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Robert Jenrick MP

Robert Jenrick investigated over foreign donations

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay campaigning with Baroness Ruth Davidson on Saturday. PIC: PA

Poor polling 'motivating' Tories in countdown to May 7

Nigel Farage takes part in a rally during Donald Trump's first presidential election campaign in 2016 in Jackson, Mississippi (Picture: Jonathan Bachman)

Why it's clear Farage would make UK subservient to Trump's America Henry McLeish

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves need to come up with a positive vision of the future (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Reform's politics of despair will not fix UK's crumbling foundations Henry McLeish

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have been criticised for breaking manifesto commitments but, sometimes, serious politicians need to make compromises (Picture: Carl Court)

What Tories are getting wrong about Labour breaking manifesto pledges Christine Jardine

John Major and Margaret Thatcher, pictured in 1995, both knew the value of the European Single Market (Picture: Michael Putland)

European question destroyed the Tories. Now Labour could be next Martin Roche

Schools in England did well under the previous Conservative government, despite the party's problems in other areas (Picture: Darren Staples/WPA pool)

Why Scotland must learn from the success of England's schools Cameron Wyllie

Russell Findlay's party is polling poorly for next year's election

Analysis Findlay can bash the SNP, but the Tories are struggling for survival

Russell Findlay speaking at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester

SNP Scotland a 'laboratory for weird and wacky policies' says Findlay

Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch need to find inspiring visions of the future if they are to instil loyalty in their supposed followers (Picture: Aaron Chown/WPA pool)

Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch need to learn how to inspire loyalty Scotsman comment

Keir Starmer jokes with John Swinney and Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan at a meeting in Edinburgh last year (Picture: Andy Buchanan/WPA pool)

Reform's rise reveals how out of touch Starmer and Swinney really are Brian Monteith

Large numbers of Afghans fled the country when Western forces withdrew and the Taliban took over Kabul in 2021 (Picture: Master Sgt Donald Allen/US Air Forces Europe-Africa)

Why Afghan data breach cover-up is a genuine scandal Brian Monteith

Luxury Glastonbury glamping firm Yurtel racked up over £2 million in customer debts before collapsing.

Collapsed luxury Glastonbury Festival glamping firm debts revealed

Nigel Farage, seen visiting a tattoo parlour while campaigning in Cambridgeshire ahead of the recent local elections, has made clear he wants to destroy the Conservative party (Picture: Joe Giddens)

How Tories can defeat Reform – if they change to this leader Ian Johnston

Liberal leader Mark Carney addresses supporters after an election campaign dominated by Donald Trump's tariffs and his insistence that Canada should become part of the US (Picture: Andrej Ivanov)

Canada election provides warning to Tories and source of hope for all Scotsman comment

Sir Tony Blair, John Stuart the 3rd Earl of Bute, and Gordon Brown

Scottish prime ministers: All the Scots to occupy 10 Downing Street

Kemi Badenoch should speak to the insurance industry about their rising costs as a result of increasingly extreme weather (Picture: Leon Neal)

Why Conservative leader is wrong about climate change Scotsman comment

Donald Trump, seen meeting Vladimir Putin in Vietnam in 2017, may seem like a winner now, but it is unlikely to last (Picture: Mikhail Klimentyev)

Why Badenoch's decision to align Tories with Trump will destroy them Ian Johnston

Scottish Secretary Ian Murray is a straight-talker (Picture: Christopher Furlong)

Labour needs to convince voters current pain will mean future gain Scotsman comment

Kemi Badenoch is from the right of the Conservative party, but needs to reach out to the party's liberal wing (Picture: Dan Kitwood)

Badenoch must avoid lure of populism or face Truss-style disaster Scotsman comment

With only two right wheels, Tory clown car is heading for a crash Alistair Carmichael

Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick speaking during his Conservative Party leadership campaign launch

Jenrick 'would not consult Holyrood' on leaving European convention

Christopher Chope's reason for supporting Robert Jenrick over Kemi Badenoch in the Conservative leadership race betrays decidedly out-of-date attitudes (Picture: House of Commons)

Tory MP's stupid attack on Badenoch shows he's living in wrong century Scotsman comment

The next Conservative party leader will either be Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick (Pictures: Dan Kitwood and Ian Forsyth)

Cleverly's failed leadership bid makes Tory lurch to right more likely Scotsman comment

The Conservatives have adopted the culture-war language of those who want to see democratic politics paralysed by division (Picture: Dan Kitwood)

Why Tory conference was just a GB News-style freak show Joyce McMillan

From left to right: Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat (Pictures: Carl Court and Leon Neal)

Vote: Who do you think should be the next Conservative leader? Ian Johnston

From left, Tory leadership candidates Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat stand together on stage after delivering their speeches during the Conservative Party Conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham

What the Tory leadership candidates said in their conference speeches

Arguments used by Labour to attack Boris Johnson are now being deployed against Keir Starmer (Picture: Dan Kitwood)

Starmer’s blunders mean Tories already on course for early comeback Murdo Fraser

Former Conservative minister Jacob Rees-Mogg says Angela Rayner's has a right to call Tories 'scum' (Picture: Leon Neal)

Rees-Mogg's defence of Rayner's Tory 'scum' remark misses the point Scotsman comment

Kemi Badenoch has what it takes to restore the Conservative party's fortunes after election disaster in July (Picture: Leon Neal)

Three reasons why Kemi Badenoch can lead Tories out of the wilderness Lord Offord

As multiple crises hit Scotland in recent years, politicians focussed their attentions on Brexit and Scottish independence (Picture: Jack Taylor)

How Brexiteer and Scottish nationalisms have made tough times worse Scotsman comment

Former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, on the campaign trail in Davidson Mains in Edinburgh. Picture: PA

Ruth Davidson reveals her endorsement for Scottish Tory leader

The Tory leadership race is hotting up.

Inside what the public really thinks of the Tory leadership candidates

Colin Mackay with Murdo Fraser, Meghan Gallacher and Russell Findlay at the STV Scottish Tories leadership debate

Analysis Scottish Tory leadership rivals clash in STV live debate

Jeremy Hunt’s claim that the UK has ‘turned a corner’ is at odds with the polls Scotsman comment

Crispin Blunt has admitted he was the Tory MP arrested over the suspicion of rape

Breaking Senior Tory names himself as MP arrested on suspicion of rape

Alistair Strathern gives his victory speech in Mid Bedfordshire. Credit: Getty

Breaking By-election latest: Labour wins Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrives at the Europe Summit in Granada, Spain. Picture: AP Photo/Manu Fernandez

Tories seeking to 'stroke culture wars', claims Yousaf after Sunak speech

The Conservatives have suspended MP Scott Benton pending an investigation into undercover footage of him offering to lobby ministers on behalf of gambling investors in exchange for money.

Scott Benton has Tory whip suspended after offering to lobby for gambling firm

Jeremy Hunt is expected to give a statement this morning to reassure markets (Photo: Getty Images)

Jeremy Hunt statement: How to watch chancellor’s fiscal announcement

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