
TOP Tories have abandoned the party’s floundering cause as the stampede towards the exits reached flood proportions this weekend.
Levelling-Up Secretary Michael Gove is among the latest Tory MPs who have announced that he will not fight his Surrey Heath constituency again.
Mr Gove has probably been the most influential neoconservative in British politics since Tony Blair quit to make his millions.

Corbyn and Sultana commit to launching new socialist party

If Labour MPs who rebelled over the welfare reforms expected to be listened to, they shouldn’t have underestimated the vindictiveness of the Starmer regime. But a new left party that might rehome them is yet to be established, writes ANDREW MURRAY

Starmer doubles down on witch hunt by suspending the whip from Diane Abbott