All news on the topic: Conservative Party

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£14.9billion wasted on PPE, Covid tests and vaccine that won't be used
Labour’s Wes Streeting said it was 'staggering' the taxpayers’ money had been 'wasted on useless' as he warned the Conservatives can 'never again claim to be the careful stewards of the public finances'
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Tory Rod Stewart calls Sky News to say 'give Labour a go' amid NHS 'heartbreak'
Sir Rod Stewart was an unexpected caller to Sky News this afternoon where he attacked the Government over the state of the NHS and offered to pay for scans for people stuck on waiting lists
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Andrew Bridgen threatens to sue Matt Hancock over Covid vaccine comments row
North West Leicestershire MP Andrew Bridgen was stripped of the Tory whip after he appeared to compare the effects of coronavirus jabs to the Holocaust
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Tory MP Jonathan Gullis branded 'pound shop Farage' over missing children heckle
Former schools minister Jonathan Gullis is accused of saying migrant children feared to have been snatched by criminals ""shouldn't have come here illegally"
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Unpaid taxes rose by £5billion in Nadhim Zahawi's three months as chancellor
The Liberal Democrats, who uncovered the figures, accused the Tories of 'allowing eye-watering amounts of taxes to go unpaid while our local health services are left desperately underfunded and overstretched'
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HMRC chief suggests Nadhim Zahawi did not make 'innocent' tax error
The permanent secretary at the tax office Jim Harra also said HMRC would 'help with the inquiry' into the Tory Chairman 'in any way we possibly can' if requested by Rishi Sunak ethics adviser
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Rishi Sunak whisks Cabinet to 'hideaway' as ministers absent from TV yet again
The Prime Minister's top team will today meet for an away day at his grace-and-favour country house, Chequers, in Buckinghamshire as pressure mounts over Nadhim Zahawi's tax penalty
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'Disabled people having to forgo heating or eating to run breathing equipment'
Some disabled people are so poor right now that the old heating vs eating chestnut has been pushed up a few unbelievable grades to breathing vs heating or eating
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'The West stands with Ukraine - Russia's evil and illegal invasion must not win'
This display of solidarity by Western nations sends a powerful message to Vladimir Putin that they remain steadfast in their support for President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people
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Tories on verge of breaking pledge to recruit 20,000 police officers by March
Figures released today by the Home Office reveal the government must recruit a massive 3,427 officers by the end of March, amid fears low pay is putting off would-be coppers
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No10 says Rishi Sunak has never paid a tax penalty after Labour says come clean
Earlier today the Prime Minister's press secretary repeatedly refused to answer questions over whether Rishi Sunak had ever been asked to pay a penalty by HMRC like under-fire Tory Nadhim Zahawi - but later clarified that he hadn't
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Keir Starmer ridicules 'weak' Rishi Sunak for failing to sack Nadhim Zahawi
The Labour leader blasted the Prime Minister saying he is 'overseeing chaos' and 'overwhelmed at every turn' as the Tory Chairman fights to keep his role in the Cabinet
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'Tory justice on the cheap sees 600 murdered in decade by crooks on probation'
That shocking toll, plus figures revealing more than 500 other serious offences a year are committed by those on probation, is evidence of a lawlessness and disorder crisis
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Tory scandals plaguing Rishi Sunak - from Zahawi's taxes to Raab bullying row
Rishi Sunak promise to restore 'integrity' to Government after Boris Johnson's time in Downing Street was dominated by allegations of sleaze and scandal. Let's see how that's going...
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New 'fire & rehire' rules 'not stopping' another P&O-type scandal, union warns
Labour's Angela Rayner and the Trades Union Congress have slammed the Government's "shameful" new rules to tackle fire and rehire practices, saying it is just a "reheated" and "repeated" regulation
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Is it fair to be made to work until you're 68? Take our poll
Changes to state pension age mean millions of us are set to graft for longer - but is it right?
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Tory lawbreaking makes UK look 'unreliable' to global allies, warns David Lammy
The Shadow Foreign Secretary said that police fines for both Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunk while in No10 - and Tory legislation that aimed to flout international law 'damages our moral authority and political credibility'
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Experienced emergency nurses leaving NHS in 'droves', health leader warns
The President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Dr Adrian Boyle told MPs he is worried 'burn out will lead to burn away' with existing health service staff overwhelmed
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Boris Johnson loan probe into BBC chair to be run by father of Senior No10 aide
William Shawcross, the Commissioner for Public Appointments, will lead a probe into Richard Sharp’s appointment as BBC chair. But Mr Shawcross’s daughter, Eleanor, is head of No10’s policy unit
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'Rich pals club' where money, power and connections are linked to Tory scandals
The cast list is small but it involves three Prime Ministers, the party’s chairman and two multi-millionaires
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Rishi Sunak urged to 'grow a backbone' and sack Nadhim Zahawi over £5m tax row
Rishi Sunak ordered a probe and admitted there were 'questions that need answering' as the Tory party Chair and former Chancellor hung onto his job for another day
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Rishi Sunak must stick to promise to publish his tax return, demands Labour
Labour party chair Anneliese Dodds urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to get on with his pledge to publish his tax return, which he made shortly after entering Downing Street
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Tory shame of asylum-seeking children missing from hotel run by Home Office
Darren Lewis is appalled by reports that defenceless kids are being abducted from a Government-run hotel for asylum seekers
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Should Nadhim Zahawi resign over tax row? Take our poll
Allies of the Tory chairman say he has no plans to quit despite paying a multi-million pound penalty to resolve a dispute with HMRC - but critics say he has questions to answer
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Tories 'testing the water' for two-tier NHS, ex-PM Gordon Brown claims
The former Labour Prime Minister made the remarks after Rishi Sunak proposed charging patients for missed NHS appointments in the summer and ex-Health Secretary Sajid Javid also raised the prospect of charges