Conservative and Unionist Party

Chair of backbench group of Conservative MPs says candidates could receive formal warning to head off mudslinging

Former prime minister Rishi Sunak will remain as party leader while contest to find his successor takes place

The problems of Ireland are ones the new UK Labour administration would love: too much money, large tax surpluses and politicians choosing where to spend

While the right-wing Tory factions meet to plan a ‘rebuild’, election winners gathered in parliament to be sworn in

Keir Starmer is an antidote to the privileged Tories he has displaced but he will need to be ruthlessness and willing to upend policy

Hilary Benn named NI Secretary; Rishi Sunak says ‘sorry’ as he steps down as Conservative leader; Ian Paisley jnr loses seat

Keir Starmer’s party turned the election map red - but secured fewer votes than in 2017 when led by Jeremy Corbyn

Scottish Labour under Anas Sarwar has completed a Lazarus-like recovery

New leader names Rachel Reeves as Britain’s first female chancellor of the exchequer

Tories now face fundamental questions about future direction of the party

House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt among the well-known MPs rejected by the electorate

Tory election workers strike a defiant note despite crushing electoral defeat

Labour set to secure 410 seats, with Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives on 131

UK election: Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak says he will take responsibility for the result, which could cost half his cabinet their seats in parliament

The next UK government’s spending policy could lead to a boon for Stormont parties thanks to the oddities of devolutionary accounting

Comments by ally of Rishi Sunak come as Sun newspaper tells readers to back Keir Starmer on Thursday

UK general election: Westminster will seat 650 MPs by first-past-the-post, with the first counts expected hours after polls close

Labour leader says he is ‘not taking any lectures’ from James Cleverly about elections and accuses Tories of inflicting 14 years of chaos on the country

‘Have we had a few bad apples? We have, although to my knowledge nobody involved in an organised betting ring is standing for us, which is something’

Tory PM took aim at his likely successor in Downing Street but may really have been trying to throttle the flow of votes from his party to Farage’s Reform UK

Conservative Party faces losing so badly it won’t have enough seats to mount an official opposition. No wonder Tories are suddenly panicking about democracy

Election gambling scandal widens to opposition party after Conservatives withdraw support for two of their candidates

Mr Sunak faced yet more questions on the scandal that has engulfed his party over the past week as he was questioned at an event organised by the Sun newspaper

Rishi Sunak criticised amid Gambling Commission investigation into alleged misuse of privileged information by staffers with calls for him to suspend party figures

Rachel Reeves, who is on course to become the first female chancellor of the exchequer, is eyeing economic growth and an improved trade deal with the EU

The Irish Government would welcome the calmer atmosphere a Labour government would bring, but would also be mindful of the support for Farage and its potential longer-term implications

Hip-hop trio Kneecap claim Kemi Badenoch’s denial of £15,000 grant unlawfully discriminates against them on grounds of nationality and political opinion

Wall Street banks and big City law firms among employers addressing potential discrimination

Market research company Savanta found 46% support for Labour Party, up two points on previous poll five days earlier, while support for Conservatives dropped four points to 21%

Overlong and stuffed with unsavoury characters: is it a Marvel film or the Conservatives’ reign in Westminster?

UK’s foreign secretary also insists relations with Ireland are “improving” despite setbacks

Manifesto marks break from party’s ‘tax and spend’ image

Not even the proximity of Brad Pitt could add excitement to the flaccid Tory event

UK prime minister acknowledges frustrations as Keir Starmer’s party stays some 20 points ahead in run up to July voting day

After a torrid few days following D-Day row, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak will try to get floundering general election campaign back on track in Northamptonshire

UK election: Labour says Rishi Sunak lied about party’s impact on tax costs for families in televised pre-election debate

Mark Logan, who represented Bolton North East until parliament was dissolved, said the Tory party was ‘now unrecognisable’ from the one he joined

Things are looking up for Anglo-Irish relations. But Ireland’s diplomatic model has to work just as well with Tories as it does with a well-disposed Labour. Otherwise the country is exposed, reliant on the whims of personality

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting says re-electing Tories would be like ‘giving the matches back to the arsonists’

Labour deputy leader dogged for months by questions over tax affairs that threatened her political career