Tories reeling from ‘catastrophic’ election poll forecast
Conservatives predicted to lose more than 200 seats in worst election result since party’s founding
Leadership drama? Shotgun marriage with Reform? The Tory party’s next move will define its future
Henry Hill
A reckoning is due – but thanks to voted-out contenders and internal divides, it’s not at all clear who will be leading it, says Henry Hill, the deputy editor of ConservativeHome
Penny Mordaunt and Grant Shapps among slew of Tory cabinet ministers unseated
Defeated Tories turn ire on party as Alex Chalk and Gillian Keegan also among list of ousted ministers
June 2024
Which Tory big beasts could lose their seats in the general election?
Who could replace Rishi Sunak as Tory leader if he loses the election?
Brief letters
Get mad about the continuing use of oil, not harmless orange powder paint
Brief letters
A Labour landslide on 37% of the vote? That makes the case for PR
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Reform UK plans ‘don’t add up’ and costings are out ‘by tens of billions of pounds per year’, says IFS – as it happened
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
General election TV Q&A: Sunak refuses to accept tax burden will definitely rise during next parliament – as it happened
Grant Shapps says Tories fighting to avoid Labour supermajority – video
Tories fighting to prevent Labour winning ‘supermajority’, says Shapps
‘I want Labour to come into power so I’m voting Lib Dem’: tactical voting threatens blue wall Tories
Labour and Conservative battlebuses hit the road, but ‘lonely figure’ Sunak seems like a solo traveller
May 2024
US challenges British claim China is sending ‘lethal aid’ to Russia
UK defence secretary, Grant Shapps, made claim as Russia begins fresh offensive in north-east of Ukraine with strikes on Kharkiv
Grant Shapps orders review into plane shortage before 80th D-day anniversary
Defence secretary says RAF’s fleet stretched owing to conflicts in Ukraine and Middle East, but expects aircrafts will be found
The politics sketch
Grant Shapps, the lighthearted defence secretary with a gag for every warhead
John Crace
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Keir Starmer averts row with union leaders as Labour reiterates ‘full commitment’ to new deal for working people – as it happened
National sovereignty is little defence against the global hunt for profits
