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Voices: ‘Kemi is on the way up’: Readers react as Conservatives close gap on Reform in latest poll

YOUR VIEWS: Our community is divided over signs of Reform UK’s decline, with some seeing a meaningful Conservative recovery under Kemi Badenoch while others view the shift as tentative, fragmented and far from decisive

The Independent UK

No amount of defections will change the fact that Reform and the Tories are singing the same tunes

The battle for political domination on the British right is a family feud – the result will be a Conservative restoration, not revolution, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

The Liz Truss Show: Key points from first episode as ex-Tory PM's new YouTube programme launches

Episode one, titled London is Falling, sets the stage for the series’ mix of critique, debate, and proposed solutions

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Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

Has Kemi Badenoch sounded the death knell for one nation Conservatism?

The Tory leader’s shift to the right has left its centrist wing wondering if its tradition still has a future

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Conservative asylum policy: the moderate Tory tradition faces extinction

Editorial: Kemi Badenoch is presiding over the collapse of a party that was once a broad church into a narrow hardline sect

The Guardian - UK

Where is Kemi Badenoch’s Tory tent? In a political no man’s land

Having refused to learn from Rishi Sunak’s mistakes, the new Conservative leader looks set to repeat a lot of them

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Rivalry, ambition and the threat from the Right: Can Kemi Badenoch resuscitate the Tories?

The new Conservative party leader is less than two months into the job, yet reviews are already mixed

Evening Standard

Post Office campaigner Alan Bates says he’s been waiting a month for reply from PM about compensation delays – as it happened

Former post office operator tells Commons committee that Keir Starmer has not responded to requests for help with settling claims for Horizon scandal

The Guardian - UK

With Kemi Badenoch as leader, the Tories and Labour are on different political planets

This zealous culture warrior may be more of a threat to Labour’s meat-and-potatoes politics than Keir Starmer’s team imagines, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind

The Tory leadership hopeful paints a picture of special treatment. As the father of an autistic child, I can tell you that’s a lie, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

Tory centrists should back Kemi Badenoch and not boycott leadership vote, urges party grandee

Exclusive: After Tory moderates threatened to boycott the leadership election, Damian Green – former chair of the One Nation caucus of Conservative MPs – has urged them to back Kemi Badenoch instead

The Independent UK

The Tories need a clear ideology – Farage and the hard right offer only moral and electoral ruin

As the Tories face another divisive leadership contest, violence across the country puts it in a troubling context, writes Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s like Where’s Wally in broken Britain’: Ben Jennings on his Tory-era take on A Rake’s Progress

A millennial navigates the gig economy, fights in pubs and gets kettled on a demo in Snowflake’s Progress, the Guardian’s political cartoonist’s Hogarthian epitaph for the last 14 years of Conservative rule

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Uncool Britannia? How Britain might feel with the court of Sir Keir

Past big Labour wins have caused seismic cultural shifts but the unflashy stance of our new leader is described as ‘less Camelot – more Center Parcs’

Evening Standard

OPINION - The novel of the summer has reminded me: where did the politics of hope go?

Fourteen years ago, when David Cameron defeated Gordon Brown to usher in the new British age of chaotic, wayward Conservatism, I was still in my thirties. Watching first a sequence of divisions sewn into the country, on issues of genuine political consequence, then the factious, petty culture wars that nagged…

The Guardian - UK

Farewell, Michael Gove: from Brexit to levelling up, you sowed the seeds for this Conservative crisis

The Tory puppet master is leaving behind a febrile party flying ever further towards the fringes of our politics, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

Braverman tells Sunak to ‘own’ dismal election results and ‘fix it’ but says it’s too late for Tories to change leader – as it happened

Former home secretary says Tory voters are ‘on strike’ and are ‘not coming out to support us’ in wake of dire local and mayoral election results

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Conservatism’s biggest failure is the despair it has created about Britain’s future

Fantasies about British exceptionalism have brought the UK to the brink of collapse. We need a new, realistic vision, says author and journalist Will Hutton

The Guardian - UK

Anderson and Braverman shout loudest, but one man has led the toxification of the Tories: Michael Gove

As an influential constant in government, Gove has been key to the process of rightwing radicalisation, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Thatcher was right: Tory moderates have no power over the party’s ruthless rightwing extremists

The civilising influence of the ‘wets’ is a myth. The party’s angriest elements always end up back in the driving seat, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Thatcherite conservatism is on its last legs. I’ve had a disturbing glimpse of what might replace it

The global political right is flailing. If it is to reinvent itself, it will need a fresher vision than that espoused by Peter Thiel, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Conservative conference: an exercise in diverting blame for failure

Editorial: Without a candid audit of what has gone wrong, Rishi Sunak will struggle to develop a meaningful programme for the future

The Guardian - UK

Junking green policies, junking investment: scorched-earth Conservatism is all Sunak offers now

The cavalier way in which the latest U-turn has been presented reveals a government and a PM scrabbling for survival, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Nadine Dorries’s resignation: raggle-taggle Tories

Editorial: The former MP was out of step with Rishi Sunak, but she is not the only Conservative who thinks the party has lost its way

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