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Our Next Tory Leader survey. @KemiBadenoch opens up a double-digit lead. @trussliz, @PennyMordaunt and @RishiSunak are bunched together second, third and fourth.
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From @patel4witham: If the left think I’m hardline on law and order, they should try meeting the British public
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+ @ConHome interview with @BorisJohnson: he says that every member of his Cabinet must sign up to Britain leaving the EU on 31st October – deal or no deal
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From @SteveBarclay: My fellow Conservatives face a choice. Look outwards, and follow @BorisJohnson. Or look inwards – and tear ourselves apart.
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From @EstherMcVey1: How to deliver Brexit from here. We must prepare properly for no deal.
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From @DanielJHannan: May’s deal. It leaves us facing colonial rule from Brussels, of the sort imposed on Bosnia following the Yugoslav war.
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WATCH: Duncan Smith – The leadership must be chosen by Party members, not in a “stitch-up” by a “cabal”
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WATCH: Social workers and the police have been “turning a blind eye” to grooming gangs “out of political correctness” – @SuellaBraverman
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If May isn’t on her way out by the end of today, don’t back her in tomorrow’s European elections
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From @SteveBakerHW: What madness is this that a Conservative Prime Minister would rather negotiate with Corbyn than deliver on democracy?
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By @BBradley_Mans: I will not be undertaking unconscious bias training – and call on my colleagues to take the same stand
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Our survey. How Party members would cast indicative votes. They are overwhelmingly for No Deal.
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From @DanielJHannan: No, the pound isn’t crashing over a trifling batch of tax cuts. It’s because the markets are terrified of @Keir_Starmer.
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From @TomTugendhat: Huawei's human rights record needs scrutiny before 5G contracts are signed
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From @SteveBakerHW: The Coronavirus Act created the most dangerous changes to state power seen in a generation. It must be replaced.
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From @GregHands: Why won’t my colleagues think it through? The Customs Union would be a disaster for British foreign policy.
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Our snap survey. Almost two-thirds of Party members want the Prime Minister out now. Over a third back her.
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Interview by @AndrewGimson & @PaulGoodmanCH. As May’s defeat looms, Johnson sketches a manifesto: “People want to see a bit of gumption and a bit of leadership”. And he comes out against Norway Plus
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From @PennyMordaunt: They said a US trade deal couldn’t be done. It can. We are doing it.
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From @DamianGreen: Our approach to China may now have to be more like our attitude to Russia during parts of the Cold War
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Our latest Next Tory Leader Survey. @PennyMordaunt leads @KemiBadenoch by under ten votes in over eight hundred.
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From @IoWBobSeely: While we are distracted by the virus, China prepares to seize Hong Kong – and crush freedom
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The complete run-offs from our Next Tory Leader survey. @KemiBadenoch first, @trussliz second, @RishiSunak third, @PennyMordaunt fourth, @TomTugendhat fifth.
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David Alton and @lukedepulford: Britain must lead the world towards tougher action against genocide
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+ @ConHome's survey. Next Tory Leader. So much excitement, so little change. @BorisJohnson maintains his lead.
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From @Steven_Woolfe: I'd beat Soubry in a by-election as the Tory candidate. Why is CCHQ so determined to stop me?
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Exclusive. CCHQ has been notified that the threshold for a voluntary party confidence vote in May’s leadership has been reached.
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From @darrengrimes_: Since we must use coal, why import it all – when we could instead create jobs by mining it in the North-East?
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From @JustineGreening: Brexit. We’re going round in circles – and only a second referendum can give a sense of direction
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Our survey. Almost seven in ten Party members say that Conservative MPs should vote against May’s deal.
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Our survey. Three out of five Party members will vote for the Brexit Party in European elections.
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From @NadineDorries on @ConHome: Thuggery. Abuse. Death threats. Unacceptable everywhere. But no-one came to Brexiteers’ defence when we were victims.
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From @Mike_Fabricant: @BorisJohnson's enemies will never forgive him for Brexit. They must not be allowed to oust him.
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Out, out, out. For the third time running, our survey finds a record proportion of party members wanting May gone now.
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+ @Geoffrey_Cox does his duty. In a single deadly paragraph, he shreds May's revised deal.
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From @darrengrimes_: Johnson must face down the teaching unions with Thatcher-like resolve.
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From @DanielJHannan: Ignore the Europhile sneers. Joining the Pacific bloc marks the rebirth of Global Britain.
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From @pritipatel: Delivering on the people’s priorities. Almost 9000 new police officers already – well above our target.
