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This man has quit Badenoch’s increasingly hard-right Tory party – others should be brave enough to do the same | Polly Toynbee
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a politics story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Global. The first report grouped here was at 23 Oct 2026, 11:16 UTC. The headline in use is “This man has quit Badenoch’s increasingly hard-right Tory party – others should be brave enough to do the same | Polly Toynbee”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
The London Assembly’s Andrew Boff is one of many who reject Kemi Badenoch’s authoritarian position. They are the only chance for the party’s future The chair of the London Assembly, Andrew Boff, resigned this week from the Conservative party after 53 years of membership.
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