All news on the topic: Conservative Party

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'Only in Tory UK could poorest households struggle with highest energy bills'
Instead of showing any understanding, the energy companies are forcing more and more people on to meters, and obtaining warrants so they can enter homes to fit the devices
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Anger in 'forgotten town' beset by crime after Tory 'Levelling Up' snub
Levelling Up plans in South Shields turned to dust and local MP Emma Lewell-Buck was naturally incensed, telling voters: “Freeports bid – rejected; towns fund bid – rejected; two levelling up bids – rejected. Levelling up is just an empty slogan"
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'The NHS strikes are a calamity - not just a bad day in Downing Street'
Ministers' refusal to engage in talks with unions will result in deaths, and proves they don't have our interests at heart, says Paul Routledge
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Putin aide in security scare after helicopter makes emergency landing in Iran
Igor Levitin had been on a "secret" visit to Iran as Russia tries to speed up deliveries of missiles and military drones for use in Ukraine. He made an emergency landing due to 'security issues'
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'Bad taste' Tory MP blasted for using own staff to back up food bank claim
Lee Anderson, who has previously claimed people can cook meals from scratch for 30p, posted a picture of one of his staff members, claiming she earns less than £30,000 but can afford to live in central London and go on foreign holidays
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Will you be reading Boris Johnson's memoir?
Touted as a 'prime ministerial memoir like no other', the book is expected to rake in at least six figures for the former PM
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Rishi Sunak takes taxpayer-funded private jet on jaunt around Tory target seats
The luxury RAF plane took a 41 minute flight from London to Blackpool, then on a 28 minute trip over to Darlington - as the PM visited key seats the Tories desperately need to hold onto in the next election
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'Clarke's insulting nurses comments prove Tories don't value NHS and its staff'
Today Simon Clarke, who served as a Cabinet Minister when Liz Truss was Prime Minister, had the gall to tell nurses relying on foodbanks they needed to 'budget better and take responsibility'
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Rishi Sunak gives his own wealthy constituency £19m to 'level-up'
The Prime Minister announced the cash to regenerate the town centre in Catterick six months after footage emerged of him boasting about diverting levelling-up funds from deprived, urban areas
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Rich Tory MP accuses nurses using foodbanks of 'not budgeting properly'
Tory Simon Clarke accused NHS workers of not managing their shrinking personal budgets properly. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, who earns £84,000 a year as an MP, sparked fury with his comments
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Labour calls for probe into Boris Johnson's £800k 'credit facility'
Party chairwoman Anneliese Dodds has written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards calling for an urgent investigation into revelations of the arrangement between the then Prime Minister and a distant cousin
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Tory Transport Minister admits cost of rail strikes more than settling dispute
The RMT union General Secretary Mick Lynch said the comments from Huw Merriman were evidence of the Government treating businesses in the pre-Christmas period as 'collateral damage'
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UN agency rejects Tory ministers' claims it backs 'draconian' anti-strike laws
The PM Rishi Sunak and the Business Secretary Grant Shapps have both highlighted the International Labour Organisation when defending proposals to impose 'minimum service levels' during industrial action
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Top Tory George Eustice says he will stand down at next general election
The former Environment Secretary joins a growing number of Tories choosing to stand down amid fears Conservative MPs will lose their seats due to growing Labour support in the polls
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'Out of touch' Tory MP says nurses using food banks should 'budget better'
The comment was made by former levelling up secretary and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke as thousands of nurses walk out in a bitter dispute over pay and conditions
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Toy maker stuck with 500 Liz Truss dolls as PM resigns before he can sell them
David Farquharson ordered 500 dog toys in the image of Liz Truss when she was voted into Downing Street but received the order the day after she quit as Prime Minister
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'Jenga' lectern used by Liz Truss during 49 days as PM cost taxpayers £4,000
Downing Street has revealed that £4,175 of public money was spent on the higgledy-piggledy lectern that was specially made for Liz Truss, before she was forced to quit
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Rishi Sunak U-turn tracker - all the Prime Minister's screeching changes
The Prime Minister has only had a brief stint in Downing Street so far but he has already U-turned on major pledges made during the Tory leadership campaign
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'Those paid to uphold law must find foolproof system to not recruite villains'
Carrick joins Wayne Couzens, the Met officer who kidnapped, raped and then murdered Sarah Everard as she walked home in London, as one of the worst criminals in the history of the force
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Rishi Sunak faces 'sacking of nurses bill' fury at 'insulting' anti-strike plan
Labour's Deputy Leader Angela Rayner branded the Government's controversial Strikes (Minimum Services) Bill 'irrational and so insulting' as protesters gathered outside Downing Street during a tense debate
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'Wealthy Boris Johnson living rent-free in a £20m mansion is just plain greedy'
Mirror reader Bill Cook pulls no punches when it comes to the behaviour of our former Prime Minister. What do YOU think?
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'Senior Labour figures right to be haunted by fear of Conservative resurrection'
The economy crash, the NHS crisis, Covid and the invasion of Ukraine don’t explain why we’re doing worse than similar nations, so Rishi Sunak will struggle to escape the grave
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Ex-Tory MP caught watching explicit video says he might stand at next election
Neil Parish resigned after other MPs spotted him watching explicit videos but says he has 'unfinished business' and would still consider running in the next election
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Millionaire Tory Nadhim Zahawi to 'pay millions in tax to settle HMRC dispute'
Labour say the multi-millionaire former Chancellor - who is chairman of the Tory party - has ‘questions to answer’ over the way his family’s trust held shares in the polling firm he founded
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Boris Johnson had 'up to £800k credit' to fund lavish life 'with cousin's help'
New claims have emerged about the big spender ex-PM's unusual financial arrangements - despite his £159,000 salary and earnings of more than £1million since he left