All news on the topic: Conservative Party

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Self-employed Brits caught by Universal Credit trap - as numbers double in year
The number of self-employed households receiving Universal Credit who are subject to the ‘Minimum Income Floor’ (MIF) – which cuts their benefit payments – more than doubled in a year to February 2023
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Tory millionaire says he's 'haunted' by having to pay tax on wealth when he dies
Mega-rich Nadhim Zahawi, who was sacked as Conservative Party chairman over his own tax dealings, is leading a group of MPs who are demanding Rishi Sunak helps the rich by axing inheritance tax
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Failing asylum system now costs four times more than when Tories came to power
Latest data shows that the UK spends £2.1 billion a year, up from £550 million when the Conservatives came to power in 2010 - and it's expected to go up again in 2023
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Personal trainer unmasks himself as man behind brutal Secret Tory parody account
Henry Morris said he set up the Secret Tory - which has nearly 200,000 followers - when he was bored in the gym, quipping that the Conservative brand has become "toxic"
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Keir Starmer says there's 'no point' in pretending everything's fine over Brexit
Labour has gone on the attack over Tory handling of Brexit, with Keir Starmer accusing the Government of "ducking hard conversations" and saying that competitors are "nicking our lunch money"
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Letters: 'Raising interest rates just helps the banks - not the ordinary person'
Mirror reader Shirley Broadbent is worried about the state of our economy - do you share her concerns?
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Tory Covid 'cover-up' as MPs insist they 'no longer have' Boris WhatsApps
Grieving relatives of those killed by the virus demanded his WhatsApp texts and notebooks be handed over amid accusations of a bid to obstruct progress
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'Love Island's lessons in respect - basically misogyny for beginners'
Columnist Polly Hudson on the news that the new batch of Love Islanders will be schooled on mutually respectful relationships, and controlling and coercive behaviour, in advance of their time on the show, and that it couldn't happen soon enough
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Tories 'murdered' manufacturing, says union leader amid fury at missing plan
MPs and unions today blasted the lack of an industrial strategy from the Government as fears grow about the impact on a series of firms and the wider economy
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Criminals 'let off the hook' as 30,000 muggings went unsolved last year
Every day last year more than 80 cases of robbery of personal items were closed without a suspect being identified, an analysis by the Lib Dems has revealed
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'Keir Starmer should put free school meals for all pupils in Labour's manifesto'
Sharon Hodgson, an MP in North East England, recalls the stigma of queueing for free dinners. But this is about more than ending any stigma for the one-in-five who receive them
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'Chancellor looks relaxed as higher interest rates push Britain into recession'
Kevin Maguire writes that Jeremy Hunt is relaxed about plunging Britain into recession - no wonder Labour and Keir Starmer are enjoying healthy double-digit poll leads
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Desperate Sunak plans supermarket price cap on basic foods like bread and milk
No10 is planning to make a deal with supermarkets as it becomes increasingly worried the cost-of-living crisis gripping Britain could derail the Tories’ slim hopes of winning the next general election
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'This explosion of infighting will only get nastier as the Tories collapse'
For a long time, Labour’s strategy has been to sit back and watch it happen. I’m not a fan of this but it is increasingly hard to argue with
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'Suella Braverman missed a valuable lesson by swerving speed awareness course'
Rachael Bletchly says sitting through a public speed awareness course may have made Home Secretary Suella Braverman a more thoughtful politician as well as a safer drive
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Campaigners' fury at 'delay' to LGBT veterans report that's 'shame upon the UK'
After a Sunday Mirror campaign, ministers ordered a review of the hardship suffered by veterans during and after their service as a result of the cruel ban
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Top Tory's cringe flip-flop stunt branded 'lamest joke since Liz Truss'
The £16.99 flip-flops, bearing Keir Starmer's face, are significantly cheaper than the £95 designer sliders favoured by Rishi Sunak
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'A crop of Tories so far gone they’re as bad as the fruit they left to rot'
Columnist Brian Reade reflects on the last 13 years of Tory rule, and says that while there were shameful decisions made by the Labour party pre-2010, nothing compares to this cabinet with no talent
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Brexit HAS failed say thousands of Mirror readers in new poll
'Sold on Conservative's lies, it was so obviously going to be a disaster ...' you have your say about the UK's controversial withdrawal from the EU
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Waffling Tory leaves ex-Dragon's Den star with head in hands on Question Time
Tory minister Laura Trott tried to heap blame onto Labour when grilled on Question Time about her own Government's broken promises on slashing net migration figures
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6 bits of bad news slipped out by the Tories as MPs go on half-term break
On the final day of Parliament before recess - dubbed ‘Take Out the Trash Day’ - the Government rushed out a flurry of announcements. Here's what you might have missed...
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'Government reliant on overseas labour because it failed to invest in training'
The latest figures show the Conservatives have lost control of the immigration system - and despite Tory promises to cut the number coming here, net migration has reached a record high
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Rishi Sunak is accused of having 'no grip' on immigration amid record levels
Labour’s blast came as official figures showed 606,000 more people came to the UK than left last year, despite Conservative pledges to slash numbers
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PM spends £260,000 of taxpayer cash on bash to woo business after economic chaos
Labour accused the Conservatives of using money from the public purse to 'paper over the cracks of their 13 years of economic failure with meaningless photo opportunities'
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Tories told 'come clean' after admitting delays to 8 hospitals pledged by 2030
Health Secretary Steve Barclay admitted that some of the original facilities will not be completed by the end of the decade as focus is shifting to five hospitals deemed 'not safe to operate beyond 2030'