Make no mistake. There is an active plot against Kemi Badenoch at this party conference in Manchester.

The leadership will never be entirely sure which mishaps, bad stories and unfortunate events are the consequence of a deliberate strategy - and which are just another thing going wrong with a party straining to stay afloat.

This plot does not have rigid KPIs. There is no timeframe attached to its efforts. The goal is only to undermine her rather than oust her immediately. But the Tory wars have not gone away.

We may have seen Labour tensions on display at their conference in Liverpool last week, but nobody does internecine party-on-party hostility quite like the oldest political party in the world. Like Britain, are the Tories becoming ungovernable?

Take the defection of a one-time do

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