Boris Johnson cancelled a call with Vladimir Putin to discuss the escalating crisis in Ukraine because the prime minister was in the Commons, engulfed by the “partygate” scandal. Johnson will fly to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv today (Tuesday) after the UK announced new legislation for tougher sanctions on Russia in the event of an invasion. […]
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Downing Street has denied speaking to the Metropolitan Police force about the Sue Gray report which faces further delays following police intervention. The Metropolitan Police has told Sue Gray’s inquiry into illegal lockdown parties in Downing Street that its report can only make “minimal reference” to events that the police are investigating – further delaying […]
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The criminal investigation into alleged lockdown parties in Downing Street will uncover more evidence threatening Boris Johnson’s future as prime minister, according to former staff who worked at Number 10. Civil servant Sue Gray’s highly anticipated report about alleged lockdown parties in Downing Street and across Whitehall could be published today (January 26), after the […]
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A Conservative MP has accused government ministers, special advisers and the prime minister’s staff of conduct that “would seem to constitute blackmail”, as Tories reel over the future of Boris Johnson. William Wragg, chairman of a Commons scrutiny committee, said he has received reports that the government has been encouraging the media to publish “embarrassing” […]
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The Labour party has accused the government of “cultural vandalism” and looking like a “tin-pot dictatorship” over its reforms to BBC funding which will cost the state broadcaster more than £2 billion over the next six years. The Sunday Times suggests the move against the BBC is part of Downing Street’s ‘Operation Red Meat’- itself […]
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The NHS has been instructed to “urgently secure” private resources for patients whose treatment has been delayed by the pandemic. Staff shortages and rising numbers of Covid patients has seen a growing number of hospital trusts declaring “critical incidents” and Sajid Javid has told the NHS to boost capacity by making “use of the independent […]
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Angela Rayner has accused the prime minister of “corruption, plain and simple” and said Boris Johnson has “questions to answer” over allegations of cash-for-access to ministers relating to the Downing Street flat refurbishment. The latest allegations of Tory sleaze surround reports that the Conservative peer who helped pay for the costs of decorating the Downing […]
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Boris Johnson and ex-Brexit minister Lord David Frost don’t understand or seem to care about their “vandalism” to Northern Ireland peace says one of the key architects of the Good Friday Agreement. Tony Blair’s ex-chief of staff, Jonathan Powell said the government’s posturing over the European court of justice risks collapsing the devolved parliament at […]
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The government’s Christmas Eve announcement that it will relax immigration rules for care workers – to bolster a sector double hit by the pandemic and Brexit and left struggling to keep and attract staff – has been denounced as “a sneaky admission of failure” by the Labour party. High vacancy rates and staff turnover is […]
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Boris Johnson’s authority has been so weakened by recent events that he appears willing to gamble the nation’s health service and people’s lives in order to appease right wing Tory tabloids and his own backbench MPs. The embattled prime minister’s personal nightmare before Christmas – featuring the key resignation of a staunch Brexit ally, a […]
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