Why Tory centrists are hopeless at leadership elections
Conservative MPs try to second-guess the membership rather than voting with conviction.
ByKemi Badenoch
James Cleverly crashes out as the Tories lurch to the right
Party members will decide between Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick.
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The Tories have a chance – but only if they elect a leader willing to disrupt
Questioning bankrupt orthodoxies is a step towards devising workable solutions.
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The Tories are still in denial
Voters want economic interventionism, not reheated Thatcherism.
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Who’s got the edge in the Tory leadership contest?
Kemi Badenoch is the clear frontrunner – but party members are notoriously difficult to poll.
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What do Tory members want?
The grassroots want a leader who is ideologically aligned with them but also credible and competent.
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Kemi Badenoch and the legal definition of sex
The presumptive front-runner for the next Conservative leadership contest has been unfairly vilified.
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Kemi Badenoch sticks to the facts
Evidence suggesting young gay people are most at risk from gender-affirming treatment goes back decades.
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How Kemi Badenoch became the Tory front-runner
Can she win the Conservative leadership by appealing to both the right and moderates?
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How do Kemi Badenoch’s Brexit boasts stack up?
Joining the Pacific trade partnership CPTPP would boost Britain’s GDP by a reported 0.08 per cent – hardly a replacement…
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Local Conservative clubs are still clamouring for reckless right-wingers
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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As Conservative MPs descend into civil war, even Nigel Farage says Brexit has failed
Tory infighting over immigration and other issues is a proxy debate about the true meaning of leaving the EU.
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Kemi Badenoch boasts she can kick out staff in less than ten minutes
The minister is taking a ruthless approach to her departmental merger.
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Tory diversity scuppers Labour’s white male hopefuls
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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How the Tories lost their way
The new leader will struggle to regain control of a party still in the grip of Boris Johnson’s illiberal populism.
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Kemi Badenoch was the anti-groupthink candidate the Tories didn’t know they needed
It takes guts to defy your in-group, and Badenoch has done so again and again.
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Kemi Badenoch is the Tories’ hottest property
The darling of the right’s support will be crucial in the race to become the next Prime Minister.
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Kemi Badenoch’s stint as a hacker says a lot about her and the Westminster narrative
The hype around Kemi Badenoch is starting to fade.
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