom of the polls and with major pressure on Rishi Sunak, the best thing would be to call an early election in May to get the pain over and done with
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Top Tories took £13k in ski trip freebies while NHS docs struggled during strike
Eight Tory MPs - including former prime minister Liz Truss - lapped up freebies and benefits during a recent jaunt to Davos, all while junior doctors were forced to strike over low pay
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Top Tories publish article urging more defence cash in blow to Sunak's authority
Serving ministers Tom Tugendhat and Anne-Marie Trevelyan posted a plea for more defence spending on LinkedIn for some reason - and didn't clear it with No10 first
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Activists deface painting of ex-Tory PM who signed Palestine declaration
The painting of former Tory Prime Minister Lord Arthur Balfour was painted red and slashed by pro-Palestine protesters at Cambridge University's Trinity College on Friday
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Labour on course to oust Tory poster boy mayor Ben Houchen in blow for Sunak
A new poll found just 19% of voters in Tees Valley planned to vote for incumbent Ben Houchen - one of only two metro mayors the party has - with 45% backing Labour
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Gillian Keegan's worst gaffes as Tory says she'd punch rude Ofsted inspectors
Tory Education Secretary Gillian Keegan told headteachers she would 'probably have punched' rude Ofsted inspectors if she was a teacher in her latest outspoken remarks
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Tory Minister inflates number of Labour MPs quitting as his party faces exodus
Treasury Minister Gareth Johnson botched the numbers when challenged by Sky News' Anna Jones on whether Conservatives are quitting because they fear electoral wipeout
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All the Tory MPs stepping down as party fears general election wipeout
Nervy Conservatives MPs are turning their minds to the possibility of a Labour victory - and with several 2019 MPs deciding to quit before the next general election
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Theresa May announces she's quitting as MP as she shares verdict on Tory chances
The former Prime Minister said she will not be re-standing in Maidenhead, which she has represented for 27 years, as she joins an exodus of Tory MPs ahead of the election
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Moment Tory MP left speechless on Question Time after question about tax hikes
Welsh secretary David TC Davies had to deal with sharp questions from BBC Question Time host Fiona Bruce after claiming the 2p National Insurance cut would leave families better off
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'Budget was hit-and-run on the elderly - this betrayal of our over 75s must end'
There are already more than two million pensioners living in relative poverty - Conservatives will leave even more people worried about how they are going to heat their homes, pay their bills and eat
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'Those fighting for beliefs need support now - before it's in history books'
Political columnist Paul Routledge on the how people who were reviled in life for standing up for what they believe in - like the miners - are only celebrated in death
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Margaret Thatcher deliberately delayed pit closures which caused Miners’ Strike
The bombshell papers, from the archives of the National Coal Board, also show that ministers and coal bosses were aware the programme would lead to compulsory redundancies
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Rishi Sunak gives three-word clue to when the general election will be
The PM fuelled rumours he could call an early election this lunchtime when he failed to deny that he was secretly plotting a vote in May during an interview on BBC Radio 2
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Labour rakes in highest ever amount of private donations to compete with Tories
As well as receiving funding from trade unions, the Labour Party saw an increase in the amount of money received from individuals and companies, who gave over £13million
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Penny Mordaunt says we should applaud Tory who left taxpayers with £15,000 bill
Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt has defended Science and Tech Secretary Michelle Donelan after she falsely accused academic Professor Kate Sang of supporting Hamas
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Jeremy Hunt backtracks on National Insurance after he's compared to Liz Truss
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was accused of acting like Liz Truss after he said in the Budget he wanted to scrap National Insurance altogether without saying how he'd pay for it
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'This failing Tory government's hollow death throes budget is fooling no-one'
Jeremy Hunt tried to bribe voters by cutting national insurance again and offering a small increase in child benefit - but nobody is going to fall for this Tory con trick
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Suella Braverman lambasts Jeremy Hunt's Budget in Tory civil war nightmare
Suella Braverman said Jeremy Hunt's Budget doesn't 'tell the British people that we're on their side and that work really pays' ahead of a brutal post-election leadership race
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Rishi Sunak told to call general election now as Budget flops with voters
Keir Starmer demanded Rishi Sunak call a general election now as he accused him of being 'out of touch, out of ideas and nearly out of road' as the Budget flopped
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'Budget needed much better salesman than Hunt to sound even remotely plausible'
'Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is gambling voters will swallow the sugar-rush of tax cuts and ignore the bitter taste of further public spending cuts,' the Mirror's Jason Beattie writes
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Rishi Sunak's family can still benefit from tax loophole worth up to £300m
Jeremy Hunt said he was scrapping non-dom tax loopholes in the Budget - but exemption from inheritance tax isn't part of the changes introduced today
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'Tories have run the UK into the ground and working people have paid the price'
TUC general secretary Paul Nowak warns that "zombie" Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has put forward a "deeply cynical" budget while public services are on their knees
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'Damp squib Budget to be remembered as Chancellor signing party’s death warrant'
'The fight has gone out of Jeremy Hunt and the Tories, that lightweight Budget a wave of white flag. It’s as if the battered Conservatives are surrendering after four election wins'
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Tory minister cost taxpayers £15,000 in defamation case as she faces quit calls
Science and Tech Secretary Michelle Donelan has faced calls to resign after taxpayers were forced to foot the legal bill after she falsely accused an academic of expressing sympathy for Hamas