The government's efforts to speed up housebuilding are sowing division in communities, a Conservative politician has said.

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Norman Tebbit, who has died aged 94, was a British polit­ical bruiser who, unexpectedly for many, proved a highly effective cabinet minister for Margaret Thatcher. Firmly on the right of the ...

Former-MP Craig Williams, along with 14 co-defendants, faces a wait of more than two years for trial. The former aide to ...

Sir Jake Berry, the former Conservative Party chairman, has defected to Reform UK. The close ally of Boris Johnson confirmed ...

Ex-Tory chairman Sir Jake Berry has defected to Reform, in the latest blow to the Conservatives. The former MP for Rossendale ...

For the time being Jones will not seek elected office, unlike fellow ex-Tory MP Dame Andrea Jenkyns who was recently elected ...

Just how many of the 121 Tory MPs elected last summer will be there by the end of this parliament? Already, Patrick Spencer ...

A former Conservative MP who twice lost the party whip has joined Reform UK to head up its social care policy team.

Ex-Welsh secretary David Jones becomes the third former Tory to join Nigel Farage's party in the last two weeks.

In one exchange, he asked if they could help him “get the wording right”, which he could then “convert into parliamentary ...