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Kemi Badenoch puts Tory leadership bid back on track in final round of speeches

James Cleverly, Robert Jenrick, Tom Tugendhat and Kemi Badenoch gave their final pitches to be Tory leader

The Independent UK

James Cleverly musters the Tory faithful after Robert Jenrick shoots himself in foot

COMMENTARY: Would-be leaders were trying to emulate David Cameron’s success in winning over the rank and file in 2005

Evening Standard

After the ‘Tory idol’ speeches, who most looks like a leader in waiting? Our panel passes judgment

All four have generated media headlines, but the winner will be whoever most impresses party members, at conference and at home

The Guardian - UK

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Tory leadership contender defends visas for health workers and accuses rivals of not being honest on migration

Solving immigration is ‘about visas, not about foreign courts’, Tom Tugendhat said

Evening Standard

Cleverly’s leadership bid gathers pace as he calls on Tories to be ‘more normal’

Former home secretary seeks to capitalise on tumultuous few days for his rivals in Conservative conference speech

The Guardian - UK

4 candidates to lead Britain's defeated Conservatives bash Labour, and each other

The four contenders to lead Britain’s Conservative Party have taken turns to argue why they have what it takes to lead the right-of-center party back from a catastrophic election defeat

The Independent UK

James Cleverly refuses to disown Truss tax chaos three times

The Tory leadership contender declined to distance himself from Liz Truss’ disastrous economic policies

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Watch: Conservative Party leadership candidates appeal to members on final day of conference

Watch again as the Conservative Party's leadership contest candidates spoke to members on the final day of the party conference on Wednesday, 2 October.

The Independent UK

Nigel Farage rules out deal with 'untrustworthy' Tories

Reform UK leader speaks out as quartet of Conservative leadership hopefuls are set to address Birmingham conference

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer tells Brussels press conference it was ‘right’ for him to repay £6,000 worth of gifts – as it happened

Announcement that PM is returning gifts comes after news Labour peer Lord Alli is under investigation by Lords commissioner

The Guardian - UK

Tory contenders dip into Blair’s playbook with ‘New Conservative Party’ revamp plan

Just as Tony Blair invented ‘New Labour’ to take his party back to power, two of the four Tory leadership candidates will today explain why a ‘New Conservative Party’ is needed

The Independent UK

Is this the Tory leadership race or the seventh circle of hell?

The woeful standard of wannabe leaders – KemiKaze, Jimmy Dimly, Honest Bob – proves the Tories’ masochistic need to be abused

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Robert Jenrick is creeping ahead of Kemi Badenoch, but foot-in-mouth syndrome is catching in the Tory leadership race

Roll up for the “Dancing on Ice” tournament visiting Birmingham this week — a feast of flashy pirouettes, slippery falls, arguments about the scoreboard — and the odd Tonya Harding-style conspiracy over whispering campaigns and attacks on rivals.

Evening Standard

Watch: Conservative leadership candidates Robert Jenrick and James Cleverly address Tory party conference

Watch again as Conservative leadership candidates Robert Jenrick and James Cleverly addressed the Tory party conference on Tuesday (1 October).

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Robert Jenrick defends UK special forces 'killing people' claim

ROBERT Jenrick has doubled down on his claim UK special forces are “killing rather than capturing terrorists” after a Conservative Party…

Evening Standard

Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch 'own goals' hitting their leadership campaigns on Day Two of Tory conference

The ‘stuttering’ of their campaigns is leaving room for James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat to gain momentum

The Independent UK

Robert Jenrick closing in on Kemi Badenoch in Tory leadership race, poll shows

The latest polling put the former business secretary just four points ahead of Mr Jenrick

The Guardian - UK

Badenoch says 10% of civil servants are ‘very bad’ and jokes they are ‘should be in prison bad’ – as it happened

Leadership hopeful says some civil servants leak secrets and the bad ones are usually ‘union led’

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Evening Standard

Robert Jenrick gets both barrels from Tory leadership rivals over SAS 'killing terrorists' claim

Jenrick attacked for video claim that European rights law is impeding UK special forces

The Independent UK

Tory leadership candidates lurch to right as they jostle for centre stage in bid to win over party faithful

Day two of the Tory conference saw the four leadership candidates abandon Britain’s centre ground of politics and swing heavily to the right in a bid to win over the party faithful

The Guardian - UK

Badenoch to dish out ‘hard truths’ in attempt to revive Tory leadership bid

Shadow housing secretary hopes 22,000-word essay on crisis facing Conservatives will make her the intellectual pick

The Independent UK

Fake tan, friendship beads and Bobby J hats: Leadership candidates’ merchandise handed out to win over Tories

News analysis: While freebies and gifts have left Keir Starmer and his new government under scrutiny, Tory leadership candidates have not been able to give merchandise away quickly enough. Here is what it says about each of the four candidates

The Conversation

What Tory leadership candidates should learn from the mistakes of Boris Johnson – and Silvio Berlusconi

The Conservative party is choosing a new leader, with four candidates still in the running: Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly, Robert Jenrick and Tom Tugendhat. Each is pitching to a party in dire need of a new direction and the path ahead is far from clear.

The Guardian - UK

As rumours grow of a stop Badenoch campaign, Tories cannot risk a stitch-up

Whispers at party conference suggest a surprise candidate could join Robert Jenrick in leadership race’s final two

The Independent UK

Who should be the next leader of the Tory party? Join The Independent Debate

We want to hear your thoughts on the direction the Conservatives should take to win back voter support—and who should lead the party’s recovery

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