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OPINION - Who will be the next Tory leader? It's best to start with the F word...

“Stop messing around” was Kemi Badenoch’s forthright advice to desperate Tory backbenchers, flirting with a Hail Mary leader switch before the election. The ex-defence secretary, Ben Wallace, who speaks as if addressing a slightly dim Army platoon, put the same thought just more pessimistically, as he urged colleagues to set…

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Ben Wallace tells Tory rebels it is ‘too late’ to replace Rishi Sunak before the election

The former Defence Secretary told the Tories to ‘get on with it’

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Sunak and Badenoch put on united front in face of high-level fawning

With continuing talk of a leadership challenge, PM and business secretary have little to say at stage-managed praise-filled event

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OPINION - Rishi Sunak is safe – so long as Tory plotters cannot agree on a unity candidate

Should Australia drop Mitchell Starc? It doesn't matter whether you hold strong views on the fast bowler's inability to take wickets with the old ball, or whether you've never heard of the bloke. The real question is this: would his replacement be better or worse?

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Rishi Sunak hints the Tories would accept another £5 million from racism storm donor Frank Hester

The PM’s delay in branding the donor’s outburst as racist has added to disquiet among some Tory MPs over his leadership

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It’s too late to replace Sunak so Tories must ‘march towards the sound of the guns’, Ben Wallace says – as it happened

Former defence secretary tells colleagues there is no alternative to Rishi Sunak and to ‘get on with’ preparing for an election

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Only ‘one or two’ Tory MPs plotting against Sunak, says Badenoch

Business secretary dismisses reports of plot and rejects calls for her party to return donations from Frank Hester

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Frank Hester racism row: how key figures reacted to remarks about Diane Abbott

Tory donor has been widely condemned over racist and misogynistic comments about prominent black MP

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Black Britons fear for Diane Abbott after a millionaire’s call for violence

A top Tory donor said the veteran politician, affectionately called ‘Auntie Di’ by her supporters, should be shot.

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UK embarks on post-Brexit trade talks with Turkey

Talks offer ‘huge opportunities’ but come at a delicate time after Ankara held up Sweden’s accession to Nato

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From ‘move on’ to ‘racist and wrong’: how the Tory line on Frank Hester shifted

An incoherent response to the donor’s remarks has raised questions about Rishi Sunak’s political nous

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Tory donor’s comments about Diane Abbott ‘racist and wrong’, No 10 says

Statement from Downing Street follows cross-party criticism of Frank Hester’s remarks about former Labour MP

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OPINION - Stonewall has a terrible grip on British public life

Quite how needful it was for equalities minister Kemi Badenoch to tell public bodies to pull the plug on their connection with Stonewall, the pernicious, ubiquitous campaigning group, can be seen in its latest accounts.

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Brexit: Minister hails closer ties with Texas but no free trade deal with US or India

‘This Conservative government’s cowboy trade policy is shooting the British public in the foot,’ says Lib-Dem Sarah Olney as ministers boast of better links with Texas but no post-Brexit free trade deal with America

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Michelle Donelan case highlights perils for politicians who pick fights online

Some of the Tories’ ‘anti-woke warriors’ seem unaware that protection of speech in parliament does not extend to social media

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UK politics: Sunak refuses to say how abolition of national insurance would be funded – as it happened

PM says ‘people trust me on these things’ and refuses to be drawn on whether government would forgo entire £46bn raised from measure

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It’s Kemi Badenoch v the Post Office, the show where ministers sweep everything under the carpet

Whatever the truth in the latest ‘he said, she said’ row, one thing’s clear: the government has no intention of tackling this institutional rot, says barrister Sam Fowles

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UK negotiators fly to India in last-ditch effort to seal free-trade deal

Exclusive: Team will try to resolve goods and services issues amid fears Delhi is holding out for a Labour government

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Former Post Office chair claims he is victim of ‘smear campaign’ led by Kemi Badenoch

Henry Staunton stands by his allegations against the government and turns on Post Office CEO in dramatic day of evidence to MPs

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Tory MPs have Badenoch’s back as they slog it out with former Post Office chair

Henry Staunton refuses to back down as he gives evidence to the business select committee

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What is Islamophobia and why does Tory government not accept definition?

Why are senior politicians unwilling to label Lee Anderson’s comments on Sadiq Khan Islamophobic? We look at why the definition is disputed

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Tuesday briefing: Behind the Conservative party’s failure to address Islamophobia

In today’s newsletter: As suspended backbencher Lee Anderson launches a fresh attack, a former Tory MEP explains how the party got here

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Twenty-five years after the Lawrence inquiry, Britain has regressed on race and politicians have made it worse

After all the fine words, issues of racial equality were ducked and the rightwing backlash found friends in government, says author and academic Nicola Rollock

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Post Office said last month it stands by most Horizon convictions

Letter shows Post Office told ministers it would oppose attempts to overturn 369 prosecutions

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Boris Johnson praises Liz Truss's new book on how to save the West

The two ex-PMs are making headlines in America this week

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