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    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      UK political party funding
      Egypt-born billionaire Mohamed Mansour tops UK political donations

      Donors give £12.3mn to Conservative party in first quarter, while Labour receives £5.9mn

    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      News in-depth
      Mohamed Mansour: the tycoon behind the Tories’ biggest donation in decades

      Egyptian-born billionaire lived ‘hand to mouth’ after Nasser nationalised his father’s company but now owns a sprawling conglomerate

    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      Chris Giles
      Promising tax cuts is bad economics — and politics

      The chancellor’s fiscal rules give him room for pledges that please the Conservative backbenches but there’s a big caveat

    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Undecided voters muddy Labour prospects as it surveys UK’s bleak economic terrain

      Team Starmer may need an injection of that ‘hopey-changey stuff’ to pull off an election win

    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Labour election victory at risk from undecided voters, UK pollsters say

      Sunak well placed to win over a large bloc of floating voters despite Starmer’s substantial poll lead, survey suggests

    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      Bob Stewart
      Tory MP Bob Stewart charged with racially aggravated public order offence

      Representative for Beckenham, who will appear in court in July, will keep party whip for time being

    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      UK immigration
      Sunak doubles down on plan to house asylum seekers on barges

      PM says government’s harsh approach is beginning to deter people from crossing Channel in small boats

    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Brexit was built on two irreconcilable visions

      Next Tory leadership election will be set against backdrop of MPs lamenting electoral deal struck to deliver Britain’s departure from EU

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      Robert Shrimsley
      How the Thatcherites lost their Brexit dream and their party

      The trade-off the original Tory Leavers made with populists handed the Conservatives over to an alien worldview

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Probe into devolution’s poster child may cast long shadow over regional projects

      Government inquiry into Ben Houchen’s Teesside regeneration scheme will not necessarily weaken area’s Conservative support

    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      UK local government finance
      Teesside mayor struck secret deal to transfer Hartlepool property

      Previous agreements by Ben Houchen to shift assets to developers ‘lacked transparency’

    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Labour stores up trouble over its plans to curb immigration

      Investment in skills is one part of the solution, but is unlikely to lead to meaningful reductions in numbers alone

    • Saturday, 27 May, 2023
      News in-depthUK immigration
      Record migration is just one more broken promise riling Essex towns

      Attitudes have softened since Thurrock was one of the UK’s top Brexit-supporting districts

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      John Burn-Murdoch
      Britain is not America — and the right shouldn’t forget it

      The US brand of national conservatism fails to resonate in the UK because it is a fundamentally different society

    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Sunak is doomed either way on immigration

      Backing calls to lower record migration levels is one thing, actually swallowing the costs is another

    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      Suella Braverman
      Sunak decides not to launch ethics investigation into Braverman

      Home secretary expresses regret over her handling of speeding offence

    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Reduced immigration demands do not align with realities of low funding

      The Conservative party needs to address issue of spending on skills and staffing

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Suella Braverman
      Braverman says ‘nothing untoward happened’ in response to speeding claims

      PM under pressure to launch probe after allegations home secretary asked civil servants to help avoid penalty points

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Braverman in speeding saga as net migration row spills into open

      Allies attribute revelations to a smear against home secretary

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Sunak to consult ethics adviser over Braverman speeding claims

      Opposition says PM must establish whether home secretary broke rules in trying to avoid penalty points

    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      The Weekend Essay
      Can a right turn revive the Tories?

      At two political gatherings over the past week, a battle has been raging for the soul of Britain’s Conservative party

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Sunak rules out coalition with DUP after next election

      PM says he is ‘not interested’ in deal with Northern Irish party that propped up Theresa May’s government after 2017

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      UK immigration
      Sunak distances himself from Conservatives’ net migration pledge

      PM implicitly blames Johnson for government’s failure to meet immigration target

    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
      Brexit
      Sunak faces ire of Brexiters after ditching ‘trivial’ EU-era laws

      Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage joins Tory Eurosceptics criticising list of rules to be repealed this year

    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Marking out the paths to victory

      A big part of Suella Braverman’s speech was about positioning herself for the leadership race. But it comes at a cost for the government

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