Downing Street’s ‘greased piglet’ is losing his grip on power with the growing list of ministers abandoning Boris Johnson now standing at 27 (*and likely to be past 30 by the time this article has been written). Is this the first case of “sinking ships fleeing the rat?” mocked Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer today […]
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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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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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Anger is growing at the government’s failure to engage in talks to avoid the UK’s biggest rail strikes in three decades. Transport secretary Grant Shapps is insistent that it is not the role of the government to negotiate rail workers’ pay and working conditions with unions. Shapps dismissed claims the government wants the strikes to […]
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The Queen’s speech, outlining the government’s legislative programme, has been attacked by Labour for lacking any strategy, detail or ideas to deal with the cost of living crisis. While Boris Johnson effused about the need for legislation to “level-up” and “get Britain back on track”, Sir Keir Stamer said the speech showed the government is […]
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Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to resign if he’s fined by Durham police for beers and curry – a stance being covered as a ‘high-stakes-high-reward gamble’. The Labour leader is framed as trying to draw a clear distinction between himself and Boris Johnson, who faces more fines for more lockdown breaches – and eventually the […]
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Commons speaker Sir Lyndsay Hoyle has called for “radical” reform of parliament’s working practices following a series of scandals capped by the resignation of porn-watching Conservative MP Neil Parish. The speaker’s comments – in an article for today’s (May 1) Observer – come after a wave of sleaze, bullying and sex-scandals at Westminster that culminated […]
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Sir Keir Starmer has said P&O Ferries “must not be allowed to get away” with the “disgusting” sacking of 800 workers and replacing them with foreign staff. “It just makes my blood boil,” said the furious Labour leader. “It is a complete betrayal of the workforce. It’s just disgusting. “This is a company that had […]
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Russian oligarch billionaire Roman Abramovich has put Chelsea FC up for sale and written off £1.5 billion in loans to the club after being named by Sir Keir Starmer during Wednesday’s (March 2) PMQs. In the Commons, Starmer asked Johnson why Abramovich has not yet faced any sanctions, stating: “[H]e is a person of interest […]
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MPs have blamed Boris Johnson’s ‘political poison’ for the ugly scenes in Westminster on Monday (February 7) that saw Sir Keir Starmer bundled into the back of a police car to escape a mob of protestors. Tory MPs said their prime minister had endangered the leader of the opposition and called on Johnson to withdraw […]
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