Even before this week, Andy Burnham was destined to go down in the history books as the Prime Minister who refused to prioritise the military budget over 'social security'.
The Conservative leader said getting threats was 'really tough, but you just have to get on with it' after the ex paramilitary man said she would be left in 'a ditch with a bullet in her head'.
In a direct echo of Margaret Thatcher's approach in the 1970s, Mrs Badenoch published a major document setting out plans for a return to 'common sense' Tory values.
Less than two years after taking over a party still reeling from crushing electoral defeat, Kemi Badenoch has led a remarkable rejuvenation
Kemi’s soaring LAST year the Conservatives went into their annual party conference with plotting rife and misery in the air — the gloom having failed to lift in the wake of 2024’s General Election hammering. That the mood this year is very different is down to the increasingly impressive Kemi…
IF a week is a long time in politics, then the past year has been a whole era for Kemi Badenoch. The jury is out on whether this was an Ice Age that saw the Tories locked in the electoral deep freeze, or a Golden Age where an empress vanquished her rivals and flourished. Badenoch...
Mrs Badenoch entered the stage in Birmingham to a low, Jaws-style chord. Activists jolted to their feet in fright and gave an ovation to this tiny figure in a trousersuit
What amazing changes a year can bring. At the time of the Tory Party conference 12 months ago, Kemi Badenoch was being written off by politicians of all parties
The Tory leader says the party’s plans to cut people’s benefits are no more than ‘common sense’ It’s a thought. A bold one. Possibly a career-ending one. But a thought nonetheless. When Theresa May told the Tory conference in 2002 that under Iain Duncan Smith the Conservatives had become “the Nasty…
Sitting in her living room in Belgravia's Chester Square in the final year of her life, Margaret Thatcher (pictured) was becalmed. She knew her place in history was assured.
