All news on the topic: Conservative Party

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Top Tory MPs ask for £10k daily rate to work for fake Korean company
Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock said agreed to a daily rate of £10,000 to further the interests of the bogus firm - the experiment was set up by campaign group Led By Donkeys
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Extent of rot in Met Police is what's shocks, and fixing it will take brains
Former Home Secretary Lord Blunkett says the force must "systematically rid the service of the corrosive individuals who are not just “bad-apples”, but something far more insidious"
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Boris Johnson 'toast' after Partygate grilling - what's likely to happen now
Here's what is likely to happen next after Boris Johnson's tetchy evidence session before the Privileges Committee
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Childcare cliff-edge looms as parents set to foot bill for after-school care
Jeremy Hunt announced an "ambition" for all primary schools to provide childcare between 8am and 6pm in last week’s Budget speech - but when the 'startup cash' runs out, parents will be on the hook
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MPs claim £63k on first class tickets in months - and moan about public knowing
Taxpayers footed the bill for top-flight journeys made by 115 MPs, with Tory Anne Marie Morris claiming the most back with £2,842 for 11 trips from her constituency to London
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Non-league spirit helps Walthamstow FC quadruple attendance amid rising costs
NON-LEAGUE DAY: Walthamstow FC have enjoyed a jump in their attendances - despite the cost-of-living crisis - by offering affordable football and connecting with the community
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'British dental services are so wretched because of Tory failures to invest'
'The shortage of NHS dentists has left patients with a choice of expensive private treatment, suffering in silence or DIY agony'
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Hancock claims extra £1,100 a month in expenses to rent love nest after split
The former Health Secretary has been claiming £3,300 a month for a property in London since September, shortly before he earned £320,000 for appearing on TV reality show, I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here
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Fury as 49-day PM Liz Truss 'gives peerages to people who plunged UK into chaos'
Liz Truss - who lasted just 49 days as PM after she tanked the economy - has nominated at least four new lifelong members of the House of Lords.
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Partygate PM Boris Johnson should not get another shot at No10, say voters
The disgraced ex-Premier should be denied another chance at leading Britain, according to a Redfield & Wilton Strategies poll for the Mirror. It comes as MPs are investigating whether he deliberately misled Parliament
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'Rishi Sunak's taxes show the Tories have learned nothing - it's austerity 2.0'
The Tories are telling you to tighten your belts, while stripping the state of its assets. Fleet Street Fox has the receipts
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'The show is over for Boris Johnson, and the country is shifting, like in 1997'
People are sick of the 'great leader' style of politics and are crying out for competence over showmanship, says Paul Routledge, meaning it's finally Keir Starmer's time
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'Too many people don't feel safe on our streets after 13 years of Tory rule'
Writing exclusively for The Mirror, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says that too few crimes are investigated or solved, while serious violence has gone up and confidence in police has fallen
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Minister says she 'pities' MP who 'repeated Russian Covid conspiracy theories'
Commons leader Penny Mordaunt hit out at Andrew Bridgen, who she accused of sharing "falsehoods" originating in Russia and China about Covid
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Rishi Sunak swerves questions on tax reform after publishing vast income details
Due to capital gains being charged at a lower rate than income tax, the Tory leader paid an effective tax rate of just 22% on all his income - almost equivalent to a nurse on £36k
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'I teach sex education in schools - parents don't need to be scared of it'
Liz Robinson, CEO of Step2, raises concern about 'scaremongering' when it comes to sex education and explains why secondary schoolchildren must be taught about pornography
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Inside Boris Johnson's tetchy grilling - as his Tory defenders turn on committee
Boris Johnson was interrogated for more than three hours over his Partygate claims to the Commons - but not all of it was captured on the TV cameras. Here's what it was like to be in the room for the ex-PM's Privileges Committee evidence
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Hypocrite Tory Lee Anderson to earn £100k from TV show after MP second jobs rant
The Conservative deputy chairman, who previously slated MPs for having second jobs, will work just eight hours a week for the bumper salary, to the £84,144 he already earns as an MP
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Sunak finally publishes tax return - sneaking it out during Partygate hearing
The multi-millioniare Tory leader first pledged to publish his tax return during his failed leadership campaign against Liz Truss in the summer of 2022 - and again after becoming PM.
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Rishi Sunak wins key Brexit vote - but suffers humilating Tory rebellion
Ex Prime Minister's Liz Truss and Boris Johnson announced they would rebel over the key vote on the Stormont brake on Wednesday alongside hardline Brexiteer MPs on the Tory benches.
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Boris Johnson's stream of excuses after admitting misleading MPs over Partygate
Former PM claims he did not do it intentionally as he trotted out a list of feeble excuses for the ­rule-breaking, while throwing aides under a bus
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'Met Police must radically reform or be abolished after damning Casey report'
With public confidence plummeting after a string of horrendous scandals, Baroness Louise Casey’s report into Britain's biggest police force must not be put on a shelf to gather dust
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Boris Johnson to face Partygate showdown that could mean end of political career
The desperate ex-Prime Minister will be hauled before the Commons Privileges Committee for a four-hour showdown that could ultimately lead to him being ousted as an MP
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Tories could lose over 1,000 seats at May local elections, election experts say
Elections experts Collin Rallings and Michael Thrasher said Keir Starmer's Labour Party could scoop 700 seats if there is a swing of 6% from the Conservatives on 4 May.
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Tory suspended after saying she doesn't want 'Pride sex flags' in her town
Angela Kilmartin wrote on Facebook: "I don't want pride sex flags along my High Street. I don't even want heterosexual flags along my High Street." She was suspended by Witham Constituency Conservative Association following the comments