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John Rentoul

Nigel Farage is the ghost at the Conservative Party feast

Diana Thomas

I’m trans and fractured my spine – don’t I belong on a women’s ward?

Eric Garcia

Gaetz has thrown the House into chaos. Nobody knows what comes next...

<p>Business secretary Kemi Badenoch said she tells her children that ‘this is the best country in the world to be black’ </p>
femi oluwole

Britain is ‘the best place to be black’..? No thanks to the Tory party

Badenoch condemned a narrative that ‘tells children like mine that the odds are stacked against them’, while propping up a government that is deliberately stacking those odds, writes Femi Oluwole

<p>The contestants already out on manoeuvres are (L-R): Kemi Badenoch, Liz Truss, Suella Braverman, Clare Coutinho, Gillian Keegan (inset), Priti Patel, Penny Mordaunt</p>
Voices

The seven Tory women battling it out to succeed Rishi Sunak

<p>Suella Braverman delivers her keynote speech at Manchester on Tuesday </p>
Voices

Was this the moment we passed ‘peak Suella’?

<p>Doctors strikes are creating a crisis in the NHS </p>
Voices

This is the first NHS strike that has left me frightened and abandoned

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during the Conservative Party annual conference (Danny Lawson/PA)
Voices

Britain needs HS2, prime minister – not more wishy-washy promises

<p>Stevie Nicks unveiled her ‘mini me’ Barbie on stage during a show at Madison Square Garden on 1 October </p>
katie edwards

The problem with the ‘Stevie Nicks Barbie’

<p>Jeremy Hunt: don’t mention a penny off income tax </p>
Voices

Jeremy Hunt’s tax-cut hint won’t appease Tory rebels – or the voters

Voices

It’s about the rhythm, not blues: 2023’s Black British trailblazers

<p>If you really want to improve attendance, then investment is required</p>
james moore

Here’s how to really improve school attendance

<p>Chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt flew from Heathrow to Manchester (Jordan Pettitt/PA)</p>
sean o’grady

Flying to Manchester for Tory conference? That’s just plane silly....

<p>‘Do as I say, not as I do’ would be a better slogan for the Conservative Party </p>
Letters

Never has the moral integrity of politics in this country sunk so low

The Independent View

What’s left of HS2 will be a monument to the Tories’ time in power

Voices

Make no mistake, Kevin McCarthy chose this

Voices

McCarthy’s downfall shows the dangers of capitulating to extremists

<p>Ethnic Armenians have been fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh</p>
The Independent View

Abandoned by Russian ‘peacekeepers’, Armenians cry out for our help

<p>Claire Coutinho, a ‘rising star’ of the Conservative Party, declared that Labour will introduce a ‘meat tax’</p>
Voices

Heard the one about Labour’s meat tax? The Tories really hope you have

<p>In a Church that still insists on a male priesthood, many women feel powerless </p>
Voices

Will same-sex supporting Pope prove too much for the Catholic Church?

<p>In a Church that still insists on a male priesthood, many women feel powerless </p>
Voices

Will same-sex supporting Pope prove too much for the Catholic Church?

<p>Students have turned covert recordings of teachers into threatening YouTube videos</p>
Voices

I know what schoolchildren with phones get up to in the classroom

Voices

Why AOC and Ilhan Omar want to join Matt Gaetz to boot Kevin McCarthy

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Suella Braverman claims ‘hurricane’ of migrants coming to UK

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Trans women to be banned from female NHS wards, says Steve Barclay

298 comments

Sunak set to finally confirm he will scrap HS2 rail link to Manchester - live

254 comments

Putin suffers loss of 261 troops in 24 hours as Kyiv offensive gains momentum - live

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<p>The tagline for Liz Truss’s conference rally was ‘Make Britain Grow Again’ </p>
Voices

Liz Truss’s latest big idea? Convincing us she never existed

<p>This country needs a more compassionate leadership, one that lives in the real world</p>
Letters

This country cannot afford another Tory government

<p>In recent months, only a handful of the Afghans offered refuge by the UK for their part in helping British forces have been brought to safety </p>
The Independent View

Britain promised them a warm welcome. We lied

<p>Richard Walker, executive chair of the Iceland supermarket chain, has quit the party with a blistering attack</p>
Voices

Are the Tories no longer the party of business?

<p>If Sunak allows Conservatives to return, over the coming days, to the dreary bloodsports of which they are now so overly accustomed, then he has no chance </p>
The Independent View

Rishi Sunak is running out of time to get control of his party

<p>It’s time the government came good on its promise of an energy social tariff consultation</p>
Letters

Nobody should spend their final days worrying about energy bills

<p>Richard Walker, executive chair of the Iceland supermarket chain, has quit the party with a blistering attack</p>
Voices

Are the Tories no longer the party of business?

<p>If Sunak allows Conservatives to return, over the coming days, to the dreary bloodsports of which they are now so overly accustomed, then he has no chance </p>
The Independent View

Rishi Sunak is running out of time to get control of his party

<p>It’s time the government came good on its promise of an energy social tariff consultation</p>
Letters

Nobody should spend their final days worrying about energy bills

<p>The message is clear: if the Conservatives are to regain their lost support, they need to crack the hard nut of solving Britain’s fiscal and economic crisis</p>
Voices

The Tory party conference is starting to look more like a wake

<p>All Sunak has done with his ‘pragmatic’ approach to HS2 and to net zero is to create more uncertainty</p>
The Independent View

On a fast train to nowhere: Rishi Sunak’s visionless party conference

<p>Let’s not waste many tears on Fox or Wootton</p>
Voices

Channelling anger: Why GB News matters (but not in the way it thinks)

<p>Things can only get worse for Sunak for the next few weeks</p>
Voices

The Conservative conference is already a disaster for Rishi Sunak

<p>Rep Matt Gaetz </p>
Voices

Republicans ‘still can’t get their s*** together’ – this proves it

<p>Rep Matt Gaetz </p>
Voices

Republicans ‘still can’t get their s*** together’ – this proves it

<p>I have a lot of sympathy for David Beckham</p>
Voices

As a fellow OCD sufferer, here’s my advice to David Beckham

<p>It is a provocative pontificating negative style of broadcasting</p>
Letters

GB News reflects the worst parts of American ‘shock journalism’

<p>We need new policies if we’re to save what’s left of the natural world</p>
Voices

I’m a tree expert – here’s how the Sycamore Gap tree ‘felt’ as it fell

<p>Tinder Select will allow users to message anybody they want to twice a week </p>
Voices

Tinder’s new $500 feature gives the green light to harassment

<p>Trump is now so far ahead and out of sight over his Republican rivals for the party nomination that he has pivoted to fighting the general election</p>
Voices

Don’t be distracted by the circus: Trump is frighteningly smart

<p>Liberal Tories fear Sunak is lurching to the right to appease his hardline MPs and to shore up the Tories’ core vote </p>
Voices

Liberal Tories are in a gloomy mood – and they’re plotting rebellion

<p>How much history has the sycamore ‘observed’ since it was a sapling </p>
Voices

From George I to Charles III, the Sycamore Gap was part of our history

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