Shadow environment secretary Victoria Atkins says her party will vote against the proposed rise in employers’ national insurance contributions. Trevor Phillips put it to her that the party under Kemi Badenoch is returning to the “Tory party of the past”, with their opposition to VAT on private schools, winter fuel payment cuts and national insurance…
Kemi Badenoch has replaced the party’s former leader Rishi Sunak and has promised to win back voters who abandoned the Conservatives Kemi Badenoch has been elected as the new leader of the UK’s Conservatives in a vote on Saturday, replacing Rishi Sunak and becoming the first black woman to lead a major British political party.Born…
A Conservative MP has said Tories who have expressed a lack of confidence in Boris Johnson have faced intimidation from the party and should contact the police if they have been blackmailed. William Wragg, chair of the public administration and constitutional affairs committee, said a “number of MPs have faced intimidation” after declaring, or assumed…
Sky News projects that, if the 4.5 million votes cast in the local elections were extrapolated to a general election, the result would be a hung parliament. Along with a team of psephologists, Sky’s data and economics editor Ed Conway has calculated that the Tories would remain the largest party with 278 seats, closely followed…
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