Politics

Top Tory Kemi Badenoch insisted she is not plotting to topple Rishi Sunak - but her former colleague Nadine Dorries accused her of harbouring leadership ambitions

Royal Navy destroyer HMS Diamond was forced to defend itself with Sea Viper missiles on Saturday after the latest attack from Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the Red Sea

Money Saving Expert founder Martin Lewis took to social media to address speculation he had his eye on entering Downing Street after voters said they'd like him to be PM

Rosena Allin-Khan could be seen shaking her head at former Tory MP Nadine Dorries as they appeared on a panel together on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show

Bungling officials awarded Nadine Dorries a severance payment when she stepped down as Culture Secretary - despite the fact she was not actually entitled to the cash

Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch is being talked up in Westminster as a possible successor to flailing Rishi Sunak as panicking Tories discuss installing a new leader

The Tories were accused of 'pathetic attempts to hide the truth' with claim to have cut NHS waits when numbers were higher than when Rishi Sunak vowed to slash the backlog

Conservative Party has introduced voter ID, which threatens to disenfranchise two million people if they turn up on the day without the right documents, and is now accused of trying to rig the election

Infosys, of which Akshata Murty owns around 39 million shares, has been on an “approved list” of suppliers for public sector contracts worth more than £750million in recent months

With thousands predicting "utter electoral oblivion", Keir Mudie blasts the Conservative Party and the Tories' repeated plots, which he says "are not making temperance easy"

Losses in Wellingborough and Kingswood - especially if accompanied by a surge in support for the Reform Party - would spell further misery for the beleaguered PM

The former minister, who has entertained Westminster with lurid tales of plots and schemes by shadowy figures to overthrow her old boss, Boris Johnson, announced she would quit as an MP “with immediate effect” on June 9 last year. But it took until 23 August for her to actually put in her letter and vacate her Mid-Beds seat.

The independent Electoral Commission slammed the plans, comparing the proposals to a cricket team “telling the umpire how to enforce the rules of the game”

Wales' economy minister previously served in the health ministry for seven years - but his first experience of the country was one of rejection and racism.

The PM was asked by Labour MP Sarah Champion in the Commons to back an alternative plan for the town’s steelworks that would save all 8,000 at the plant while still transitioning to low carbon steelmaking

The pair are being investigated by the National Crime Agency for alleged PPE fraud during Covid and the court order covers assets including a £25million townhouse in Belgravia, Central London, and an estate on the Isle of Man

The weird anti-woke agenda the Tories want voters to buy into is a smokescreen to hide the misery, division, economic decline and decimation of social fabric they have inflicted writes Brian Reade

Figures show £933,086 was handed out in a year as the changes in PM from Boris Johnson to Liz Truss and then Rishi Sunak led to an unprecedented turnover in ministers

Suzanne Winter told the Post Office Inquiry that investigators were ranked one to five on their ability to recover cash from postmasters accused of false accounting and theft

Ex-Tory MP Nadine Dorries received the generous severance payment when she stepped down as Culture Secretary even though she was not entitled to the cash as she was over 65

The Northern Powerhouse Partnership said the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt must overhaul the 'actively regressive' and 'broken' council tax model based on 1991 valuations of homes

The row with Canada marks the first time the UK Government has pulled out of trade talks since Brexit as tensions erupted over terms of the deal over cheese and beef

Alex Burghart pleaded with BBC Question Time viewers to 'hear me out' as he desperately tried to defend Rishi Sunak from a savage Tory attack on his leadership

A top NATO commander says the UK's alliance with Ukraine - after Sunak increased military aid to £2.5billion a year - is preparing for a conflict with Russia “in the next 20 years”

MPs were told that tourists heading to Europe could be forced to join mammoth queues around the Port of Dover when the new EU Entry-Exit System launches in October