Contender says ‘it is about being brave and not being scared that the Guardian is going to mock us’. Closing summary ...
Kemi Badenoch has criticised a Conservative MP’s suggestion she could not head the Tories because she was too “preoccupied” ...
The former Cabinet minister dismissed claims by Sir Christopher Chope that being a mother-of-three would hinder her as leader ...
Most damagingly for his future prospects, he was blamed by many Tory MPs in the south for a perceived zeal to concrete-over ...
Conservative MPs have whittled down the six leadership candidates to the final two – and now the vote goes out to the party ...
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 ...