Category: Conservative conference

Tory leadership candidates in key face-off at party conference – UK politics live

Jenrick, Cleverly, Badenoch and Tugendhat to all get 20 minutes to pitch their vision to membersGood morning. There are plenty of more important things in politics than who becomes the next Conservative leader – two thirds...

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Kemi Badenoch says too many are ‘living off government’ and too many people go to university – UK politics live

Leadership hopeful says too many people rely on government and not just civil servants or ‘equality, diversity and inclusion instructors’ Popular Conservatism, or PopCon, has released the results of a survey of party...

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Kemi Badenoch says too many people ‘living off government’ – UK politics live

Leadership hopeful says too many people rely on government and not just civil servants or ‘equality, diversity and inclusion instructors’ Popular Conservatism, or PopCon, has released the results of a survey of party...

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Cleverly backs replacing BBC licence fee with subscription model and says he will accept gifts if made Tory leader– UK politics live

Leadership hopeful says BBC should look at Netflix model and says there is no problem with accepting gifts as an MP if declared properlyPopular Conservatism, or PopCon, has released the results of a survey of party members...

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Ex-defence secretary Grant Shapps says he has seen ‘no evidence’ for Jenrick’s claim about SAS killing terrorists – UK politics live

Senior Tories condemn leadership hopeful’s claim UK special forces are killing terrorists over fears that European laws would free detained assailantsPopular Conservatism, or PopCon, has released the results of a survey of...

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Tugendhat condemns Tory rival over claim UK special forces ‘kill rather than capture terrorists’

Party leadership contender says Robert Jenrick’s remarks show ‘fundamental misunderstanding’ of law of warUK politics live – latest updatesThe former security minister Tom Tugendhat has criticised his...

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Tory leadership rivals turn on Jenrick over claims SAS ‘killing, not capturing, terrorists’ – UK politics live

Tugendhat and Cleverly echo criticisms from Labour and the military as the Tory conference gears up for another dayGood morning. In a leadership contest, sometimes the dynamic changes because one candidate has a postive...

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Cleverly says it was a mistake for Sunak to say he would ‘stop the boats’ because that was ‘unachievable target’ – as it happened

Former home secretary says the phrase ‘stop the boats’ was ‘an error’ and it was too complicated a problem to distil into a soundbite. This live blog is closedRobert Jenrick has used a campaign rally just...

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