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Each behaves as if they are vying to be PM when the reality is years in opposition, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Former PM claims she could have delivered better result for Tories if she had clung on to power

Theresa May and William Hague say Tory leadership contenders need to acknowledge the scale of the defeat in July

Former PM likens Keir Starmer to ‘a bullock having a thermometer unexpectedly shoved in its rectum’ in Unleashed

Former PM says leadership candidates must understand that party lost election because it ‘trashed our brand’

THE ideal party conference, especially if you've just won a massive landslide just a few months ago, should be unmemorable.

In the day job, I’ve tried to get the measure of most party leaders and prime ministers since the Eighties. There was one so dull that I nodded off in an upright position over lunch. Mostly I’ve had an idea of what makes them tick: Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher…

Far-right leaders in Europe and the US are trying to wreck measures to save the planet, Theresa May warns. They want to ‘stir up a culture war’ to win votes, says the former PM, who criticises Trump for calling climate change ‘a hoax’ – and accuses Nigel Farage of ‘politicising’…

Defiant Welby says he won’t be silenced: ‘If it is interfering to seek to avert the climate change catastrophe, let us interfere’

Exclusive: Grenfell Next of Kin claim former prime minister’s decision ‘had massive consequences on our pursuit of our justice’

The clue is in the name. The “mission-driven” government to which Keir Starmer is ostensibly committed is meant to be defined by its strategic objectives and the steps by which they will be achieved in his “decade of renewal”.