It has been a tough few years for our party. On July 4 it got even harder. The election result was the worst in our party’s history; we cannot simply ignore the message that the public sent us. We can’t hope to get back into government by waiting for the Labour Party to mess up.

Former Foreign Secretary James Cleverly surged to first from third in the latest round of voting for the UK Conservative leadership contest as the party’s Members of Parliament eliminated former Security Minister Tom Tugendhat.

Discover the rise of James Cleverly in the Tory leadership contest and how his conference speech resonated with the party.

Former UK Home Secretary James Cleverly is the frontrunner to bethe Leader of the Conservative Party and become the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons of the British parliament

Today’s third round of MP voting in the Tory leadership race has given James Cleverly an almost perfect result. Not only did he have a massive uplift of 18 MPs to 39, but with the 20 votes of

Surge in leadership contest backing for former home secretary comes as defeated party eyes route back to power.

One of the remaining four Tory leadership hopefuls will be knocked out of the race to replace Rishi Sunak on Tuesday as Conservative MPs vote to narrow the field to three. The parliamentary party will hold hustings in the morning, followed by a vote in the afternoon. Another vote will take place on Wednesday.

James Cleverly became favourite to take over as Conservative Party leader on Tuesday after topping the latest round of voting by Tory MPs. Shadow security minister Tom Tugendhat was knocked out of the race to replace Rishi Sunak after being backed by just 20 Conservative MPs.

James Cleverly? JAMES CLEVERLY? God help us. The former home secretary and former foreign secretary (neither position did he occupy with any lustre) easily topped the latest round of voting by MPs for the new Tory leader.