Tory party

The Liz Truss survival plan

22 October 2022 9:00 am

At the first stage of the Conservative leadership race, when Liz Truss was trying to win MPs’ support, her message…

Has a Conservative government got any power at all?

22 October 2022 9:00 am

In the House of Commons on Monday, someone accused Liz Truss’s government of being ‘in office but not in power’.…

Nobody wanted Liz Truss

22 October 2022 9:00 am

One of the most important ingredients in the oil used to anoint King Charles during his coronation is becoming a…

Divided they fall: can the Tories save themselves?

22 October 2022 9:00 am

Seldom has support for a government fallen so far, so fast. Polls show that 24 per cent of the public…

Why Liz Truss had to go

21 October 2022 1:49 am

The Liz Truss survival plan was, in the end, unworkable. She not only hired her enemies – Grant Shapps and Jeremy…

How long can Liz Truss hold on?

17 October 2022 1:38 am

How much trouble is Liz Truss in? Just six weeks into her premiership, the Prime Minister’s economic plans are in…

Five ways the Liz Truss saga could end

15 October 2022 4:10 am

How does this end? That’s the question being asked by Tory MPs as Liz Truss’s government finds itself in turmoil…

‘She’s just so bad at everything’: Tory MPs turn on Truss

15 October 2022 2:02 am

Liz Truss’s Downing Street press conference has made everything worse, as far as Tory MPs are concerned. As soon as…

Crash course: how the Truss revolution came off the road

8 October 2022 9:00 am

Where does the Truss revolution go from here?

Could it be Rishi by Christmas?

8 October 2022 9:00 am

What was supposed to be a recovery moment for the Conservatives instead looks like a collective nervous breakdown. The Prime…

Portrait of the week: Tory party conference, gas supply warning and Denmark’s royals stripped of titles

8 October 2022 9:00 am

Home Liz Truss, the Prime Minister, came up with a message for the Conservative party conference: ‘Whenever there is change,…

Give Liz Truss a chance

8 October 2022 9:00 am

Conservative governments have a habit of self-destructing: they die not in battle with political enemies but as a result of…

What does Michael Gove want?

4 October 2022 7:22 am

Tory conference has long been more stage-managed than other party meetings, but this year the official speeches from ministers have…

Boris Johnson was a terrible strongman

6 September 2022 11:32 pm

The ejection of Boris Johnson from Downing Street today proves that the UK has not gone the way of Donald…

The problems of mid-term PMs

6 September 2022 1:18 am

Any Prime Minister who takes over mid-term has to contend with a certain set of problems. Liz Truss will wish…

The Conservative party is a void

24 August 2022 3:00 pm

Like the winter of discontent, the summer of 2022 is a season that will burn itself into the national consciousness.…

State-building is a Tory tradition. It’s time to rediscover it

13 August 2022 9:00 am

It’s time for some old-fashioned Tory state-building

Why Liz Truss shouldn’t be PM

30 July 2022 9:00 am

Two and a half years ago I joined the Tory party to vote for Boris, then unjoined as soon as…

Which country has hosted Eurovision the most?

30 July 2022 9:00 am

The longest heatwave How did the recent heatwave compare with that of 1976? That year, the temperature peaked at 35.9˚C…

The Tories abandon fiscal conservatism at their peril

21 July 2022 3:49 am

And then there were two. Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss now go to the membership. There’s much talk today about how…

The Conservative party has ceased to be serious

20 July 2022 3:08 am

I’m not sure that the Conservative party wants to win elections. Tom Tugendhat was knocked out of the leadership contest…

The latest Tory leadership debate was a grim spectacle

18 July 2022 3:00 pm

The eyes had it, in last night’s leadership debate. Penny Mordaunt and Rishi Sunak took turns directing to the camera…

Labour won the Tory leadership debate

18 July 2022 6:15 am

That was quite a debate.I’ve never seen senior Tory ministers and MPs lay into each other so publicly. Rishi Sunak…

Sunday shows round-up: Penny under the spotlight

17 July 2022 8:49 pm

Penny Mordaunt – I’m being smeared over self-ID claims No Conservative party leadership race is ever without drama. With the…