All news on the topic: Conservative Party

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Tory candidate posted on Facebook about 'stoning' refugees who cross the Channel
The Conservative Party is refusing to say whether it will take any disciplinary action against Stuart Peach. He is standing to become a councillor in Ashfield where Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson is the MP
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'Suella Braverman is injecting poison into politics and inflaming racism'
Suella Braverman was reportedly branded a "real racist bigot" by an ex-minister from Boris Johnson’s government and Kevin Maguire feels she is "chronically incompetent"
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'Law is failing to protect children as shops are illegally selling vapes'
A 13-year-old girl was able to buy vapes with five times the permitted level of addictive nicotine in a Daily Mirror investigation
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Tories ditch bid to stop Black mums dying in childbirth despite worrying figures
The Maternity Disparities Taskforce was supposed to meet every two months to lead efforts on reducing the number of deaths among women from ethic minority communities and poorer areas, but it has not met since last July
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Cancer and A&E nurses will join 'super-strike' as Tories refuse to budge on pay
The Royal College of Nursing will hold a round-the-clock 48-hour strike from 8pm on Sunday, April 30 to 8pm on Tuesday, May 2, including the Bank Holiday Monday
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Nurses could strike until Christmas as dispute over NHS pay escalates
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Pat Cullen said members would be balloted on a fresh wave of industrial action after rejecting the latest pay offer from the Government
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Buses on the brink as 1,100 routes axed in 2022 despite Tory promises
An analysis of official figures by the Liberal Democrats showed bus routes had been slashed by 7.5% nationwide in 2022 compared to the previous year
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Tories on course to lose 1,000 seats at local elections, claims party chairman
Cabinet Minister Greg Hands made the startling admission three weeks before voters go to the polls in ballots widely expected to give the Conservatives a kicking
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Labour vow to end GP 'postcode lottery' and promise 15,000 new doctors a year
New analysis reveals three quarters of patients in some parts of England are unable to see the doctor of their choice - with only 50% held face to face in some areas
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'Coronation invite for nurses and social care staff should not be empty gesture'
Professor Nola Ishmael OBE said the Coronation invite is a contradiction as on the one hand, nurses and doctors are highly regarded and valued, but on the other they have been ­disregarded financially
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Anti-gay rights Tory and fellow minister enjoyed freebies at Qatar World Cup
Welsh Secretary David Davis - who has been accused of holding 'abhorrent' anti-gay views - stayed for free at a swanky hotel in Doha, along with Sports Minister Stuart Andrew, during last year's controversial World Cup
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Serial perverts 'back on streets with slap on wrist' as justice system 'broken'
The murder of Sarah Everard, 33, in 2021, by Met Police officer Wayne Couzens led to renewed calls to tackle supposedly lower-level sex offences. Couzens had previously indecently exposed himself
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Most voters want general election before next autumn - and 25% want it now
But an exclusive poll by TechneUK for the Sunday Mirror found only 28% of voters thought there should be an election in Autumn 2024 or later - as Rishi Sunak is reportedly planning
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Angela Rayner defends Labour's 'hard-hitting' ads - and will 'keep attacking PM'
“It's no-nonsense, and that's what people want to see. They don't want flannel and fluff," the deputy Labour leader said. “It's hard-hitting and it's no nonsense, and it's factual. It's the statistics that are shocking”
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'Disastrous PM Liz Truss blames everyone but herself for being booted out'
Keir Mudie says that while giving a 'nothing speech' to some Conservative think-tank, former Prime Minister Liz Truss showed how Tories blame the ills of the world on everyone but themselves
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Tory booted for suggesting alleged rape victim was a sex worker is to appeal
Underneath a Twitter post of an online media report headlined “Woman raped in Plumstead park in early hours” - and which included a police comment - he wrote: “More likely that it's a punter that didn't pay”
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Bungling Tories make surprise admission in election leaflets being posted out
Conservative candidates standing in next month's local elections have been delivering leaflets boasting that they have taken their areas 'from debt free to debt ridden'
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Seven bins per house recycling plan put on hold as Tories fear election backlash
Ministers had drawn up plans to make people separate rubbish into seven bins - one each for food, garden waste, glass, paper and card, metal, plastic, and general waste
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Tories' £140m Rwanda deal has seen no one sent there - a year after announced
Priti Patel boasted it would be 'biggest overhaul of our immigration system in decades' - but 12 months later Labour's Yvette Cooper has dismissed it as a 'Tory con'
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'Tory acts of sabotage against our democratic system will deny millions a voice'
Instead of protecting the right to vote, the Conservatives have gone out of their way to undermine it
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Tory councillor finally suspended after saying 'white men need black slaves'
A Tory politician who allegedly claimed 'all white men should have a black slave' in a leaked voice recording has been suspended from his party as an investigation continues
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Recording emerges of Tory's racist rant about black people that has sparked fury
Pembrokeshire county councillor Andrew Edwards has been accused of saying 'all white men should have a black man as a slave' as a shocking recording emerged of the vile rant
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People who let out homes to holidaymakers could need planning permission soon
The Government is weighing up the move amid fears people are being pushed out of tourist hotspots by people using their homes on sites such as Airbnb
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Tories believe Channel crossings will increase despite 'stop the boats' promise
Ministers are under pressure to clamp down on people-smuggling gangs as record numbers of migrants are expected to risk their lives making perilous journeys in small boats
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Average earner needs to work 400 years to benefit from Hunt's pension tax bung
The Chancellor announced a number of pension tax cuts that are set to benefit the top 1% of the population and a new study has found it would take the average worker around four centuries to achieve the same