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  • Tory leadership candidates Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat on stage

    Bad jokes, war stories and rehashed rhetoric: key takeaways from the Tory leadership speeches

  • British prime minister Sir Keir Starmer in Brussels today.

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    Keir Starmer pays back more than £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality – UK politics live

    Announcement that PM is returning gifts comes after news Labour peer Lord Alli is under investigation by Lords commissioner
  • Waheed Alli.

    Labour donor Waheed Alli under Lords investigation over register of interests

    Peer who gave gifts to Keir Starmer is being investigated after complaint he did not declare interests correctly

  • Keir Starmer pays back £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality

  • Tory leadership contenders square off at conference – Politics Weekly UK

  • Head of civil service Simon Case rejoins Garrick Club six months after quitting it

  • Cleverly’s leadership bid gathers pace as he calls on Tories to be ‘more normal’

  • Post office operators will not all get payouts by March deadline, says minister

  • British forces involved in defending Israel from Iranian attack, says Healey

  • EU pushes Keir Starmer to open door to youth mobility scheme as PM heads to Brussels

  • Some civil servants so bad they should be in prison, says Kemi Badenoch

Opinion

  • John Crace

    The Tories’ Fearless Four battle on to the end. Alas, that’s just the beginning

    John Crace
  • Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat, Kemi Badenoch.

    After the ‘Tory idol’ speeches, who most looks like a leader in waiting? Our panel passes judgment

    John Harris, Katy Balls, Sahil Dutta, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones and John Redwood
  • Lucy Thomas

    I treat the very sick – and I urge politicians to vote against the deeply worrying assisted dying bill

    Lucy Thomas
  • Rafael Behr

    Badenoch, Cleverly, Jenrick, Tugendhat: four ways for the Tories to reach the same wilderness

    Rafael Behr

  • Is this the Tory leadership race or the seventh circle of hell?

    John Crace

  • Martin Rowson on the Conservative party conference – cartoon

  • Former PMs have a wealth of experience. Why not put some on the Tory leadership ballot?

    Simon Jenkins

  • Rosie Duffield’s savage departure raises difficult questions for Keir Starmer. He’d be foolish to ignore them

    Gaby Hinsliff

  • Call this a party conference? It’s more like a weird Tory festival of mass delusion

    Polly Toynbee

  • The Guardian view on the Tory leadership contest: stuck in the past, not focused on the future

  • Please stop Liz Truss making public appearances. Not for our benefit, for hers

    John Crace

  • Why did Kemi Badenoch attack maternity pay? Ask the Tory members…

    Zoe Williams

Features & Analysis

  • 30//09/2024. Canterbury. Vox pop of MP Rosie Duffield's constituents. Nick and Kay Andrews .Photo Sean Smith

    ‘She shouts very loudly’: opinion on Rosie Duffield divided in her constituency

  • Kemi Badenoch raises her hands while speaking during a session at the Conservative party conference

    Right is left and left is right: Kemi Badenoch gets cryptic in Tory pamphlet

  • Robert Jenrick turns his head to look at Kemi Badenoch, who returns his gaze, as they sit in chairs in the TV studio

    As rumours grow of a stop Badenoch campaign, Tories cannot risk a stitch-up

  • Robert Jenrick

    From leadership drama to ideological debate: what to look out for at Conservative party conference

Politics Weekly UK
Every Thursday, Guardian political columnist John Harris hosts a cast of voices from up and down the country as well as across the political spectrum to analyse the week’s political news.

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Cartoons

  • Ben Jennings cartoon of the world balanced on the tip of a missile

    Ben Jennings on the conflict in the Middle East – cartoon

  • Ben Jennings on Kemi Badenoch’s views on maternity pay – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on Kemi Badenoch’s views on maternity pay – cartoon

    The Conservative party leadership hopeful has claimed that maternity pay is ‘excessive’
  • Nicola Jennings on Boris Johnson stealing the limelight at the Tories’ conference – cartoon

    Nicola Jennings on Boris Johnson stealing the limelight at the Tories’ conference – cartoon

    The former prime minister has chosen the platform of his party’s annual gathering to launch his new memoir

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