Incredible. When I told Boris Johnson three years ago that his Voter ID law would stop people from being able to vote he told me I was talking "total nonsense"
Now Sky News reports he was turned away from voting for "failing to bring acceptable voter ID"
Keir Starmer on Conservative ministers comparing Boris Johnson’s Partygate fine to a speeding ticket:
"As it happens the last minister who got aspeeding ticket and then lied about it ended up in prison. And I know about it because I prosecuted him."
Rishi Sunak tells MPs it is impossible to “artificially” hold down energy prices.
In other news, Shell today announced their profits have increased by fourteen-fold and they plan to hand $8.5 billion back to shareholders.
It says a lot about the political culture in the UK that the only person who has faced any consequences for Dominic Cummings' actions is a journalist who pointed them out.
A reminder that if Paddington were a human being who had come to the UK by boat, rather than a fictional bear, the Mail would be demanding his immediate removal to Rwanda.
Grant Shapps, who used a fake name in order to pose as a "millionaire web marketer" running a get-rich-quick scheme, and then lied about it for three years, is now in charge of law, order and security in the UK.
BBC interviewer: "If Gary Lineker had said to Suella Braverman, 'I support your migrant policy. I back it. It is brilliant.' Would you have removed him from air for that?"
BBC Director General Tim Davie: "I'm not going to get into hypotheticals..."
Sunak asks a homeless man in a homeless shelter whether he "works in business", then proceeds to talk about the financial services industry. Utterly bizarre
Rishi Sunak, who held a green card requiring him to declare himself a permanent US resident, and who also benefited from his wife's non-dom tax status, while being listed as a beneficiary of her Cayman Island trust, says his patriotism to the UK is "non-negotiable".
Rishi Sunak needs to explain why, if breaking the ministerial code is now a sacking offence, that he chose to reinstate Suella Braverman just days after she was found to have broken it.
Liz Truss says she is "the first prime minister of our country to have gone to a comprehensive school."
Both Gordon Brown and Theresa May went to comprehensive schools.
Gavin Williamson, who was sacked by Theresa May over allegations of leaking information from a National Security Council meeting and then sacked by Boris Johnson after presiding over the exams and school closure fiascos, given a knighthood for his services to the nation.
"Some people used to sneer at wind power... and say it wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding," says Boris Johnson, who used to sneer at wind power, and say it wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding.
Angela Rayner says it's ironic that the Speaker has to intervene to stop the "mob" of Conservative MPs shouting her down in the House of Commons, while the government brings in a law to stop people noisily protesting against them outside.
#pmqs
Boris Johnson's spokesman says the Prime Minister will transform the NHS into "a blockbuster health care system in the age of Netflix."
Asked repeatedly to explain what this means, Johnson's spokesman is unable to say which features of Netflix he believes the NHS should imitate.
Amazing to think that Boris Johnson spent £2.6 million on this room for daily televised press briefings and the only clip we'll ever see from them is when his Press Secretary joked about when they all broke the law.
Priti Patel says she would offer a security briefing to the opposition but she is "very sceptical of how they treat and respect security advice."
A reminder that Patel was previously sacked from government after holding unauthorised meetings with a foreign government.
BREAKING: The London Fire Brigade has declared a major incident in response to the surge in fires across the capital as temperatures exceed 40C.
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Boris Johnson, who called black Africans “picanninies,” Muslim women “letterboxes” and said the problem with Africa is that "we are not in charge any more,” releases report saying institutional racism doesn’t exist in the UK.
So the Metropolitan Police appears to have concluded that Boris Johnson somehow legally attended what they otherwise judged to be illegal gatherings, and that while he didn't break the law for attending those illegal events, other more junior officials did.
So to summarise, the Government has just announced plans to scrap the biggest public transport infrastructure project planned for any Northern city, while taking part in its conference in that same city, which its Chancellor chose to travel to by plane.
I'm not saying the Conservative leadership contest is going badly, but they just cancelled tonight's televised debate because they want to stop any more members of the public from seeing it happening.
