Sir Keir Starmer is calling on the prime minister to “get a grip” again – this time over the Nadine Dorries affair with the Conservative MP still drawing her salary more than two months after announcing she was quitting “with immediate effect”. Nadine Dorries has an extraordinary charge sheet which includes not speaking in the […]
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Gavin Williamson, the current education secretary and former chief whip has long been labelled ‘Stupid Boy’. He looked set to be banished from the cabinet to the backbenches after a disastrous summer following the exams and results fiasco that caused misery and chaos for students and pupils. He has managed to hang on, yet Williamson […]
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Brexiters led by Sir Iain Duncan Smith are calling for the EU Withdrawal Agreement to be rewritten if not abandoned because it keeps the UK “hooked into the EU’s loan book.” The former Tory leader was a fervent supporter of the prime minister’s “oven ready” deal which was rushed through parliament after December’s general election […]
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The government’s warning to the BBC that the broadcaster risks losing public confidence amid accusations of political bias during the coronavirus crisis is ringing hollow. Culture secretary Oliver Dowden’s letter to the BBC’s director-general Lord Tony Hall urges him to “uphold the highest standards in relation to integrity and impartiality” while warning “any damage” to […]
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