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The ban on the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to silence employees subjected to harassment and abuse is a significant and long-awaited moment – one that has been talked about …

The former Conservative cabinet minister David Jones has joined Reform UK. Jones, who was the MP for Clwyd West from 2005 until standing down in 2024, said he had quit …

A Conservative MP has referred himself to the parliamentary watchdog after it was alleged he was paid by a company that helped him write questions to government. Former minister George …

Liz Truss has hit out at the Conservatives’ shadow chancellor after he formally disowned her hastily reversed 2022 mini-budget, saying it had damaged the party’s reputation for economic competence. The …

Back in 1997, the former minister and famous political diarist Alan Clark identified a potentially fatal flaw in the Conservative party’s leadership system. No, not the controversial membership vote – …

A Conservative peer proposed delaying the UK’s proposed ban on heated tobacco, weeks after a leading cigarette company paid for him to visit its research facility in Switzerland. The tobacco …

Police have reportedly dropped an 18-month investigation into allegations of rape against the former Conservative MP Crispin Blunt. Blunt, 64, formerly the MP for Reigate in Surrey, was arrested in …

The House of Lords watchdog has launched an investigation into a Conservative peer who helped to secure a meeting with a government minister for a Canadian nuclear technology company he …