Tory leader says ‘Britannia Shield’ will not be a similar scheme to that protecting Israel after repeated questions from broadcastersAsked if she will propose tax cuts in her speech tomorrow, Badenoch tells McCann that she will...
Read MoreTory leader says proposed ‘Britannia Shield’ will not be comparable to Israeli missile defence systemUK politics live – latest updatesKemi Badenoch has denied she compared a new air defence system proposed by the party to...
Read MoreConservatives plan ‘new integrated air and missile defence system to protect Britain from attack – in essence, a British “Iron Dome”’This is what the Conservatives are saying about why the UK needs a “Britannia Shield” (their...
Read MoreBadenoch would never have reopened the door on Brexit, but now that the PM has, it suits the Conservatives to let him walk through itThere’s no way on earth it should have worked, but somehow he may have got away with it. Last...
Read MoreOn 14 January this year, army and navy squads faced an unprecedented challenge: one bomb on a Plymouth building site, another floating on a dredger in Exmouth. That afternoon, the clock started tickingEveryone at Exmouth Marina...
Read MoreParty to unveil plans for one of UK’s ‘most significant military programmes since the cold war’ The Conservatives will announce plans to build a £10bn British “Iron Dome” similar to Israel’s air and missile defence system, which...
Read MoreLord Archer died peacefully at home between writing sessions, his publisher saidThe author and former politician Jeffrey Archer has died aged 86.Archer, who was a Conservative MP for five years before serving as the party’s...
Read MoreEuropean Green party says motion goes against its policy, with German Green co-leader calling it ‘intolerable and unacceptable’Zack Polanski may rue lack of leadership when Greens needed him to actThe English and Welsh Greens...
Read MoreBlake Stephenson tells fringe meeting at Tory conference that the town is ‘a very dangerous place’ with ‘ghettoes’A shadow Conservative Home Office minister has claimed there are “no-go zones” in Luton where “white people won’t...
Read MoreParty’s pledge to reduce aid budget from £9bn a year to £1bn to fund new prison places branded as ‘posturing’Conservative plans to slash the aid budget by 90% would leave the UK unable to cover existing contributions to the UN...
Read MoreTit-for-tat expulsions expected after relations deteriorate as a result of UK ban on goods from illegal settlementsThe UK has threatened to expel one Israeli diplomat for every British diplomat forced to leave Israel as a result...
Read MoreA researcher at a climate change think tank says the Conservative policy would be a ‘disaster for first time buyers’Yesterday, as a gimmick, the Tories were handing out “Bottler Burnham” bottles of water (“0% strength”) to make...
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