Rishi Sunak’s mask has slipped – if ever he wore one
He wasn’t supposed to say what he really thought of “levelling up” out loud.
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Liz Truss is gaining momentum in the Tory leadership race
The Defence Secretary has endorsed Truss’s campaign in a major coup – but Rishi Sunak could fight back this weekend…
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The murky case of the tax expert, the Chancellor and his lawyers
The lawyer Dan Neidle reflects on how Nadhim Zahawi’s solicitors sought to shut down his inquiries.
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Tory leadership debate: Rishi Sunak fails to achieve breakthrough against Liz Truss
Tonight’s exchanges leave the tax-cutting Foreign Secretary as the clear front-runner to become prime minister.
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The next Conservative prime minister is already destined for failure
Both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss offer only fantastical promises and scattershot ideas.
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Rishi Sunak is already running out of time to save his campaign
The former chancellor has little time to overturn Liz Truss’s 24-point lead before Tory members begin voting next week.
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Rishi vs Liz is the excruciating summer spectacle we’ve all been waiting for
Is there anything more humiliating than a Tory leadership contest?
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Labour has no reason to fear Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss
Whoever becomes prime minister takes over at a moment of maximum difficulty and will struggle to win an election.
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Thatcherism vs Reaganomics
The fiscally conservative Rishi Sunak is borrowing from Margaret Thatcher while the tax-cutting Liz Truss channels Ronald Reagan.
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Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak begin their summer of hustings
The Foreign Secretary highlights her loyalty to Boris Johnson, while Sunak calls Truss’s fiscal vision “fantasy economics”.
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Rishi Sunak will face two opponents in the Tory leadership contest: Liz Truss and Boris Johnson
The Prime Minister and his allies will use the Tory leadership contest to cast the former chancellor as a traitor.
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Tory leadership candidates – don’t go back on levelling up
The next prime minister should go big on the inequality Britain cares about most.
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How the Tories lost their way
The new leader will struggle to regain control of a party still in the grip of Boris Johnson’s illiberal populism.
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As the Tory leadership candidates obsess over tax cuts, the real monsters are tapping at the window
The climate emergency can no longer be dismissed by politicians – even if some voters don’t regard it as a…
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Kemi Badenoch was the anti-groupthink candidate the Tories didn’t know they needed
It takes guts to defy your in-group, and Badenoch has done so again and again.
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As Liz Truss surges, who is Labour’s dream Tory opponent?
Opinion in Keir Starmer’s party is divided on the weakest possible Conservative leader.
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Kemi Badenoch is the Tories’ hottest property
The darling of the right’s support will be crucial in the race to become the next Prime Minister.
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The post-Johnson era is already a nightmare
Boris Johnson’s Trumpian remarks on the “deep state” will almost certainly have a destructive effect on British democracy.
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Rishi Sunak surges ahead in Tory leadership election as Liz Truss struggles
The Foreign Secretary gained just seven votes despite the endorsement of high-profile Brexiteers.
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Penny Mordaunt’s firm lobbied for anti-abortion evangelical group
Media Intelligence Partners worked with the Christian Medical Fellowship, which opposed terminations even in cases of rape.
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