Kemi Badenoch

After years of messy Toryism, Kemi Badenoch is a true Conservative

There was the requisite rapture among the Labour faithful after his deeply-personal speech, delivered without a tie or a lectern and, at times, with tears in his eyes

BBC Question Time audience member blames 'radical left' for banknotes change

Kemi Badenoch doesn’t care what the BBC thinks, and that changes everything

She attacked Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s Labour Party and her right-wing rivals, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged to scrap inheritance tax (IHT) on family homes and increase the amount couples can leave tax-free to £1m, in her keynote speech at the party's conference in Birmingham

The Tories promised to cut inheritance tax before

As Kemi Badenoch basked in the applause of the Tory faithful at the close of her pivotal speech at Conservative party conference last year, one member of her shadow cabinet looked less than enthused

Political party conferences can be weird events — where positive thinking and hopeful rhetoric can crowd out reality

The Tories pledged to build Britain its own £10bn ‘Iron Dome’ missile interception system — but now even the party leader is backtracking

They are now mainly Liberal Democrat, and there’s not one Tory MP in all of Oxfordshire

Conservatives vow to scrap Natural England and Environment Agency in red tape ‘bonfire’

A sharp remark about British complacency highlighted the immense challenge for Kemi Badenoch, when the leader of the nation’s Conservative Party sought to outline her mission in a major speech on Sunday

As the Tories arrive in Birmingham for their annual conference still languishing in the polls, political editor David Maddox looks at how the party’s publicity team’s version of the Bayeux Tapestry is an ill omen for Kemi Badenoch

Under the proposal, any parent employed for at least 16 hours a week would qualify for 30 hours of free care weekly — ending the £100,000 ‘cliff edge’

Despite Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch consolidating her position and seeing improved personal ratings, the party is still far from its government heyday, and faces an ongoing challenge on the right from Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK

Prisoners praise Andy Burnham as they are freed early from jail

Kemi Badenoch: ‘I refuse to play by Westminster rules’

Kemi Badenoch: Burnham is just a people pleaser and Farage is not serious

The Tories are flattered by their status as the official opposition in parliament

Andy Burnham’s openness to the United Kingdom rejoining the European Union is a signal of a leader with a mission

Rising support for the government could make this the right time for Burnham to cement his position — but experts have urged caution

The Green party leader’s speech will set out plans for a “three-year emergency brake”, which would temporarily limit rent rises to the lowest of either Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation, wage growth or 2%

Under the Tory proposals, those aged 18 to 24 who apply for Universal Credit but have not previously worked for a continuous period of six months or more, for at least 16 hours per week, would instead have to take part in a "Get to Work" scheme

Under the Tory proposals, those aged 18 to 24 who apply for Universal Credit but have not previously worked for a continuous period of six months or more, for at least 16 hours per week, would instead have to take part in a "Get to Work" scheme

Kemi Badenoch congratulates Andy Burnham on stamina after three-hour Commons questioning

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has registered gifts worth £8,177 covering travel and accommodation for a meeting with media mogul Rupert Murdoch in Greece

But Labour accused the party of "a spectacular U-turn"

The Lib Dem leader sought to strike a more combative stance as he faced down criticism from his own MPs that the party was struggling for relevance and being too polite about problems

Kemi Badenoch has accused Andy Burnham of “fiddling while Europe is at risk of burning”, as she repeated her call for the prime minister to cut the welfare budget to fund increase spending on defence