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The latest news, updates and features on the Conservative Party – aka the Tory party or Tories. It is a centre-right UK political party, founded in 1834, and is currently in opposition to the Labour government. Kemi Badenoch is the current leader, having replaced former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

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Why we must talk about the lion-hearted generation all the time and not just on VE Day

Channel: Politics Politics May 8, 2025 By Craig Munro
CHESTER, ENGLAND - MAY 01: Votes are counted in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election at the DCBL Stadium on May 01, 2025 in Runcorn, England. The Runcorn and Helsby seat is in contention after MP Mike Amesbury was prosecuted for a drunken assault on a constituent. Once one of Labour's safest seats with a 14696-vote majority, Nigel Farage's Reform Party is polling well. (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

Keep track of the UK local election results in each area with our map

Channel: Politics Politics May 2, 2025 By Craig Munro

Map shows which areas of the UK are voting in the 2025 local elections

Channel: Politics Politics May 2, 2025 By Craig Munro
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage poses outside The Waterford Lodge, Morpeth, in Northumberland, whilst on the local election campaign trail. Picture date: Tuesday April 15, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Reform. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

Reform 'would win more seats than Labour or Tories if election was held today'

Channel: Politics Politics April 20, 2025 By Craig Munro
2XE23TB London, UK 25th June 2024 (File photo taken 2nd July 2023) The Conservative party have announced today that they will no longer support Craig Williams, former MP and present candidate for Mongomeryshire, at the fothcoming elections. It has been alleged that Mr Williams placed a ??100 bet on a July polling day three days before the election date was announced. He denys any wrongdoing, and is now standing as an independent. Bridget Catterall AlamyLiveNews.

Ex-Tory MP and 14 others charged with placing bets on 2024 General Election

Channel: Politics Politics April 14, 2025 By Craig Munro
A fire with smoke emerging during a far-right 'Enough is Enough' rally held in August 2024.

Lucy Connolly put my life in danger - keep her in prison

Channel: Politics Politics April 9, 2025 By Sharan Dhaliwal
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Celebrity Big Brother's Michael Fabricant on why he 'doesn't like to talk about his hair'

Channel: TV TV April 11, 2025 By Alistair McGeorge
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UK bans fake reviews and hidden fees that cost Brits £2,200,000,000

Channel: Politics Politics April 6, 2025 By Oliver Jones
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Truth behind Michael Fabricant's hair after Celebrity Big Brother star sparks theories

Channel: TV TV April 7, 2025 By Alistair McGeorge
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Gogglebox needs Mary and Giles even if you think they're 'unbearable'

Channel: TV TV April 2, 2025 By Adam Miller
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UK families to be '£1,400-a-year poorer by 2030'

Channel: Politics Politics March 23, 2025 By Oliver Jones
Play Video A protester has been ejected from a speech by Kemi Badenoch at London's Guildhall.

Protesters twice storm speech by Kemi Badenoch about Margaret Thatcher

Channel: Politics Politics March 18, 2025 By Craig Munro
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Gen Z 'ready to embrace dictatorship in Britain after losing trust in democracy'

Channel: UK UK January 28, 2025 By Gergana Krasteva
Jake, Anna and Alexanders it at the roundtable during an animated discussion on The Traitors

The Traitors might have exposed a dark side to Tory voters

Channel: TV TV January 15, 2025 By Meghna Amin

If there was an election tomorrow, this is who would win (but only by 1%)

Channel: Politics Politics January 14, 2025 By Craig Munro

Tories drank 102-year-old cognac at party in Sunak's final months as PM

Channel: Politics Politics January 9, 2025 By Craig Munro
Craig with Harry Meghan Starmer and Trump.

'New Nostradamus' predicts royal divorce and Keir Starmer ousted in 2025

Channel: Weird Weird January 1, 2025 By Jasper King
Nigel Farage dressed in hunting style clothes.

Starmer could 'push UK entrepreneurs' into arms of Reform, expert warns

Channel: Politics Politics December 26, 2024 By Oliver Jones
Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich and Kemi Badenoch

Chief bacon sarnie eater fires back over Kemi Badenoch's war on sandwiches

Channel: Politics Politics December 13, 2024 By Craig Munro
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UK and Spain enter war of words over Peppa Pig

Channel: Politics Politics December 11, 2024 By Craig Munro