Contender says ‘it is about being brave and not being scared that the Guardian is going to mock us’. Closing summary ...

Most damagingly for his future prospects, he was blamed by many Tory MPs in the south for a perceived zeal to concrete-over ...

According to Blue Ambition, a biography written by Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft, it was at Sussex University that Badenoch got a taste for right-wing politics - becoming "radicalised" by the ...

Like Truss - another figure now on the Tory right - he voted to remain in the European Union in 2016. But he has since ...

Fellow hard-right candidate Kemi Badenoch was attacked by veteran Tory parliamentarian Christopher Chope for being too ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to provide police escorts to Taylor Swift after receiving free tickets to one of the star’s shows ...

Conservative leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch has dismissed a Tory MP who said he wouldn't choose her as leader as she is ...