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Following on from their election defeat and Rishi Sunak departing, the Conservatives have been locked in a leadership campaign to pick the next party leader.Robert Jenrick, Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat are the final four vying to win the leadership and return a fractious party back to power from Kier Starmer’s Labour. But who will win and who’s most likely to succeed? Kate Devlin and John Rentoul cast an eye over the field of candidates and pick who they think is next face Kier Starmer at the dispatch box in Westminster. More

Sir Keir Starmer refused four times to apologise to pensioners for cutting winter fuel payments during an interview with Good Morning Britain.The prime minister sat down with Susanna Reid at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.“Would you like to take this opportunity to say sorry?” the presenter asked.“I am really concerned that we have been put in this position,” Sir Keir responded.The question was then repeated another three times but was not directly answered.“I promised we would stabilise the economy,” the PM responded, suggesting the people who should be apologising are the previous government. More

Angela Rayner warned against “entitled men” underestimating Sue Gray as she spoke to Andrew Marr during Labour’s annual conference on Tuesday, 24 September.The deputy prime minister’s comments came amid a row about Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff and her salary being larger than his.When asked if criticism against Ms Gray comes from “entitled men who’ve been to a certain kind of school” who are unhappy at her being at the core of power, Ms Rayner responded: “Underestimate your peril.” More

Sir Keir Starmer sent a blunt message to those who “still hanker” for the “weak and cowardly fantasy of populism”, dismissing criticism as “mere glitter on a shirt cuff” — referencing the time a protester gatecrashed last year’s speech to shower the prime minister with sparkles.During a major speech at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool on Tuesday, 24 September, the prime minister declared that “all the shouts and bellows” and “bad faith advice from people who still hanker for the politics of noisy performance” was “water off a duck’s back” to him.It came after opponents attacked Sir Keir and his top team for accepting gifts including clothing from Labour donor Lord Waheed Alli. More

Sir Keir Starmer mistakenly called for the “return of the sausages” in a major speech at Labour’s annual party conference in Liverpool on Tuesday, 24 September.The prime minister was calling for restraint and de-escalation between Lebanon and Israel, a ceasefire in Gaza, and the return of hostages taken by Hamas on October 7 as well as “a recognised Palestinian state alongside a safe and secure Israel.”However, he accidentally said “sausages” before quickly correcting himself to say “hostages” instead. More

A protester who heckled Rachel Reeves during her Labour Party conference speech was grabbed by the neck and hauled out of the venue on Monday, 23 September.The heckler shouted about the sale of arms to Israel before security removed him from the hall.“I thought we were voting for change Rachel, climate breakdown is on our doorstep,” the protester shouted as delegates drowned out his words.Ms Reeves responded that Labour “represents working people, not a party of protest.” More

Rachel Reeves was confronted with Labour’s past criticism of Boris Johnson receiving gifts during an interview on Monday, 23 September, as the party held its annual conference.As she spoke to Good Morning Britain from Liverpool, the chancellor was shown Angela Rayner’s tweet from 2021 in which the now-deputy prime minister accused the former prime minister of “going round with a begging bowl to Tory donors to pay for your posh new wallpaper and [moaning] that you can’t live off your £150,000 salary.”It came after Sir Keir Starmer, Ms Rayner, and Ms Reeves have said that they will not accept any further donations for clothing after a row over gifts. More

Angela Rayner joked Kemi Badenoch is doing “side deals with the Daleks” as she mocked the Conservative leadership hopeful’s row with Doctor Who star David Tennant.The deputy prime minister said next week’s Conservative Party conference will involve “10-minute auditions for wannabe leaders, beating each other to different shades of blue” following their general election defeat.Ms Rayner said “no-one is watching” the Tories, before questioning whether this was why Ms Badenoch, the shadow housing secretary, used her leadership campaign launch to say she is someone “who’s not afraid of Doctor Who”.Speaking at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Sunday 22 September, she added that the Tories “failed Britain and tried to cover it up”. More