All news on the topic: Conservative Party

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Tactical voting could lead to 'comfortable Labour victory' in key by-election
Think tank Labour Together, which plays a key role advising Keir Starmer, said the party's vote share could turn 'a razor-thin margin into a fairly comfortable Labour victory'
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Tories need 'geography lessons' after Network North vow includes South funding
An official document on the 'Network North' scheme outlines plans for rail not only in the North and the Midlands, but also in London and in areas as far south as Devon
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18 Cabinet ministers on course to lose seats in Tory election wipeout - list
An MRP poll projects the Tories will face a wipeout at the General Election with possible Cabinet casualties including Grant Shapps, Penny Mordaunt and Gillian Keegan
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Bombshell mega-poll predicts Tories will lose three-quarters of seats in wipeout
The MRP poll that surveyed 18,000 people projects Rishi Sunak will be left with just 80 MPs, which would be the party’s worst result in history and see 18 Cabinet ministers ousted
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Former Tory Home Secretary hopes 'dangerous' Rwanda Bill is struck down by court
Former Home Secretary Ken Clarke is the latest Margaret Thatcher-era Tory grandee to hit out at the Rwanda Bill, which he told the House of Lords is 'extremely dangerous'
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Tory MP says he's put 'bulletproof clingfilm' on home amid security fears
Tory MP Jonathan Gullis said he and his colleagues shouldn't 'have to live like that' after a string of high-profile cases have seen MPs, including Tobias Ellwood, targeted
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'It's time to elect Labour and stop the painful decline of NHS dentistry'
People in agony are resorting to pulling out their own teeth with pliers or travelling 200 miles for treatment - enough is enough, we need to save NHS dentistry now
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England's top dentist admits Tories' NHS rescue plan is 'nowhere near enough'
Chief Dental Officer Jason Wong has been a major cheerleader for the Government plan but admits in private it won’t fix the national crisis accessing an NHS dentist
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Matt Hancock was chauffeured to Covid Inquiry in a Jag paid for by taxpayers
Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock was ferried to and from the Covid Inquiry in a chauffeur-driven Jaguar even though he'd resigned in disgrace two years previously
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Firm part-owned by Rishi Sunak's wife got millions in Government contracts
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty holds a £619million stake in Infosys, which saw an almost 50% increase in its public sector work last year, figures have releaved
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'Rishi Sunak has to call an election in 6 weeks - he has no other choice'
The Prime Minister cannot wait until Autumn to call a vote, says Fleet Street Fox. There'll be no-one left in Downing Street by then
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Tories face mauling in countryside as rural voters turn on them - see your area
New polling by the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) found that Sir Jacob Rees Mogg, Jeremy Hunt and Therese Coffey are among the Tory MPs at risk of losing their seats
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Water firm bosses to lose bonuses if they dump sewage as Tories nick Labour plan
Ministers have been accused of being 'shamed' into adopting Labour's plans to get tough on water companies after bosses raked in millions in bonuses despite sewage
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'I found it hard coming out, now I might become UK's most senior gay politician'
Jeremy Miles, who will become First Minister if elected leader of the Welsh Labour Party, shared how he found it difficult growing up as a child in the 1980s and later coming out
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Rishi Sunak told 'swallow some pride' and bring back Boris Johnson by top Tory
Kwasi Kwarteng, who was sacked as Chancellor by Liz Truss after the mini-Budget crashed economy, warned Rishi Sunak that 'something has to change' to prevent electoral wipeout
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Fujitsu handed £3.4billion in Treasury-linked deals despite Post Office scandal
Despite the firm’s role in the Post Office scandal, it has been handed £1.4 billion worth of deals since the High Court ruled there had been bugs and errors in its Horizon software.
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Tory-run areas more likely to get new schools than Labour ones amid RAAC crisis
Nearly three quarters -72% - of new-build schools due to open by 2030 are in the constituencies of Tory MPs while sites in Labour seats are left to crumble
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Tories quietly change zombie knife ban jail time commitment to 'may face prison'
The Home Office said the policy hadn’t been changed, and that the original release was wrong and was corrected
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Olympic champ Becky Adlington's fury as two swimming pools close every month
Swimming chief estimate that 75% of councils face a swimming pool shortage by 2030 - with almost one in three children already leaving primary school unable to swim a length
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'Labour and business is odd combo - like vodka and tomato or Crouch and Clancy'
When you see Labour going down well with the City, austerity hero George Osborne praising them, it’s a slightly unsettling feeling. Turns out it’s not just me. It used to be you had to wait ages to see how policy was playing out. Now you can get reaction pretty quickly
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Angela Rayner to pledge 'partnership' funding for councils to fix Tory crisis
In a speech to the Labour Local Government Conference in Warwick, the Deputy Labour Leader will say the “biggest obstacle to resolving the crisis” in local government is the Conservative Party
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Just like Margaret Thatcher, miners' wives were not for turning
When miners started being arrested on demos during 1984, their wives joined them and spoke of the cause around the country.
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Paddy McGuinness backs Mirror campaign to save NHS dentistry
Paddy McGuinness has backed the Mirror's campaign with The BDA to save NHS dentistry following the Top Gear presenter's well-received appearance on Question Time
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Barrister removed from BA plane by armed cops after row is given peerage by PM
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak slipped out the list of new peers on Friday evening that also includes a council leader who bragged about trying to kill moles with a blowtorch
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Tories face questions over crime chief's 'short skirts' comment in abuse debate
Police and Crime Commissioner John Dwyer has offered a 'full and unreserved apology' after being reported to the local Police and Crime Panel for 'misogynistic remarks'