Fire brigades have been battling fires on the UK’s hottest ever day as temperatures passed 40C for the first time in history. Scientists are warning Monday and Tuesday’s unprecedented temperatures are a “wake up call” for governments to tackle the climate crisis, calling the UK’s 40.3C record high a “grim milestone”. Major incidents have been […]
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The prime minister will miss the second Cobra meeting about the Code Red heatwave because Boris Johnson is reportedly “preparing to party” at Chequers instead. Record breaking high temperatures – threatening thousands of deaths and a catastrophic impact on the country’s infrastructure – are expected on Monday and Tuesday (July 18 and 19). Downing Street […]
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The government’s flagship online safety bill – designed to protect children from harm – faces being scrapped due to a lack of Commons time and more Tory infighting. Online safety campaigners fear the next prime minister could scrap the bill completely amid reports it will be delayed for at least three months as Parliament rises […]
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Conservative MPs are circulating a “mucky memo” about Rishi Sunak as the race to succeed Boris Johnson in Number 10 descends “into all-out war”. Sunak is called a “schoolboy” and “liar” in the memo being shared by Conservative MPs on WhatsApp, which, the Telegraph reports, “is now spreading like wildfire”. The “dirty dossier” is linked […]
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Ian Blackford has slammed Sir Keir Starmer for “running scared of the Tories” and “offering no real change at all” after the Labour leader ruled out the UK rejoining the European Union single market or customs union under a Labour government. Starmer set out a five-point plan that he claims will “make Brexit work” by […]
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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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Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled plans for a Scottish independence referendum on October 19, 2023 and has referred herself to the UK’s highest court in an attempt to force the vote. Scotland’s first minister said her legal officer has been instructed to refer legislation for a “consultative” referendum to the UK Supreme Court in order to […]
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Boris Johnson’s premiership has been plunged into yet another crisis with the Conservative party chairman Oliver Dowden resigning in the immediate wake of double by-election defeats. The Liberal Democrats overturned a 24,000 Conservative majority in Tiverton and Honiton to inflict the Tories’ biggest by-election defeat in British political history. Labour piled on the pressure on […]
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On Wednesday, Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister, Dominic Raab introduced the much-anticipated Bill of Rights in Parliament. The Tory party had promised back in 2007 under David Cameron to replace Labour’s Human Rights Act. With the proposed legislation the government is seeking to curb the influence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). […]
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Under the new Renters’ Reform Bill, tenants have more rights, no-fault evictions are banned, and landlords can no longer discriminate against families or people on benefits. Moreover, tenants are allowed to keep pets, while landlords won’t be able to introduce steep rent hikes. The overhaul also stops fixed-term tenancy agreements allowing tenants to remain in […]
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