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Having refused to learn from Rishi Sunak’s mistakes, the new Conservative leader looks set to repeat a lot of them

The new Conservative party leader is less than two months into the job, yet reviews are already mixed

As the Tories face another divisive leadership contest, violence across the country puts it in a troubling context, writes Guardian columnist John Harris

A millennial navigates the gig economy, fights in pubs and gets kettled on a demo in Snowflake’s Progress, the Guardian’s political cartoonist’s Hogarthian epitaph for the last 14 years of Conservative rule

Past big Labour wins have caused seismic cultural shifts but the unflashy stance of our new leader is described as ‘less Camelot – more Center Parcs’

Fourteen years ago, when David Cameron defeated Gordon Brown to usher in the new British age of chaotic, wayward Conservatism, I was still in my thirties. Watching first a sequence of divisions sewn into the country, on issues of genuine political consequence, then the factious, petty culture wars that nagged…

The Tory puppet master is leaving behind a febrile party flying ever further towards the fringes of our politics, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Former home secretary says Tory voters are ‘on strike’ and are ‘not coming out to support us’ in wake of dire local and mayoral election results

Fantasies about British exceptionalism have brought the UK to the brink of collapse. We need a new, realistic vision, says author and journalist Will Hutton