Conservative and Unionist Party

Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery has faced multiple issues since inception

Prosperous rural region of east England is among the areas the Reform UK leader intends to turn into a graveyard for the Tories

Shifts in identity, social change and the strain of long incumbency mean Ireland’s nearest neighbour is about to undergo a sea change

MPs wary of ‘lessons from Iraq’ as parliament discusses UK’s response to conflict in Middle East

What might a prime minister Nigel Farage say or do in relation to Northern Ireland?

Release of documents on appointment of disgraced former ambassador spells real peril for prime minister and his Cork-born adviser Morgan McSweeney

Reform UK leader’s welcome of flood of Tory defectors suggests killing that party is still his main aim, rather than killing Labour

Former Conservative home secretary’s defection comes barely a fortnight after Robert Jenrick’s move

Jenrick urges UK public to ‘get on board’ and ‘join the movement’

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in talks with Conservative’s shadow justice secretary

Philip Young (49) allegedly drugged and raped Joanne Young over a period of 13 years

UK prime minister says the notion that leaving the European Union would solve Britain’s woes has been ‘proven wrong’

Laois man John Fingleton’s recommendations to cut the cost of nuclear development will be applied across Britain’s industrial strategy

What will happen to failed asylum applicants and migrants to the UK who have overstayed, and who can travel freely to Ireland?

There is widespread desire for electoral change and a greater political role for England

Loss of Welsh assembly seat in stronghold deals blow to prime minister’s leadership

UK politics is moving at speed, with voter loyalties shifting and atomising in unprecedented ways

Decarbonising Ireland and restoring biodiversity is going to take decades. We must be willing to experiment and sometimes fail

Tory leader outlines plan for reducing debt and fuelling growth as party seeks to move on from Truss-era turmoil

Conservative leader needs her big speech on Wednesday to land well as hard right-leaning shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick waits in the wings

Whether to focus more on people’s pockets or UK borders is big question at Conservative Party conference

Tribalism has engulfed European convervatism – and Kemi Badenoch’s Tories might be next on chopping block

Faithful see their party as the ‘liberal antidote’ to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

Move follows that of Nadine Dorries earlier this month

Passengers should not have to ‘endure somebody else’s crap music’, says UK’s shadow transport secretary

Right-wing activists accuse councils of being anti-British for removing Union Jacks and St George’s Crosses

A UFO-hunting police and crime commissioner is the latest to switch

Conservative politician suffered serious injuries in the IRA’s 1984 Brighton bombing that left his wife paralysed

Will humility and mea culpas mollify angry voters? Probably not

Force says alleged offences happened outside the statutory time limit for prosecution and decision does not impact other prosecution

Police assessing footage of group’s performance, which UK health secretary Wes Streeting on Sunday described as ‘appalling’

Politicians like Holly Cairns or Keir Starmer could meet the threat of the populist right with a lighter tone and a joke or two

Ireland is the UK’s best route back to better ties with the EU, says the former Conservative minister

SNP favourite to win while Reform UK fancies its chances of beating Labour, which has lost ground it gained in 2024 general election

Wide Awake Festival had ‘positive discussions with stakeholders’ involved in Brixton event

Nigel Farage’s party vies with Labour for working class votes in England’s north and midlands while Tories and Lib Dems battle in the south

Party colleagues fear her low-wattage turn as Tory leader could spell trouble

Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying Bill is nearing the end of committee stage

London Letter: Economic disquiet among farmers and in rural communities has been brewing since long before the tax changes

Conservative Party grandees gathered in central London for a night of reflection on Thatcher's early years as leader