https://flipnews.co.uk/topics/conservative-party/ The latest Flip News stories on conservative-party. en-GB Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:59:41 GMT https://flipnews.co.uk/uk/badenoch-britannia-shield-10bn-iron-dome-pledge/ https://flipnews.co.uk/uk/badenoch-britannia-shield-10bn-iron-dome-pledge/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kemi Badenoch has pledged £10bn for 'Britannia Shield', an Israel-style Iron Dome missile-and-drone defence system, in a pledge Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge is to set out at the Conservative Party conference. Sarah Whitfield uk-defence conservative-party kemi-badenoch The Times https://flipnews.co.uk/uk/jeffrey-archer-dies-aged-86/ https://flipnews.co.uk/uk/jeffrey-archer-dies-aged-86/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Jeffrey Archer, the bestselling novelist and former Conservative politician, has died aged 86, his publisher HarperCollins announced. He died at home on 5 October, a day before the publication of what he said would be his final novel, Adam and Eve. Tom Ellery jeffrey-archer obituary books conservative-party Reuters