Conservative Conference 2026 News Briefs

For Kemi, being the Nasty party is not toxic but a badge of honour | John Crace. The Tory leader says the party’s plans to cut people’s benefits are no more than ‘common sense’ It’s a thought. A bold one. Possibly a career-ending one. But a thought nonetheless. When Theresa May told the Tory conference in 2002 that under Iain Duncan Smith the Conservatives had become “the Nasty party”, many members took that to mean they had become undesirable. Within a few years, David Cameron had moved the Tories closer to the “hug a husky” centre and by 2010 he.

As it happened: Israel condemns Green party passing ‘Zionism is racism’ as a ‘stain on history of UK’. Party formally adopts policy which equates Zionism with racism, as all Green party votes to adopt policy that equates Zionism with racism On Friday the Times revealed that Katie Lam , the communities secretary, told a meeting in private earlier this year that the state pension system needs a fundamental overhaul. Speaking in June, when she was a frontbencher but not yet in the shadow cabinet, Lam was asked at a meeting with activists if she thought the pensions triple lock was.