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Badenoch, Cleverly, Jenrick, Tugendhat: four ways for the Tories to reach the same wilderness

Each behaves as if they are vying to be PM when the reality is years in opposition, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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

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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

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…

The National (Scotland)

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

Evening Standard

Tugendhat condemns Tory rival over claim UK special forces ‘kill rather than capture terrorists’

Party leadership contender says Robert Jenrick’s remarks show ‘fundamental misunderstanding’ of law of war

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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’

The Guardian - 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 Independent UK

Tom Tugendhat says he does not accept the term ‘climate emergency’ in attack on Labour policies

The leadership contender claimed Ed Miliband’s policies are going to ‘destroy Britain’ as he criticised the plans for a state-owned energy company

The Independent UK

Please stop Liz Truss making public appearances. Not for our benefit, for hers

Truss events have almost become freak shows where audiences turn up to see what mad thing she will say next

The Guardian - 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 Independent UK

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 Conversation

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

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Watch: Tory leadership hopefuls Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat address party conference

Watch again as Conservative leadership candidates Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat addressed the party conference on Monday, 30 September.

Evening Standard

Freebies battle breaks out among Tory leadership contenders

The four candidates vying to become Tory leader have been showering party members with an increasingly bizarre selection of branded gifts

The National (Scotland)

Kemi Badenoch to be interviewed at Tory party conference – how to watch

TORY leadership candidates Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat will take to the stage at the Conservative Party conference this afternoon...

Evening Standard

Tugendhat and Cleverly 'win' Tory conference Day One as Badenoch and Jenrick have 'difficult' starts

Former Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch sparked a row over maternity pay and ex-immigration minister Robert Jenrick faced questions over donations

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Cleverly says it was a mistake for Sunak to say he would ‘stop the boats’ because that was ‘unachievable target’ – as it happened

Former home secretary says the phrase ‘stop the boats’ was ‘an error’ and it was too complicated a problem to distil into a soundbite

Evening Standard

Nigel Farage beats all four Tory leadership contenders in having what it takes to be 'good PM' - new poll

The Reform UK leader ‘looms large’ over the Conservative leadership contest, says Keiran Pedley, Director of Politics at Ipsos

Al Jazeera

‘Hugely significant’: Who’s in the race to become UK Conservatives leader?

Four candidates hope to rule over the party trying to recover from historic electoral blow. Who are they?

The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: Battlefield Birmingham as the Conservative leadership race takes shape

In today’s newsletter: Low attendance and an ever lower mood is expected at this week’s Tory conference as Jenrick, Cleverly, Badenoch and Tugendhat jostle for position

The Guardian - UK

What are the four candidates’ pitches to become next Tory leader?

How Jenrick, Badenoch, Cleverly and Tugendhat stand on immigration, the economy and foreign policy

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch faces backlash as Tory rivals seize on maternity pay comments

Leadership contender’s team in damage control mode after she is criticised for saying burden on business is ‘excessive’

The Guardian - UK

Jenrick and Tugendhat call for Tories to cut leadership contest short

Contest ends on 2 November, meaning Rishi Sunak would respond to the budget then step down three days later

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