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Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat all made 20-minute speeches pitching to party members, but there was little time to wonder what went wrong in July.
Electoral defeat comes for us all in the end.
Follow along with The Conversation’s coverage of the general election results.
The day’s agenda was already set by Nigel Farage, hours before the two party leaders stepped on stage.
Mordaunt is predicted to lose her seat at the election so it’s now or never for her – but the path to victory is laden with obstacles.
The prime minister had managed to get her cabinet to agree on a Brexit plan, but who are the political winners and losers?
Johnson trailed a speech about ‘letting the lion roar’. But you had to listen quite hard to hear it.
The foreign secretary still knows how to please a crowd, but he’s added a dash of gravitas to his offering.
The Conservative Party is the Harry Houdini of British politics – it puts itself into impossible situations, apparently for the sheer thrill of it
Summer has never truly arrived in Britain until we can enjoy those great traditional events of the season: Wimbledon, a major cricket test series, and an emergency post-election budget from George Osborne…
The day after the general election, this column quoted Churchill’s line about this not being the end, or the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning. This was meant to imply that although…
David Cameron and his government will have to be masters of tactics to get through this parliament. They’re already correcting their course.
After what must be the most irresponsible campaign ever by a governing party, there are choppy waters for the Tories to navigate
The final big pitch to the voters has been made. So who came out on top?
While all election campaigns are different – and this one is more different than most – there’s usually an incident or two that gives the political obsessive a pleasant reminder of bygone days. So far…
Cameron spoke with considerable authority, and apparent sincerity. The problem lay not in the style, but rather the content.
Will no one come to the rescue of Britain’s beleaguered political pundits? Seemingly not. Those revered traditional game-changers of UK elections – the budget, a bruising interview with Jeremy Paxman…
In ruling out a third term, Cameron is sending a strong message to the Conservatives.
It might be that this budget proves to have been too clever by half.
The budget will be the first serious test for the Conservatives in this campaign.
The Tories must focus on leadership and relegate the economy to a supporting role.
A UKIP victory was far from assured at the beginning of the Rochester and Strood by-election campaign, but by polling day it was as near to a political certainty as it’s possible to get in these volatile…
UKIP has a seat in the House of Commons, after Douglas Carswell, the former Conservative MP who defected to UKIP, won back his Clacton seat in an expected, but still convincing by-election victory for…
As Conservatives head to Manchester for their annual party conference this weekend, it seems a very long time since David Cameron, then newly-elected party leader, urged the electorate to “Vote Blue, Go…
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