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# tory party

This year
2023
# UK Government
Sunak orders investigation into Zahawi over tax dispute penalty
The Conservative Party chairman and former chancellor paid a penalty to resolve a tax dispute.
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Last year
2022
# UK
Tories will act against MP facing rape allegations if police open investigation, party chair says
Nadhim Zahawi said he has commissioned independent legal advice after allegations were reported to the police.
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Dec 4th 2022, 1:00 PM
# truss issues
Keep Calm and Carry On or quit: Is Truss certain to be ousted and how might it happen?
The British Prime Minister is battling to save her position despite several Tory MPs publicly calling for her to resign.
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Oct 18th 2022, 3:33 PM
# liz truss
New UK PM: Taoiseach congratulates Truss on election as Tory leader
Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney called for Truss to change the direction of UK-Irish relations,
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Sep 5th 2022, 6:15 PM
Voices
Neale Richmond: We owe it to our friends in the UK to call out their bad behaviour
The Fine Gael TD says the government here owe it to the people to hold firm as UK politics continues to face upheaval.
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Aug 7th 2022, 7:30 AM
# Leadership Battle
Rishi Sunak brags of his work diverting public funds from ‘deprived urban areas’
The former chancellor is seen in a video telling Tory members of his work as he fights the leadership campaign.
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Aug 5th 2022, 11:43 AM
# Leadership
Liz Truss wins polling boost over Rishi Sunak and backing of Sajid Javid
One poll of the Tory party members who will chose the next prime minister put Ms Truss 34 points ahead of her rival.
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Aug 3rd 2022, 9:19 PM
Voices
Opinion: Boris has left his party with a tough choice - a leader to the right or hard right
Peter Flanagan says the new leader of Britain will be decided by a small number of people and the choice isn’t great.
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Aug 1st 2022, 8:00 AM
AS IT HAPPENED
Boris Johnson steps down as PM but questions turn to when he'll be replaced
Johnson appointed a new Cabinet to serve during the handover today.
'Them's the breaks': Johnson announces resignation
Johnson appoints new ministers for caretaker Cabinet
Labour leader Keir Starmer says his party will call a vote of confidence if Johnson stays on "for months and months"
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Jul 7th 2022, 6:00 PM
# Leadership Race
Johnson resignation: How will the next Tory leader be selected?
There is set to be a crowded field of Tory MPs in the upcoming leadership contest.
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Jul 7th 2022, 3:22 PM
# stepping down
Boris Johnson to resign, but will remain as UK Prime Minister until new Tory leader is in place
It comes after over 50 Government members resigned and called for Johnson to step down.
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Jul 7th 2022, 12:36 PM
Voices
Boris Johnson: Four recent polls indicate where the UK crisis is heading
Hannah Bunting and Daniel Devine look at the embattled UK prime minister and why his mandate no longer exists.
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Jul 7th 2022, 8:25 AM
Voices
Opinion: Boris Johnson wins confidence vote - but the margin will make him nervous
Johnson won the vote last night, but is now considered weakened as 40% of his own MPs failed to support him.
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Jun 7th 2022, 8:04 AM
# tobias ellwood
Senior British Conservative under fire for arguing UK should rejoin EU single market
Tobias Ellwood claims there is an ‘appetite’ in Britain to make ‘course corrections’ to the current Brexit model.
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Jun 3rd 2022, 8:05 AM
# Partygate
Tory rebellion against Boris Johnson grows as senior figure warns of electoral losses
The number of Conservative MPs stating they have no confidence in the UK Prime Minister has mounted since the publication of Sue Gray’s partygate report.
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May 28th 2022, 11:31 AM
# Conservatives
Pornography in Commons ‘unacceptable’, Johnson says as Tory faces investigation
Boris Johnson said the claims against the unnamed MP, if proven, would be ‘clearly totally unacceptable’.
