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Tory centrists should back Kemi Badenoch and not boycott leadership vote, urges party grandee

Exclusive: After Tory moderates threatened to boycott the leadership election, Damian Green – former chair of the One Nation caucus of Conservative MPs – has urged them to back Kemi Badenoch instead

The Independent UK

The Tories need a clear ideology – Farage and the hard right offer only moral and electoral ruin

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

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s like Where’s Wally in broken Britain’: Ben Jennings on his Tory-era take on A Rake’s Progress

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

The Guardian - UK

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Uncool Britannia? How Britain might feel with the court of Sir Keir

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’

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The novel of the summer has reminded me: where did the politics of hope go?

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…

Evening Standard

Farewell, Michael Gove: from Brexit to levelling up, you sowed the seeds for this Conservative crisis

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

The Guardian - UK

Braverman tells Sunak to ‘own’ dismal election results and ‘fix it’ but says it’s too late for Tories to change leader – as it happened

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

The Guardian - UK

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Conservatism’s biggest failure is the despair it has created about Britain’s future

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

The Guardian - UK

Anderson and Braverman shout loudest, but one man has led the toxification of the Tories: Michael Gove

As an influential constant in government, Gove has been key to the process of rightwing radicalisation, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Thatcher was right: Tory moderates have no power over the party’s ruthless rightwing extremists

The civilising influence of the ‘wets’ is a myth. The party’s angriest elements always end up back in the driving seat, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Thatcherite conservatism is on its last legs. I’ve had a disturbing glimpse of what might replace it

The global political right is flailing. If it is to reinvent itself, it will need a fresher vision than that espoused by Peter Thiel, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Conservative conference: an exercise in diverting blame for failure

Editorial: Without a candid audit of what has gone wrong, Rishi Sunak will struggle to develop a meaningful programme for the future

The Guardian - UK

Junking green policies, junking investment: scorched-earth Conservatism is all Sunak offers now

The cavalier way in which the latest U-turn has been presented reveals a government and a PM scrabbling for survival, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Nadine Dorries’s resignation: raggle-taggle Tories

Editorial: The former MP was out of step with Rishi Sunak, but she is not the only Conservative who thinks the party has lost its way

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Evening Standard

Tories face ‘tough battle’ after Nadine Dorries quits with No10 blast

In her resignation letter, Nadine Dorries said Rishi Sunak had abandoned ‘the fundamental principles of Conservatism’

The Independent UK

Nadine Dorries: Staunch Johnson loyalist who took on the jungle

In her letter on Saturday afternoon, Dorries accused Rishi Sunak of abandoning “the fundamental principles of Conservatism”.

The Guardian - UK

Even Britain’s free market bible has turned on the Tories. Do they have any friends left?

The Economist speaks to capitalism’s international elite. Its criticism of the party’s 13-year rule reflects a contempt that is now global, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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I watched Cameron and Osborne at the Covid inquiry. They are still in denial about the damage they inflicted on Britain

No matter how they squirm, the link between austerity and Britain’s pandemic outcomes is undeniable, writes Andy Beckett

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So long as we treat Boris Johnson as a lone wolf, the other Tory beasts will roam free

Arguing that the former leader’s premiership was a one-off won’t prevent another calamitous Tory government, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Week

National conservatism: the beliefs underpinning the first UK ‘NatCon’ conference

The first UK National Conservatism Conference was briefly disrupted this morning as a protester acting on behalf of Extinction Rebellion took to the stage during a speech by Jacob Rees-Mogg.

The Independent UK

Thatcher-era chancellor Nigel Lawson dies at age of 91

MPs pay tribute to ‘a fearless and original flame of free-market Conservatism’

Evening Standard

OPINION - Rishi Sunak is playing a cunning — and morally dubious — double game

Tomorrow, as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivers his first Budget speech, he will be faced across the Despatch Box by Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves. Yet his true opponents will be the ghosts of Conservatism’s recent past: Boris Johnson and the ethical crash that ended his shambolic premiership;…

The Guardian - UK

Ludicrous ideas, perpetual scandal: the Conservatives are in absolute freefall

The force that once thought itself the natural party of government has become a cult of bitterness and denial, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

A lesson for Sunak: when the Tories take on striking workers, they don’t always win

The prime minister is pitting the public against trade unionists — forgetting that, in millions of cases, they are the same people, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Evening Standard

Why don’t the Tories care any more about young would-be homeowners?

Society, wrote Edmund Burke in Reflections on the Revolution in France, “is a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.” This was one of the founding principles of modern Conservatism — but…

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