Downing Street has been rocked by a wave of resignations from the prime minister’s team with a fifth advisor announcing their’s this morning (February 4). In just a few hours, Boris Johnson lost four key members of his leadership team, starting with head of policy Munira Mirza’s shock exit. Hers was quickly followed by the […]
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Downing Street has denied speaking to the Metropolitan Police force about the Sue Gray report which faces further delays following police intervention. The Metropolitan Police has told Sue Gray’s inquiry into illegal lockdown parties in Downing Street that its report can only make “minimal reference” to events that the police are investigating – further delaying […]
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The prime minister of the United Kingdom is not unwell, according to a statement from his spokesperson who insists Boris Johnson “is focused on the issues that we face as we come up to the winter months and delivering on important changes like social care.” Johnson is “well and he is focused on delivering for […]
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the UK economy is entering a “new age of optimism” as he delivered a budget that Labour said only benefitted “bankers on short haul flights sipping champagne”. Sunak said the government’s tax and spending plans – details below – are focused on the “post-Covid” era and will pave the way for […]
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The UK recorded 52,009 new Covid cases in the latest 24 hours – the first time the number has topped 50,000 in three months and the highest since July 17 – representing a 17.9% increase in the last seven days. The daily number of patients admitted to hospital with coronavirus (data provided on October 17) […]
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Andy McDonald has been accused of sabotage after his resignation as shadow employment secretary plunged the Labour party conference into disarray. McDonald – described as the last Corbynite in Sir Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet – quit over the leadership’s failure to support a £15-per-hour minimum wage with a damning claim the party is “more divided […]
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Conservative prime minister Boris Johnson and his chancellor Rishi Sunak are holding secret meetings with elite Tory donors who are part of an“Advisory Board” of members who have given at least £250,000 to the Conservative party. The meetings are reported to be part of Tory co-chair Ben Elliot’s “mission to modernise” the party’s fundraising efforts […]
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For the first time in its 167 year history, the Met Office issued an “amber extreme heat warning” for parts of the UK with the sweltering temperatures set to peak on Thursday at over 33C. The country bakes but Boris Johnson may be feeling the heat more than most after a truly surreal turn of […]
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Boris Johnson has confirmed almost all coronavirus restrictions in England are expected to end on July 19 signalling a huge shift in the government’s strategy for dealing with the pandemic. However, the prime minister also warned that coronavirus cases are predicted to be at 50,000 a day by the end of the month and said […]
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The very latest in a saga-length series of tumultuous weeks for Boris Johnson has been capped with a typically braggadocios vow to “rocket boost” his manifesto promises after a humiliating by-election defeat. For the first time since the last time was papered over, sizable cracks of concern are appearing for the prime minister after an […]
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