The Latest Breaking News from David Cameron

Today is the day the four remaining candidates for Conservative party leader will be hoping for their David Cameron moment. Nearly two decades ago, the fresh-faced MP for Witney delivered a speech to the party faithful without notes. And in doing so, thrust himself into the leadership and, ultimately, Downing…

Each behaves as if they are vying to be PM when the reality is years in opposition, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

There will be ‘meet our candidates’ Q&As, and fringe events – but limited self-reflection at the gathering in Birmingham

Advisers to prime ministers are often targets of sniping but being in news is not sustainable for Starmer’s chief of staff

She was Britain’s first Muslim cabinet minister – and has faced questions for years about why she was in the Conservative party. Yesterday, she resigned the whip. She explains why

Former co-chair criticises party’s ‘hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities’.

Baroness Warsi has quit the Conservatives on the eve of their conference in Birmingham

In the day job, I’ve tried to get the measure of most party leaders and prime ministers since the Eighties. There was one so dull that I nodded off in an upright position over lunch. Mostly I’ve had an idea of what makes them tick: Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher…

The chancellor stared down her critics at her first conference speech in power – but do they have a point?