Trevor Phillips and James Cleverly clashed over allegations that a string of people with links to the Conservative Party or Number 10 bet on the timing of the general election before Rishi sunak announced it. The Sky News presenter quizzed Mr Cleverl ...

Criticising MPs and party leaders for lacking a quality that few of us can genuinely lay claim to is a fruitless pursuit

The seedy betting scandal is the latest self-inflicted blow to the Conservatives’ election effort

Will bets on the general election date be the final nail in the coffin for Rishi sunak’s poll gamble?

A fundraiser last week sugests that Rishi sunak may have given up on winning the election

Labour are seeking to maximise Rishi sunak’s discomfort over allegations about Tory candidates with a new ‘dirty dozen’ social media campaign

Rishi sunak has accused Nigel Farage of “playing into [Vladimir] Putin’s hands” with his claim that the West provoked Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Reform UK leader claimed “we provoked this war” in a BBC Panorama intervi ...

Reform leader’s ‘appeasement’ of Russian president is danger to security of Britain and allies, PM says

Marina Hyde on poor Rishi, who had to go without a Sky subscription as a teenager; Chris Godfrey spent a decade trying to quit smoking, then he tried hypnotherapy and it changed his life; when Jordan Hatmaker pulled the string of her parachute, she r ...

PM says he is ‘angry’ about allegations while Keir Starmer accuses him of ‘total lack of leadership’

New figures showed the Conservatives raised just £292,500 from 6 June to 12 June compared with £4.4m for Labour

Former Spectator political editor is old school friend who became PM’s best man and closest political confidante

The U.K. general election is nearly two weeks away

Rishi sunak’s scaring sheep and Ed Davey’s on the wheelbarrows … Nothing’s happening, at a chaotic speed, everywhere all at once, says comedy writer Ian Martin

Plus, a potted history of the Gurnos, diminishing returns from the debates, and the Tories’ £12k-a-table wake

Thousands of cases refused in clearing exercise have surfaced in appeals process, with 10,000 lodged in first three months of year

Prime minister refused to deny more Tory candidates and ministers had had a flutter on the election date

 

sunak was ‘incredibly angry to learn’ of allegations that people with links to the Conservative Party or No 10 bet on the timing of the 4 July vote

The suggestion that Tories and their associates used insider knowledge to enrich themselves is unlikely to help sunak narrow the gap in the polls