Category: Grant Shapps

Revealed: Home Office ‘completely lost grip’ at notorious Manston asylum centre

Court documents contain admissions by officials that they were unable to control the situation at the Kent facility where 18,000 asylum seekers were illegally detainedRacial abuse, physical assaults and no beds: life at Manston...

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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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Who could replace Rishi Sunak as Tory leader if he loses the election?

Likely contenders for party’s sixth leader in eight years could depend partly on who survives a big defeatWhat, again? Most likely yes. If the pundits are right, then soon after a seemingly inevitable Conservative election...

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Reform UK plans ‘don’t add up’ and costings are out ‘by tens of billions of pounds per year’, says IFS – UK general election live

As Nigel Farage launches party’s manifesto, Institute for Fiscal Studies says ‘the package as a whole is problematic’Sign up for the general election newsletterKeir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have been...

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Nigel Farage claims young people have had their minds ‘poisoned’ with negative views about Britain – UK general election live

Farage launches party manifesto in traditional Labour stronghold of Merthyr TydfilSign up for the general election newsletterKeir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have been campaigning in Hampshire this morning. Stefan Rousseau from PA...

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Labour winning huge majority ‘deeply unhealthy for democracy’, former Tory attorney general claims – general election live

Geoffrey Cox says UK ‘sleepwalking’ towards ‘one-party socialist state’ which would be ‘horrific’ for Conservatives and LabourSign up for Election Edition, our UK election newsletterIn an...

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General election live: Green party defends ‘ambitious’ spending plans at manifesto launch

The Greens’ spending commitments include £50bn for the NHS and £29bn to insulate homesSign up for Election Edition, our UK election newsletterIn an interview with ITV due to be broadcast on Wednesday evening,...

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