Dominic Cummings has savaged Boris Johnson and his government during a blistering seven hours of testimony to MPs on Wednesday about the response from Number 10 to the pandemic. “Tens of thousands of people died who didn’t need to die” during the pandemic because of government failings, said Cummings, who claimed the prime minister dismissed […]
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Home secretary Priti Patel has been accused of delaying the publication of a report into the murder of Daniel Morgan to protect friends at Rupert Murdoch’s News International. Chris Bryant, the Labour MP for the Rhondda was granted an urgent question in the Commons on Monday “on the failure to publish the Independent Panel Report […]
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Wales is launching the UK’s first universal basic income (UBI) pilot scheme, first minister Mark Drakeford has announced. The policy will “see whether the promises that basic income hold out are genuinely delivered” for people, said Drakeford, confirming recipients will get a monthly stipend from the Welsh government. Jane Hutt, the newly appointed social justice […]
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Boris Johnson has warned that the route out of lockdown may face “serious disruption” because of the India variant, just two days before the biggest lifting of restrictions in England for a year. Rising numbers of cases combined with “important unknowns” about the variant, including how transmissible it is, means “hard choices” may have to […]
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The prime minister of the United Kingdom has a county court judgement (CCJ) against him for failing to pay a debt of £535. Private Eye exclusively revealed that Boris Johnson was issued with the judgement for unpaid debt last October, “and six months on, it still hasn’t been paid.” A CCJ debt must be at […]
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A jubilant SNP is celebrating a record breaking landslide victory in Scotland after recording the “highest number of votes, highest number of constituency seats ever, [and the] highest vote share ever in a Scottish election”. “You’d have to go back to 1966 to find an example of a party securing such a high % of […]
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Shaun Bailey mayor has upset the polls to take an overnight lead in the race to be London mayor over Labour incumbent Sadiq Khan. The Conservative candidate was trailing by up to 20 points in pre-election polls but tonight (Friday) has a shock lead of more than 5,000 votes. Bailey’s showing in the capital caps […]
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The latest twist of post-Brexit relations with the EU has seen the UK prime minister send a Royal Navy ship to Jersey, a move mirrored by the French president who also sent a naval vessel to monitor the developing situation. John Bercow, the former speaker of the House of Commons, said it was not a […]
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The Labour party is set for a massive defeat at Thursday’s polls with the party trailing the Conservatives by 17 points ahead of Britain’s biggest set of elections since 1973. Sir Keir Starmer has already moved to fend off imminent questions about his leadership in anticipation of a series of humiliating defeats. Polls before the […]
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Conservative party workers are furious after discovering headquarters diverted £60,000 to pay for the prime minister’s flat refurbishment whilst telling staff there was no money for a pay rise. The pay of officials at the Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) has been frozen since Boris Johnson became party leader in 2019. Finance director Aimee Henderson, told […]
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