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Sunak resorts to flogging tickets for strippers in last-ditch election cash grab
Go inside the Tory summer party - where wealthy donors paid tens of thousands for privileged access to senior ministers - including Rishi Sunak himself - in a desperate bid to bolster the party's election coffers
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'Get set for the charge of Iron Lady wannabes'
The Conservatives have no shortage of ambitious women, says Paul Routledge, but Thatcher would view the current lot as unfit to hold her handbag
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'Soaking the rich never felt more deserved - the forecast looks good'
Mirror columnist Brian Reade has a fair idea of what lies ahead for Sunak and the country over the next six weeks. And the forecast looks good
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The Tory big beasts who could lose their seats as poll predicts Labour landslide
Analysis by YouGov suggests Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt, Grant Shapps, Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg are among the Tories who lose at the general election
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Iceland boss thanks Tory MPs for 'bigging up' hot cross bun row as sales soar
Richard Walker, executive chairman of Iceland Foods, claimed the criticism aimed at the trial move helped the firm's sales of traditional hot cross buns soar 134% on Thursday.
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Mutya Buena issues bizarre apology over Sugababes' 'promotion' of sugar
Sugababes member Mutya Buena featured in a sketch where she apologised for promoting sugar - but now Jacob Rees-Mogg has claimed information about her band and sugar consumption is 'relevant'
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Matt Hancock humiliated by Jacob Rees-Mogg's son as joke spectacularly backfires
Matt Hancock, giving a speech at Eton College, decided to brand Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg a bad politician, only to learn his son Peter was in the audience and having none of it
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'Don't blame Rishi for the recession - it's a Tory technicality'
Spending wisely saves lives, says Fleet Street Fox. Wasting billions on PPE deals with your mates does not.
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Neighbours star's Tory links explained as Holly Valance is seen at Truss launch
Aussie actress Holly Valance was spotted on the front row of the right-wing Tory event, alongside rabble-rousing MPs such as Lee Anderson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the failed former PM herself. But what on earth was she doing there?
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49-day PM Liz Truss admits she never gets invited to London dinner parties
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss, who crashed the economy during her disastrous 49 days in Downing Street, demanded tax cuts at a Popular Conservatism launch event
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Sunak 'should learn from Labour' and stamp out Liz Truss' party within a party
Ms Truss, who was the least popular British Prime Minister since records began, will launch a group named “Popular Conservatism” this week
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Reform UK accepts £10,000 from millionaire accused of sexual harassment
The donation, which was uncovered by DeSmog, was made by hedge fund boss Crispin Odey last August just weeks after 13 women accused him of sexual harassment or abuse
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Keir Starmer compares fighting Tories to EastEnders as Rishi Sunak faces mutiny
Rishi Sunak faced ridicule in the Commons as Keir Starmer accused the bickering Conservatives of taking part in the 'longest episode of EastEnders ever put to film'
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'2024 is the Year of Democracy - and Tory big beasts are ripe for the cull'
If the opinion polls stay roughly the way they are, the Tory vote will be decimated and the big beasts with the small majorities will face televised shaming, says Brian Reade
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Johnson piles into Tory immigration row over numbers that rose on his watch
The former Tory Prime Minister piled pressure on Rishi Sunak to bring down net migration, which rose to 745,000 in the year to December 2022 - mostly on his watch
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Tory Greg Hands refusing to hand back £7,900 payout despite new job weeks later
The Tory Party Chairman received the taxpayer-funded payout when he was sacked as a business minister in September 2022, before returning to Government four weeks later
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'Hypocrite' Jacob Rees-Mogg pocketed £17,000 for job he did for just 7 weeks
Ex-Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg and Tory Party chairman Greg Hands got thousands of pounds of taxpayers' cash in payouts when they lost their jobs as ministers
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Gove and Rees-Mogg's seats at risk if Labour repeat by-election drubbing
New analysis of how the mammoth swing to Labour in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth might affect a nationwide poll found the Tories would be down to as few as 50 seats in the Commons
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PM leaves door open for Farage Tory return but ex-UKIP boss says: 'No, no, no'
Rishi Sunak refused to rule out letting the arch Brexiteer back into the Conservative Party, but Nigel Farage ruled out a return citing high net migration, tax and differences over Brexit
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Hundreds of Tories queue up to hear Liz Truss speech as if 2022 never happened
The former Tory leader, whose free-market, tax slashing policies crashed the economy during her 49-day premiership, gave her only address of the conference, arguing for even more wild tax cuts, deregulation and the persecution of newts
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Jacob Rees-Mogg earns a whopping £750 an hour on GB News on top of MP's salary
The multi-millionaire's pay check for the controversial news channel - which is equivalent to a £356,000 full-time salary - is in addition to the £86,584 salary Jacob Rees-Mogg earns
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Top Tory blasts Conservative MPs 'swanning off' to host GB News shows
Senior Conservative backbench MP Caroline Nokes, who chairs the Commons Women and Equalities Select Committee, lashed out at backbench party colleagues who present on the channel
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Ofcom launches probes into GB News over bias fears on shows hosted by Tory MPs
The media watchdog announced investigations into programmes hosted by MPs Jacob Rees-Mogg, Esther McVey and Philip Davies amid impartiality fears
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'The truth about the big Brexit lie is getting painful for Leavers'
The reality of Brexit is starting to hit us all - and even those who voted to leave the EU are getting upset
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'Ignore the foolish climate crisis sceptics - the facts speak for themselves'
Nada Farhoud says it is rather ironic that there has been a lot of hot air from sections of the right-wing media at the same time, which appear to deny the fact that the planet is in serious trouble