From the archive: Yesterday’s Young Conservatives
October 1977: Martin Amis reports from the Conservative Party Conference
ByConservative Party Conferences
GB News will never love Kemi Badenoch
The channel’s viewers are her lost voters
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Robert Jenrick declares war on the judiciary
The shadow justice secretary wants the power to appoint judges
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The Tory conference vibe: sad, empty and haunted by Margaret Thatcher
Attendees are free to worship at the Thatcher cargo-cult
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The danger for the Tories is simple irrelevance
The party is trapped in a pincer movement between Reform and the Lib Dems with no clear route out
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Kemi Badenoch pitches the Tories as the Lib Dems of the right
The Tory leader made swipes left and right in her conference speech
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Kemi Badenoch rages against the dying of the right
The Tories head to Manchester, dejected and rudderless
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The Tories are in a different world to voters
There are whole swathes of the electorate to whom the party seems to offer almost nothing.
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Could the Tories win the next election?
Labour’s woes present opportunities for the next Conservative leader.
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The Tories are still in denial
Voters want economic interventionism, not reheated Thatcherism.
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Westminster parties engulfed by a cost-of-conference crisis
Your weekly dose of gossip from the corridors of power.
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The Tories needed to win conference season – but they lost it
For the first time since 1996, this looked like a Labour opposition destined for election victory.
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Keir Starmer’s speech made the Tories look like the opposition
The hopes that Rishi Sunak’s allies had for conference season have been wholly disappointed.
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Is Suella Braverman the future of the Conservative Party?
The Home Secretary’s conference speech was well received in Manchester.
On net zero, the Conservatives are increasingly estranged from business
At the Tories’ annual party conference, industry seemed more supportive of the green transition than senior politicians.
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The Conservative conference can’t take its eyes off Farage
Your dose of gossip from the Manchester Central Convention Complex.
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Rishi Sunak shows why he can’t be a “change candidate”
The Prime Minister spoke for himself rather than for voters.
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The new Conservative Party is being born
Tory conference is not a wake, as many claim. It is a christening.
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Andrew Boff’s removal is a symbol of the Tories’ self-destruction
The London Assembly chair is exactly the sort of liberal, urban voter the Conservative Party has not just lost, but…
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The Conservatives are bringing the culture war to the NHS
The Health Secretary’s conference speech focused on trans issues and union relations rather than waiting lists and staff shortages.
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