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The tilt back to ideas was refreshing but her opponent sounded closer to where public opinion is on the energy crisis

Liz Truss was always Labour’s preferred candidate to win the Tory leadership race because they finally get to face someone who they think they can beat. And it’s not just Labour strategists and the polls — Tories from all wings of the party feel like this could be the beginning…

Conservative leadership hopefuls have been touting themselves as the candidate Labour fears the most since the contest kicked off last month.

The “Labour for Liz” campaign is braced for a Tory bounce in the polls if the front-runner is declared Tory leader on 5 September and replaces Boris Johnson in Downing Street the following day

BORIS Johnson was told he “paved the way for the end of the Union” during his final appearance at PMQs.

It's thought the tweet was posted accidentally, pulling in a headline from a Telegraph article which said rival Liz Truss was 'wooden'. Two MPs have recently been murdered

‘Don’t rest on your laurels’: Keir Starmer and Ed Davey urged to work together after by-election wins

Former Tory seats have been lost to Labour in Wakefield and the Liberal Democrats in Tiverton and Honiton

Despite 41% of his MPs voting against him, the prime minister has vowed to continue

There is a clammy, sticky feeling of shame I can’t shake when I consider Westminster now. Cowardice, bullying, lying and ambition oozes out of every antiquated orifice. Sexual aggression, an out-of-control drinking culture, ministers who are free to throw things at the staff and get away with it. Rules that…

The sad death of Minder star Dennis almost provided me with some material for this column, but the education secretary scuppered it