Andrew Neil helped front the BBC's political coverage for many years while also regularly sharing his own (very right-wing) views on Twitter. It never once splashed newspaper front pages, or led BBC news bulletins
Rishi Sunak's closing statement boasting of his own "competence" and "seriousness" would have been more effective were he not sitting in front of a sign which misspells the word 'campaign'.
The Mail says Keir Starmer "flouted lockdown guidance" at the start of September 2020, by being given a birthday cake.
The UK wasn't in lockdown at the start of September 2020.
A reminder of when Boris Johnson said he was "furious" to see footage of staff joking about holding illegal parties in Downing Street.
All the while he knew he had attended them himself.
"Labour's plan is always to raise taxes," says Boris Johnson, whose government last year raised taxes by a higher amount than any other government in almost three decades.
#PMQs
Asked to sum up how she feels about Boris Johnson as a person, Angela Merkel replies: "We look at each other, we look at how different people can be and we make the best of it...."
"I abhor bullying," says Boris Johnson who point-blank refused to act when an official investigation found the Home Secretary Priti Patel was guilty of it
#PMQs
Dominic Raab accuses Angela Rayner of being a "champagne socialist" for attending Glyndebourne.
Heaven forbid a working class woman should enjoy watching opera.
#pmqs
BBC Director General Tim Davie, who was previously a Conservative Party candidate and Deputy Chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative party, says that forcing Gary Lineker to step aside is about "delivering on impartiality"
I'm not saying UK media and politics is too narrow and insular, but the Prime Minister's sister has her own national radio show, in which she interviews the Prime Minister's father about the Prime Minister's government.
"I would say we have to blame the Government!"
Stanley Johnson tells Rachel Johnson the Government is responsible for the huge increase in raw sewage being released into the UK's waterways.
@RachelSJohnson
"The old concepts of fighting big tank battles on European land mass are over," said Boris Johnson last November, as he mocked the idea of armed conflict returning to Europe.
Boris Johnson, who until a few years ago owned a £3.75 million Islington townhouse with his former wife, who is a lawyer, repeatedly attacks Keir Starmer for being a lawyer from Islington.
#PMQs
Gavin Williamson tells MPs he threatened to sue Greenwich Council for closing schools early because “at that stage none of us were aware of the new variant.”
In fact the Health Secretary had already told MPs about the new variant before he sent out his legal threat.
GB News presenter Dan Wootton used multiple fake identities to trick and bribe scores of men into revealing compromising sexual material.
The victims included members of the public, his own colleagues and a senior executive at News UK
So in summary Boris Johnson has gone from:
1) Denying there were parties
2) Saying that even if parties happened, no-one broke any rules
3) Saying he personally didn’t break rules
4) Admitting he attended a party
5) Denying knowledge the party he attended was a party.
#PMQs
YouGov gives Labour a 15-point lead.
LAB: 43%
CON: 28%
LD: 11%
GRN: 7%
SNP: 5%
REF: 4%
If repeated at a general election Labour would get a 126 seat majority.
Conservative MPs losing their seats would include Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Grant Shapps and Dominic Raab.
Sadiq Khan on the balloon blimp of him which has been crowdfunded by far-right activists:
"If people want to spend their Saturday looking at me in a yellow bikini they’re welcome to do so – I don’t really think yellow’s my colour though."
If you mean we're outside the EU with low growth, high inflation and a government that wants to bring back imperial measurements and grammar schools, then yes.
As Sun columnist Rod Liddle is brought onto Newsnight to talk about Huw Edwards' alleged behaviour towards young people, here's a reminder of what he's written himself on the subject.
As the new asylum ban is condemned by international human rights groups, the Children's Commissioner, and the UN, the BBC leads its news bulletins on... Government criticism of Gary Lineker
Laughter in the House of Commons as the Paymaster General Michael Ellis says that "the Prime Minister maintains the highest standards in public life, and will continue to do so."
Laughter breaks out in the House of Commons as Cabinet Office Minister Nigel Adams tells MPs “there is no link between party donations and nominations to sit in the House of Lords."
SNP MP Brendan O’Hara: “I admire the minister’s ability to say that with a straight face."
