Dame Priti Patel is the Conservative leadership candidate who best understands the party’s members, a former Cabinet minister has argued in a new public endorsement. Wendy Morton, the MP for ...

Former Home Secretary Priti Patel is the first candidate to be knocked out of the race to become the next Conservative leader. Bob Blackman, the chairman of the 1922 Committee which balloted MPs ...

We will be looking at contenders in reverse order as suggested by the bookmakers — we started with Mel Stride and now we move on to Priti Patel. The Conservative party lost the general election ...