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Across the fertile wheat lands of Ukraine, the combine harvesters are in a deadly race to gather the crop before it is burned by indiscriminate shelling and rocketing by marauding Russian artillery and air strikes. Miraculously a fair amount of golden grain is being harvested and stored – though yields…

Tory MP Brandon Lewis claimed Liz Truss had "huge credentials" when it came to supporting the Union.

Brandon Lewis defends Tory leadership contender’s now-ditched policy, saying critics had erred by ‘extrapolating’ figures

Britain’s governing Conservative Party has delayed sending out ballots for the party’s leadership election after a warning from the intelligence services about the risk of fraud

The risk posed by hackers, including those linked to states like Russia, has been apparent in elections across the West.

Social media savvy ‘human hand grenade’ seen as continuity candidate and currently ahead of Rishi Sunak thanks to questionable tax promises and neo-Thatcherite branding

Richmond MP must convince fellow Tories he is right man to lead economic revival and unite party

Today’s Diary: Pa Salieu cut from Commonwealth ceremony / Truss’s failed attempt to woo Tory group / Ballet in ‘crisis’ after Brexit / Jones calls for end to trans bashing

While many of you are getting ready to (attempt) to jet off to a Greek island to get away from it all, I’m heading to Scotland. For me the cooler climes is the equivalent of going to the Caribbean. Many of us are in despair about the state of our…

The next Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister will be announced in a little over a month, so who is coming out on top at this stage of the contest?

They are among the 0.3 per cent of the UK population – about 150,000 people – who will get to decide the country’s next prime minister