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Kemi Badenoch delivers speech denouncing Westminster ‘psychodrama’ as she fights to rescue her party

Introduced by an unsupervised Lee Anderson, the byelection candidate was out of his depth immediately

IN DEPTH : Nigel Farage’s warning that MPs have until May – the date of the English local elections – has prompted fears of more departures, write Kate Devlin and David Maddox

A core function of political parties is to nurture talent and, in some cases, provide a credible path to power for ambitious politicians. In this fraught climate, Reform UK increasingly appears to be an alternative route for those who see no such path via the Conservative party.

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She is a mother of seven, a former prosecutor and a fiery debater who claims that London is no longer safe. Claudia Cockerell sat down with Reform’s mayoral candidate for London 2028

Having lost the faith of his party and the public, the prime minister turns to dad jokes – and he’s even worse at those than running the country

An economic recovery could still change the parties’ fortunes. But the days when only two parties were licensed to supply Britain with prime ministers are gone, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The former home secretary has become the latest right-wing Tory to join Nigel Farage’s party