Conservative Party
When leaving a major political party, politicians leave behind more than old friends and colleagues, they say goodbye to the well-oiled party machine; an existing infrastructure, campaign tools, and data.
Westminster finally saw the splintering of the two main parties this week, with both Conservative and Labour MPs coming together to form the Independent Group. MP Gavin Shuker took the HuffPost UK Politics team behind the story.
The major problem with our immigration system is that money trumps skills and character – how on earth do we make this thing work?
Concerns about housing cut across age, gender, geography, class and education – imagine what a well thought-out programme of social housebuilding could do to unite our divided society
Ex-Brexit secretary warns PM against customs union deal which would be a "flagrant breach" of Conservative manifesto.
My experience as a new parent in Westminster was not a positive one – we should be a beacon of light on parental rights
Johnson dismissed warnings about the impact of no-deal, but there would be long and short-term consequences
An election solves little and there is no appetite for no-deal – instead we need calm, competence, and a negotiated deal with the EU
Even though the Conservatives might not actively pursue a general election, they could find themselves facing one if enough backbenchers feel they are left with little alternative
The thousands of jobs and £148million lost should have been a wake-up call, but the Tories buried their heads in the sand and carried on as if nothing happened