Tory

A Conservative member of the Scottish parliament was very publicly trolled by the official Holyrood Twitter account, and (accidentally) compared to a vegetable… It all started when Stephen Kerr was…

People are forced to use food banks because of a “broken down relationship or boiler”, a Tory minister has claimed. Gillian Keegan spoke out as she was grilled on whether…

Tory MP Mark Francois has been strongly criticised for using a “crass racial slur” in the House of Commons. Francois, a former minister and the MP for Rayleigh and Wickford,…

Four Tory MPs set to be given peerages by Boris Johnson will not immediately resign their Commons seats so they can avoid triggering tricky by-elections. The former prime minister wants…

A Marks and Spencer boss and former Tory frontbencher has criticised the government’s inflammatory language on immigration, warning that “the public is thirsting for a more civil discourse”. Archie Norman,…

A Tory minister has distanced himself from Suella Braverman’s remarks about Albania after the country’s prime minister accused the UK of descending into a “madhouse”. Graham Stuart admitted that “unfortunate…

A Tory minister has clashed with LBC’s Nick Ferrari over Rishi Sunak’s last-minute decision to attend the Cop27 climate, accusing the presenter of “gotcha nonsense”. Climate minister Graham Stuart defended…

A Tory MP has said he “does not trust” Suella Braverman after he accused her of “deliberately” letting conditions at the Manston migrant processing centre become overcrowded. Sir Roger Gale…

Suella Braverman has characterised the UK’s migration system as “broken” as she claimed “illegal immigration is out of control”. The home secretary, facing questions in the Commons over the chaos…

A Tory MP has accused the home secretary of “deliberately” allowing a migrant processing centre to become dangerously overcrowded in a bid to deter more asylum seekers from coming to…