The royal family are proving their worth to the government this week as troubles around the palace steal the media’s attention from a series of significant events and important stories. Claims that the Duchess of Sussex bullied palace staff dominate today’s front pages ahead of this weekend’s US broadcast of Harry and Meghan’s Oprah Winfrey […]
The government has been accused of “a betrayal of millions’” over their £3.5 billion fund to fix the cladding scandal that has left leaseholders in debt and limbo since the Grenfell fire, more than three and a half years ago. Politicians from all parties joined homeowners and campaigners to condemn the government’s £3.5 billion fund […]
The highly critical National Audit Office report into the government’s awarding of £18 billion in procurement deals has been overshadowed by infighting in the Labour party and the prime minister’s green plan for the UK. The parliamentary watchdog made a number of startling findings including a lack of transparency, failures to explain why certain suppliers […]
The UK has secured five million doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine which claims to have almost 95% effectiveness against the virus. Health secretary Matt Hancock confirmed the UK has “an initial agreement” for five million doses from the US drugmaker, but added they will not be available until spring 2021. “Absolutely brilliant news,” hailed […]
The UK recorded its highest number of Covid cases in a 24 period with 33,470, while becoming became the first country in Europe to pass 50,000 deaths from the virus. Infections in over-80s are soaring while the NHS reports the number of people waiting a year or longer for surgery is 107 times higher than […]
Boris Johnson’s promised Whitehall shake-up is continuing apace. Director general of the Attorney General’s Office, Rowena Collins Rice, announced her resignation only hours after the departure of Sir Jonathan Jones, head of the Government Legal Department. This brings to seven the number of top civil servants leaving their job since the general election. The head […]
There is something rotten in the state of the UK and the man at the top of it is absent, reportedly in Scotland, uttering perhaps that “fair is foul and foul is fair” while bouncing his bonny baby on his knee. We were warned about Boris Johnson and yet the British electorate handed him a […]
Just eight months after securing an historic majority in the Commons, speculation is mounting as to how long Boris Johnson will remain in Number 10. Events have long since taken over the political agenda from Johnson and his Machiavellian chief advisor Dominic Cummings, neither of whom have seemed up to the task of effectively leading […]
Boris Johnson has been told to keep his “grubby, populist hands” off the judiciary following reports he is speeding up plans to curb the power of the courts to “extract revenge” for a humiliating legal defeat last autumn. Johnson is seeking to set up a panel to define in law the powers of the judicial […]
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has sacked his shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey for sharing an article containing “an antisemitic conspiracy theory”. Starmer’s intervention follows a call from the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) who condemned Long-Bailey’s action and told her to apologise for the tweet and delete it. Long-Bailey’s tweet called actor […]