Theresa May
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Theresa May to call for unity, equality and successful exit from EUTory leadership candidate says she wants more accountability for big business, with workers on company boards and annual shareholder votes on executive pay
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Only MPs can put a woman in No 10 nowLetters: Voters did not elect the rank and file of the Conservative party, and the office of prime minister is not their private possession. A decision made by them would be potentially an extraparliamentary coup
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The reactionary crusade designed to woo party members could easily lose the next general electionAndrea Leadsom delights the Tory right. But she may cost them power
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It’s the Friends of Theresa and Andrea Show as champions of the Tory leadership candidates set out their stallsTory leadership contest: a bad dream with hot and cold sweats
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The Observer view on the Tory leadership electionAndrea Leadsom would be a disastrous prime minister
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Leadsom is not naive. She aimed her motherhood pitch at her votersTheresa May’s challenger has a fresh, insurgent agenda – and she knows her appeal lies with a restless party membership
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Who are the Conservative party members?Theresa May is the firm favourite, but Andrea Leadsom’s appeal to grassroots members makes the result uncertain
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Leadsom’s remarks on motherhood spark ugly Tory leadership rowUproar after Andrea Leadsom suggests she would make a better prime minister because she has children
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Report slams 'opaque' training deal between UK police and overseas statesHome affairs select committee criticises arrangement between College of Policing and regimes with dubious human rights records
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MPs won't ditch same-sex marriage, says Cameron after Leadsom remarksThe prime minister defends flagship law after Tory leadership contender attacks equality principle
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The Guardian view on women at the top: not the same as equalityEditorial: Whether it’s Theresa May or Andrea Leadsom, President Clinton or secretary general Clark, women are rising to the top. But that is only another milestone on the long, hard road to gender equality
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The Tories should appoint their leader and call an election quicklyLetters: Appoint your leader now; call an election quickly; then the rest of us can tell you what we think should happen next in our democracy
Leadsom was fresh meat in the Tories’ orgy of political homicide