Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel has been rebuked by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch after she defended sky-high immigration under the Conservatives when she was Home Secretary.
Robert Jenrick has found himself in an early pole position in the Tory leadership race as he topped the first round ballot – as Priti Patel became the first to be knocked out.
What the Conservative Party has to understand is that it is no good anymore to think that the politics of Halifax’s Trimmer are an adequate response to contemporary problems, says politics professor James Alexander.
Counter-terror and extremism experts, including former Conservative home secretaries, are warning against exploiting extremism for political gain ahead of Michael Gove's controversial new anti-extremism plan.
"Being progressive" is something staff "should be proud of", according to BBC Director General Tim Davie in a newly leaked recording.
Senior Whitehall mandarins want it both ways, says Daily Sceptic columnist J Sorel. They want to exercise political power, but pretend Whitehall is no different from any other workplace, bound by the same codes of conduct.
