Former cabinet minister Priti Patel has been knocked out of the Conservative leadership contest in the first round of voting ...

The phoney war is finally over, and at long last we have the first concrete evidence of who Tory MPs think their next leader ...

Robert Jenrick takes the lead in the Tory leadership race, with Priti Patel eliminated after the first round. What does this ...

By David Gauke OK, I have to admit it. I got it wrong. For months, I argued that Priti Patel was a good bet to win the leadership of the Conservative Party. When I first did so, she was a rank ...

And every contender will be buttonholing the 14 MPs who backed Dame Priti Patel, who has been eliminated after coming last in the first round. Here are the four most likely scenarios that might ...

The UK's Conservative Party leadership candidate Priti Patel has been eliminated from the contest after the first round of voting. Ms Patel, who was the home secretary in former Prime Minister ...

Former immigration minister Robert Jenrick has topped the first round of voting in the Conservative leadership contest, as ex-home secretary Dame Priti Patel was knocked out of the race.

Dame Priti Patel will not endorse anybody until after the party conference later this month Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Conservative leadership rivals are battling to woo Dame Priti Patel in the ...

Conservative leadership candidate Dame Priti Patel has been knocked out of the race after the first vote by party MPs. The former home secretary was running against five other candidates to ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Two Conservative MPs who backed Priti Patel in the first round of the Conservative leadership contest are now supporting James ...