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Following this morning's announcement of the new Shadow Cabinet, here's @ConHome's print-and-keep guide to @KemiBadenoch's team 👇
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From @NickyMorgan01: For too long, the Party has appeased Brexiteer obsessives. It’s time for One Nation Tories to fight back.
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From @GregHands: “The power is with us.” The two EU officials who want to punish Britain, crafted the deal – and claim they are winning.
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Devastating.
The top 40 horrors lurking in the small print of Theresa May’s Brexit deal
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+ @DominicRaab, @Geoffrey_Cox, @michaelgove, @LiamFox , @PennyMordaunt – all these Cabinet members, and others, should resign tomorrow if necessary.
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+ @ConHome’s new Tory leadership election survey. @trussliz 58 per cent, @RishiSunak 26 per cent – 12 per cent undecided.
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From @DavidGauke: May should lead the Commons struggle against her successor’s plan to break international law if necessary
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China 1) Our survey. 85 per cent of Party members support the Government’s Hong Kong passport rights extension plan.
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From @William_Wragg: MPs debated and voted on the original Christmas rules. So we should be recalled to do the same for these new ones.
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Our survey. Almost two-thirds of party members oppose @RishiSunak's suspension of @LeeAndersonMP_.
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MPs praising the Speaker’s record ought to read the Cox Report on the bullying of Commons staff
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By @darrengrimes_: We must reject demands that the EU would make of no other independent state
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From @StevenEdginton: The BBC’s Question Time last week. @HackneyAbbott was the victim of her own rudeness – not of racism. As I saw at first-hand.
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No, @PhilipHammondUK's reselection last night does not protect him from being deselected if he loses the Whip
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Johnson’s critics are confronted by the dreadful possibility that he will make a success of Brexit
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WATCH: “You can’t tax your way out of a crisis. You’ve got to grow your way out of a crisis. That means cutting the size of the state” – @TiceRichard
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Our survey. Seven out of ten Party member respondents oppose the draft Brexit deal.
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"Maybe the Conservative Party no longer cares. Perhaps the sum of its ambition is to become the provisional wing of the right-wing entertainment industry, while @Keir_Starmer gets on with the tiresome business of actually running the country."
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The Conservative Party should give a warm welcome to Hong Kongers arriving in the UK
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“If we cheat the electorate – and Chequers is a cheat – we will escalate the sense of mistrust.” @BorisJohnson’s speech to ConHome, full text
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What’s at stake tomorrow is even bigger than Brexit. It is trust in politics. Which is why the deal as it stands must not pass.
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This Parliamentary farce reveals how much our political class has been infantilised
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From @BillCashMP: We would be within our rights to override the Withdrawal Agreement. And in any event, the EU itself is a law-breaker.
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+ First @ConHome Next Tory Leader survey since withdrawal of @BWallaceMP from the contest coming at 19.15. The findings are startling. .
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From @DanielJHannan: What is driving this chaos? I’ll tell you. The EU is determined to punish us.
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If the Tories are serious about electoral fraud, they'll take action on postal votes
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From @NickyMorgan01: If arch-Brexiteers sink this deal, they will drive many Conservative MPs to back a second referendum
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.@CHHcalling resigns as No Deal Minister: "I simply cannot support any further extension to Article 50"
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Interview with Chris Patten by @AndrewGimson: We must stand up to the Communists in Beijing who hate freedom in Hong Kong
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Our survey. Next Tory Leader. @BorisJohnson 72 per cent, @Jeremy_Hunt 28 per cent. 77 per cent have voted. On these figures, Johnson has already won.
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Trouble in Grantham – Boles’s association executive intends to accelerate deselection proceedings against him
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From @StevenEdginton of @LeaveMnsLeave: The polling which suggests that most voters believe MPs are trying to stop Brexit
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From @benedictrogers: It’s time for @DominicRaab to bring Magnitsky sanctions to bear on those oppressing Hong Kong
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From @LowTaxChloe: As a migrant to Britain, I say: what’s wrong with patriotism, borders and control?
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Eight in ten party members oppose extending Article 50, according to our snap survey
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From @EstherMcVey1: Now that May’s Brexit deal has been voted down, we need to win back trust. Here’s how.
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Mark Francois: The Government is bluffing. Why I and many others will vote against the Withdrawal Agreement later today.
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Our survey. A record total of nearly eight out of ten Party members say that May should announce now that she will resign.
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The Chequers proposal would prevent the UK regaining an independent trade policy, writes Peter F. Allgeier, former US Ambassador to the WTO
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Grieve and Griffiths lose confidence ballots at local association AGMs
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