More than 120 Conservative MPs, including Jeremy Hunt, Liz Truss, Sajid Javid and Gillian Keegan, have been revealed to have paid £100,000 of taxpayers’ money to the Conservatives’ in-house web design services. MPs used the Bluetree website service to design their websites. When invoiced by Bluetree, they would pay for the sites, then claim the… Read More »
After Rishi Sunak announced the date as July 4, six more Conservative MPs announced that they would not take part in the General Election. This means that there are a total of 121 MPs who have declared that they will not run again this time. Of these, 83 were elected to Parliament as Conservative MPs.… Read More »
A former minister said that, far from acting as ‘shop stewards’, the 1922 committee was seen by some as ‘supporting the Rishi’. The Conservative Party’s 1922 committee has the power to make or break the careers of MPs up to the party leader. This sealed the fate of two recent prime ministers. In the final… Read More »
(PA Archive) A group of Conservative MPs are pressing the Government to publish crime rates for immigrant nationals in a bid to strengthen visa and deportation policies for certain countries. The plan, first reported by the Telegraph, was put forward by former immigration minister Robert Jenrick in an amendment to the Government’s Criminal Justice Bill.… Read More »
Rishi Sunak’s chancellorship is under threat from a chaotic plot by backbencher Conservative MPs who want to replace him with Penny Mordaunt before the general election. As the Conservatives lost 24 per cent of the vote in the polls, nervous MPs from across the party are said to be meeting for talks about Ms Mordaunt’s… Read More »
New poll shows Penny Mordaunt is the only Conservative seen as an asset rather than a liability to the party – Telegraph’s Paul Grover A group of right-wing Conservative MPs believe Penny Mordaunt should lead the Conservative Party at the next election as they consider a plot to oust Rishi Sunak, The Telegraph understands. MPs… Read More »
Sajid Javid, Ben Wallace and Dominic Raab among those to resign More Conservative MPs are running at the next general election since Labour’s landslide in 1997. Fifty-seven Tories have said they plan to leave Parliament rather than seek re-election, with the poll expected to be held in 2024. There are fears that the Conservatives are… Read More »
Conservative MPs have expressed their dismay at claims Rishi Sunak is holding secret talks with Dominic Cummings about returning to government. Boris Johnson’s former adviser has claimed Mr Sunak wanted a “secret deal” with him in a bid to “defeat” Labor and win the upcoming general election. The price of Mr Cummings’s return to the… Read More »