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Apr 28th 2022, 7:29 PM
# Number 10
Boris Johnson hit by fresh resignation and calls to quit in ‘partygate’ scandal
A fifth aide has walked out of No 10 in 24 hours.
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Feb 4th 2022, 5:06 PM
All time
# tory party
Leadership challenge ‘on the cards’ after Boris Johnson suffers largest rebellion
A senior Tory said if Johnson did not make changes, many would think it was time for a change.
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Dec 14th 2021, 11:30 PM
# Boris Johnson
First death of patient with Omicron announced in UK, as Johnson faces into difficult week
The Omicron variant is set to become the dominant strain of coronavirus in London by tomorrow.
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Dec 13th 2021, 2:43 PM
# Brexit
Ruth Davidson urges MPs to 'vote for a deal' as she resigns as Scottish Tory leader
She is to remain on as an MSP until 2021.
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Aug 29th 2019, 10:57 AM
# bozz lightfear
'To insanity and beyond': How the British papers are covering Boris
Johnson has promised to deliver Brexit by 31 October.
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Jul 24th 2019, 7:07 AM
# NEW LEADER
'Mad in England': How does the world see Boris Johnson?
The international impression of Johnson has evolved from simply an eccentric mayor to a symbol of Brexit Britain.
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Jul 24th 2019, 6:00 AM
# race for number 10
Health secretary Matt Hancock withdraws from Tory leadership race
Hancock received just 20 votes in the first ballot of 313 Tory MPs.
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Jun 14th 2019, 11:30 AM
# looking for votes
Boris Johnson surges to top of the table as Conservative MPs vote for leader
Three candidates have been eliminated.
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Jun 13th 2019, 1:17 PM
# the next PM
The race is on: Tories confirm 10 candidates to succeed Theresa May
Nominations closed at 5pm today.
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Jun 10th 2019, 6:07 PM
# Conservatives
Tory party tweaks rules to slim down leadership race as contenders prepare for TV debate
Channel 4 will host a TV debate on 16 June.
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Jun 5th 2019, 6:17 PM
# Race to the top
Michael Gove enters the race to become Tory party leader
Gove joins an already crowded race to become Tory leader.
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May 26th 2019, 9:53 AM
# Explainer
Grassroots Tories will have a huge role to play in choosing their next leader - here's how the contest works
Following Theresa May’s departure, how will the Conservative Party choose its leader?
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May 24th 2019, 5:52 PM
# the tories
Can anyone beat Boris? Here are the favourites to succeed Theresa May
All of them want Brexit but who will be the next Conservative party leader?
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May 24th 2019, 11:38 AM
# Endgame
May takes potshot at rivals as Brexiteer tells her not a 'cat in hell's chance' of getting Brexit deal through
Many Tories are irate at the deal reached between the UK and the EU, and they want to remove May from office because of it.
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Nov 17th 2018, 6:13 PM
# racially offensive
Conservative MP apologises 'unreservedly' for using n-word in Brexit discussion
Anne Marie Morris made the comments today while speaking on a eurosceptic panel in London.
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Jul 10th 2017, 4:48 PM
# Rainy Night in Brexit
UK Home Office won't say if Irish people will be exempt from controversial list of foreign workers
Home Secretary Amber Rudd wants to make companies list their non-British staff.
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Oct 6th 2016, 9:51 AM
# Fine Gael-ness
'I'm most certainly not a Tory myself'
Paschal Donohoe dropped by TheJournal.ie today to discuss Labour’s latest attack on Fine Gael and other matters.
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Jan 25th 2016, 9:00 PM
# All smiles
'I’m learning from the master here' - Eamonn Holmes and David Cameron's TV 'love in'
The interview went a little differently to one last week with Jeremy Corbyn.
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Oct 6th 2015, 1:07 PM
# sophie
Tory MP claims entrapment over Sunday Mirror sexting sting
Mark Pritchard claims he was contacted by the paper for the story which took down a UK Minister.
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Sep 29th 2014, 10:04 AM