It seems extraordinary that a once great party, which used to boast that it was the most successful in the history of democracy, is coming to an end, and everyone just pretends that it is business as ...

Conservative MP Danny Kruger has defected to Reform UK in a huge blow to Tory leader Kemi Badenoch. The shadow work and pensions minister and MP for East Wiltshire said, “the Conservative party is ...

The political party systems of the UK and South Korea are vastly different, but both countries have recently shown similar patterns of conservative parties struggling to avoid poor performance. The UK ...

The public scandals and internal disagreements engulfing the Labour Party provide an all-pervasive soundtrack to life in Britain today. But it's not just the governing party that is stuck in a ...

Washington’s Chance to Force Qatar and Iran’s Breakup Hamit Coskun’s Victories and Losses Applying Iraq’s Hardest Lessons to Iran Take heed. In 2019, Boris Johnson led a smashing victory for the Tory ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Britain’s Conservatives trail hard-right Reform UK in polls after their worst-ever defeat, battling to remain ...

This year’s Conservative Party conference met with a question mark hanging over its future. After a collapse since Boris Johnson’s removal as leader in 2022, Britain’s “natural party of government” ...

Kemi Badenoch entered the Conservative Party conference last year competing with three of her Tory rivals for the leadership. As winner of that contest, this time around she confronts a more ...

Matthew Barnfield receives funding from The British Academy. Since Reform UK took in several high-profile Conservative defectors in the space of a few weeks, a debate has arisen about whether these ...