Conservative Party

Why does the leader of the Conservative Party have such a disturbing set of role models?

Telling small groups of people that they will be taken seriously if only they shout loudly enough is damaging for democracy

The sneaky, the snobbish and the snide. The spiteful, the shameless and the downright sinister. They are all shits – and all here in the New European’s annual rundown of 50 people the UK could definitely do without

Too centralised, too short term, too obsessed with Twitter, our political system is a dysfunctional mess. If we don’t fix it, we’ll all suffer

In making them a carbon copy of Reform, the new leader of the opposition shows she is neither thoughtful nor serious

Badenoch, for all her anti-woke diatribes, is the wrong kind of Tory rightist. She will lead them defeat, and quite possibly eclipse by Reform

The hard right has achieved political power across Europe. British politics now faces exactly the same risk

The new Conservative leader appears to recall growing up in a very different Nigeria to the one which existed

The new Tory leader has been handed a shaky mandate by a depleted party rooted in deep denial

The short-lived former PM has once again popped up in Budget week to offer her wise counsel

Stirring things up over this summer’s riots is bad, demanding that former colonies doff the cap is arguably even worse

£100,000 for breaching impartiality rules is nothing to the loss-making channel

The roots of Britain’s water crisis, like so many now facing the country, lay in Thatcherite deregulation

Pressure to leave the European Convention on Human Rights won’t stop even if Robert Jenrick loses the Tory leadership election

The shameless survivor who brought you Brexit doesn’t deserve another platform

Former Conservative Party chairman Richard Holden has quickly forgotten his north-east roots

The government should be tackling the roots of populism, not scoffing at ‘unelectable’ opponents who embrace it

He has no charisma, intellectual consistency or distinguishing features of any kind. Other than being very, very right wing, who – or what – is he?

The leadership race increasingly looks like the last hurrah before the party's long descent

By the time another election looms, Conservative MPs will sniff potential doom and ditch their leader for a more Machiavellian individual

It’s nice for politicians to be able to hide from the real world for a while, it’s just a shame there’s a real world out there to fix

An unexpectedly strong Tory conference speech leaves the right wing candidates unsure of reaching the final vote

Tory MPs are worried by the former trade secretary’s gaffe over maternity benefits

The new prime minister’s government has started with worrying echoes of how his predecessor’s ended

Claims of ‘proof’ that foreign workers cost Britain more than they put in are nebulous in the extreme

In his Daily Mail column, Robert Jenrick has delivered a masterclass in “early-onset authoritarianism”

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Owen Paterson, Graham Brady, Dan Wootton and more

The slow march towards crushing defeat goes on

The next leader will be unlikely to take the Tories into the next election