The new leader of the opposition was less popular among new MPs but took the free market vote.
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In her victory speech, Badenoch described her first tasks as ‘tough but simple’ – we’d argue they’re tough and extremely challenging.
The two parties are actually fishing in slightly different ponds.
James Cleverly was the MPs’ favourite to stand in the final round of the leadership contest, but they somehow managed to knock him out, leaving the two rightwing candidates in the race.
The Conservative MP is far from the only politician to play up her working-class credentials and the changing nature of class in the UK makes it possible.
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.
Compared to many other countries, the UK’s maternity pay allowance is not generous.
Personality politics only ever ends one way.
They’re already tacking to the right but the six leadership contenders would be better off copying Starmer’s playbook.
Leader Rishi Sunak is standing down and the Conservative Party has to find a new leader to begin the fightback. Who will take over?
Labour’s manifesto was largely predicated on economic growth, but the new government faces several problems too serious to wait for growth to kick in.
Electoral defeat comes for us all in the end.
The Conservative party has been voted out of office in a Labour landslide.
Tactical voting is a unique feature of the UK’s first past the post voting system.
When the serious melds with the absurd, it’s easy to react in the wrong way.
Rishi Sunak hasn’t visited a hospital yet, which is a very unusual move for a prime minister.
The Conservatives campaigned against changing the voting system in 2011, but it could have saved them from a potential wipeout at this election.
Why we shouldn’t let the actions of a few taint the reputations of an entire political class.
Britain’s centre left has been divided since the end of the first world war – now it is the centre right that has been split.
Boundary changes are making this election difficult to map, so we turned to the census.
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