The Liberal Democrats are demanding transparency over government Covid contracts and multi-million pound “bungs” to friendly media following Dominic Cummings’s explosive testimony to the Coivd Inquiry [pdf]. Cummings told the inquiry that state funding had been “funnelled” to the Evening Standard, owned by Lord Evgeny Lebedev – the son of a KGB spy who was […]
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BBC chairman Richard Sharp has resigned after an investigation found he failed to disclose key information about his relationship with Boris Johnson before his appointment in 2021. Sharp’s position came under scrutiny when it was revealed he facilitated an £800,000 loan for the disgraced former prime minister before Johnson appointed him BBC chairman. Sharp failed […]
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The HMRC is sending private debt collectors to universal credit claimants who erroneously and, in most cases through no fault of their own, received overpayments. The government wants to reclaim the money, some of which goes back ten years. According to a Sky News report, the government is cutting benefits to over one million people […]
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Last week, Michael Gove and David Lammy attended secret cross-party talks at Ditchley House, The Observer reports. They joined leading Brexiteers, remainers, business leaders, and diplomats for a two-day conference at Ditchley House in Oxfordshire. The paper obtained details describing the gathering as “private discussions” under the banner: “How can we make Brexit work better […]
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Labour is demanding an investigation into Boris Johnson’s appointment of the BBC chairman who is reported to have helped the disgraced former prime minister secure an £800,000 loan. Richard Sharp was appointed chairman of the BBC by Johnson in 2021, only weeks after helping him arrange a guarantee on a loan in late 2020. Johnson […]
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Police have arrested and held for 13 hours a documentary filmmaker and a press photographer filming a Just Stop Oil protest on the M25. Police also searched one of their homes at 11pm and seized an iPad belonging to a daughter, claims filmmaker Rich Felgate who is making a documentary about Just Stop Oil. The […]
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King Charles’ staff at Clarence House are reported to be “livid” after receiving redundancy notices during a service for the dead Queen. Up to 100 staff at the King’s former official London residence learned – during the thanksgiving ceremony for the Queen, held on Monday in Edinburgh – that their jobs are at risk. “Everybody […]
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Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have withdrawn from the third Conservative leadership TV debate following concerns the clashes between rivals are damaging the party’s standing. Sky News has been forced to cancel the programme after announcing Sunak and Truss – two of the leading contenders to be the UK’s next prime minister – “do not […]
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It appears Boris Johnson’s wife Carrie is a sucker. Or at least was, when she was Johnson’s mistress. And not just because a married man creates a vacancy when he marries his mistress. But, because, as Private Eye reported this week, Carrie’s position as Johnson’s mistress was discovered by the MP who walked into Johnson’s […]
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Julian Assange can be extradited to the US after UK home secretary Priti Patel approved the request. Wikileaks – the organisation founded by Assange – immediately confirmed it will appeal against the decision, calling it a “dark day” for British democracy and press freedom. Assange, who is Australian, is being held in London’s maximum security […]
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