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Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss will face Tory members tonight on the south coast at a hustings event, but voters in the sundrenched resort are far from impressed at the choice

There are strange quirks to the UK’s unwritten (or so no one writes in, uncodified) constitution. Did you know that in the 1990s and 2000s, a by-election was not considered legitimate unless Michael Crick had doorstepped a terrified local candidate?

He has been accused of being asleep at the wheel over inflation, but sacking the Threadneedle Street chief would be a risky step

Video shows candidate telling Tories in Tunbridge Wells he started making sure ‘areas like this are getting the funding they deserved’

The former chancellor told Tory members that he was proud of his work diverting public funds to wealthier towns

The attorney general wants to scrap Whitehall diversity training. It could mean a host of new lawsuits that the government would lose, says discrimination lawyer Robin Moira White

Carrying on with the current economic policy is ‘not going to cut it’, IFS chief says

This week Sajid Javid played another political blinder. He was the first to offer his resignation from Boris Johnson’s government, tipping Rishi Sunak into action, which in turn caused a resignation stampede. It is the former Chancellor who has taken the main brunt of accusations of disloyalty, but it was…

The Foreign Secretary and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak were grilled on Sky News by presenter Kay Burley who asked a number of hard-hitting questions of the leadership hopefuls.