This is absolutely shocking. Suella Braverman refused to let people in a dangerously overfilled migrant detention centre be moved elsewhere, leading "directly to overcrowding and outbreaks of scabies and diphtheria".
Nadine Dorries' local town council writes to her to raise their "concerns and frustration" at the "continuing lack of representation for the people of Mid-Bedfordshire at Westminster". They demand she "immediately vacate" her seat and allow someone else to represent the area.
Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nadine Dorries tell the BBC that Liz Truss is "as strong a Brexiteer as both of us."
Here she is in 2016, saying that Brexit would be a disaster.
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Piers Morgan says his NewsUK show will be “a place that celebrates the right of everyone to have an opinion, and for those opinions to be vigorously examined and challenged."
Snap poll by Opinium finds:
- Two thirds of voters (64%) want Boris Johnson to resign following the Sue Gray report.
- 83% believe he broke lockdown rules
- 75% believe he is not telling the truth.
Rishi Sunak's attempt to mock Starmer for being a supposedly out-of-touch elite North Londoner, would be somewhat more convincing if he didn't himself own a £7m mansion in Kensington, a £1m 'pied-à-terre' nearby, a manor house in Yorkshire and a £5.5m penthouse in Santa Monica.
"Paid lobbying is wrong and members found guilty of it should pay the appropriate penalties,” says Jacob Rees-Mogg, who just two weeks ago told all Conservative MPs to vote to stop someone guilty of paid lobbying from paying the appropriate penalties.
The man pictured on the right here with Boris Johnson, during his holiday in Greece, is Henry Newman.
Boris Johnson claimed he was "interviewing" Newman during the infamous 'ABBA party' in his Downing Street flat that he avoided a fine for.
BREAKING: Boris Johnson's spokesman says the Cabinet Secretary will *only* investigate the alleged Downing Street party on December 18th, which the prime minister did not attend, and not any other party, including the one he reportedly *did* attend.
Suella Braverman fails to turn up to the House of Commons to answer the Urgent Question on the Government's treatment of refugee children and overcrowding at Manston.
Not a single admission of having done anything wrong, or of having any regrets, in Boris Johnson's resignation statement, but he does take the time to blame Conservative MPs for their "eccentric" decision to remove him.
Incredibly graceless statement.
Conservative MP Desmond Swayne says the “carnage” on UK roads is “certainly killing more people than Covid at the moment”.
For context there were just 1,460 deaths on British roads in the whole of 2020, compared to more than 4,000 deaths of people with Covid last month alone.
Conservative Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson says one family in his local constituency who regularly uses his local food bank, he also sees in McDonalds "two or three times a week."
How is this even possible? Does he have them under surveillance?
Jacob Rees-Mogg is asked whether he thinks the leader of the Welsh Conservatives is also “a lightweight figure” and is then challenged to name him.
Mogg: “The Secretary of State for Wales is called Simon Hart.”
The leader of the Welsh Conservatives is Andrew RT Davies.
"We should not tolerate bullying in our society" and give people "the courage to speak out," says Boris Johnson, who ignored a report showing Priti Patel had bullied her staff, after they spoke out.
#pmqs
For some reason Boris Johnson's press secretary Allegra Stratton won't say whether he agrees with the Scottish Conservatives that a politician who misleads Parliament should have to resign.
The Good Law Project has written to the Metropolitan Police threatening legal action for its continued refusal to investigate Downing Street for holding parties during lockdown.
Comparisons with 1930s Germany are not acceptable, says national broadcaster, as it complies with demands from the ruling party to take a prominent government critic off air.
A reminder of when Boris Johnson said he was "furious" to see footage of staff joking about holding parties in Downing Street.
All the while he knew he had attended multiple such parties himself.
The Conservative party “don’t do deals with other parties,” says Boris Johnson, whose government is currently propped up by the DUP and was previously propped up by the Lib Dems
#marr
So this is the second time in just five years that Conservative MP Chris Pincher has had to resign from the whips office over sexual misconduct allegations, yet we're told the party is happy for him to keep the whip because he's "done the right thing" by admitting it.