Conservative Party Conferences

October 1977: Martin Amis reports from the Conservative Party Conference

GB News will never love Kemi Badenoch

The channel’s viewers are her lost voters

Robert Jenrick declares war on the judiciary

The shadow justice secretary wants the power to appoint judges

The Tory conference vibe: sad, empty and haunted by Margaret Thatcher

Attendees are free to worship at the Thatcher cargo-cult

The danger for the Tories is simple irrelevance

The party is trapped in a pincer movement between Reform and the Lib Dems with no clear route out

Kemi Badenoch pitches the Tories as the Lib Dems of the right

The Tory leader made swipes left and right in her conference speech

Kemi Badenoch rages against the dying of the right

The Tories head to Manchester, dejected and rudderless

The Tories are in a different world to voters

There are whole swathes of the electorate to whom the party seems to offer almost nothing.

Could the Tories win the next election?

Labour’s woes present opportunities for the next Conservative leader.

The Tories are still in denial

Voters want economic interventionism, not reheated Thatcherism.

Westminster parties engulfed by a cost-of-conference crisis

Your weekly dose of gossip from the corridors of power.

The Tories needed to win conference season – but they lost it

For the first time since 1996, this looked like a Labour opposition destined for election victory.

Keir Starmer’s speech made the Tories look like the opposition

The hopes that Rishi Sunak’s allies had for conference season have been wholly disappointed.

Is Suella Braverman the future of the Conservative Party?

The Home Secretary’s conference speech was well received in Manchester.

On net zero, the Conservatives are increasingly estranged from business

At the Tories’ annual party conference, industry seemed more supportive of the green transition than senior politicians.

The Conservative conference can’t take its eyes off Farage

Your dose of gossip from the Manchester Central Convention Complex.

Rishi Sunak shows why he can’t be a “change candidate”

The Prime Minister spoke for himself rather than for voters.

The new Conservative Party is being born

Tory conference is not a wake, as many claim. It is a christening.

Andrew Boff’s removal is a symbol of the Tories’ self-destruction

The London Assembly chair is exactly the sort of liberal, urban voter the Conservative Party has not just lost, but…

The Conservatives are bringing the culture war to the NHS

The Health Secretary’s conference speech focused on trans issues and union relations rather than waiting lists and staff shortages.