A senior Tory tells me Liz Truss is 'finished' and 'lots of letters are going in'. But they don't wholly blame the Budget: 'We are angry because they are s**t, did not roll the pitch and cannot communicate the strategy so public feel frightened instead of reassured'
Labour’s chief whip Nick Brown has written to Jeremy Corbyn asking him to “unequivocally, unambiguously and without reservation” apologise for claiming that the scale of anti-Semitism in the party had been “dramatically overstated for political reasons” | More
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EXC Sir Keir Starmer, writing in the Mail, says he makes ‘absolutely zero apologies for being blunt’ about the Tory record on crime, as he doubles down on Labour’s attack ads
Dominic Cummings: ‘I said repeatedly from February/March: “If we don’t fire the Secretary of State (Matt Hancock) and if we don’t get the testing into someone else’s hands, we are going to kill people and it is going to be a catastrophe"’
I’m at the Media Freedom conference where Jeremy Hunt and Amal Clooney are due to give a press conference shortly. Somewhat ironically, only a handful of pre-selected journalists will be able to ask questions
In the letter, he also asks Jeremy Corbyn to confirm that he will remove or edit his response to the EHRC report - which he posted on Facebook - and asks for an assurance that he will cooperate fully with the party as it seeks to implement the EHRC's recommendations
I'm hugely excited to be joining the Daily Mail's brilliant lobby team as Chief Political Correspondent in early April after a fantastic six years at PA
Asked whether he lied to the Queen over the suspension of Parliament, Boris Johnson said: “Absolutely not. The High Court in England plainly agrees with us but the Supreme Court will have to decide”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace onboard NLV Pharos, a lighthouse tender, welcoming the announcement that engineering giant Babcock has been named the preferred bidder for the £1.3 billion contract to build a new fleet of Royal Navy frigates
EXC with
@JasonGroves1
: Tory former attorney general Sir Geoffrey Cox earned hundreds of thousands of pounds from a second job that saw him vote in Parliament remotely from the Caribbean
Harriet Line shapes solid credibility with deft strokes of iconography: time, space and language in a metronome, a book on the planets and a dictionary, thesaurus and New Words triple. Above, Bill Clinton gazes out like a guardian angel seeing the path ahead. Harriet is set fair.
Michael Gove tells the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee he's planning to reduce his use of single-use plastic for Lent, but what's that cup on his desk..?
Jeremy Hunt congratulates his Tory leadership rival Boris Johnson on becoming PM, and says: "I hope he's enjoying doing the job as much as I'm enjoying not doing the job"
Accidental / on purpose slip of the tongue by the Eurostar train guard as we pull into Brussels: “The Brexit, sorry exit, is at the front of the train”
A senior Conservative MP tells
@PA
: “We’d like to be in a Government that has the impression of being competent – rather than lurching from one issue to another and then after a short time doing a U-turn"
First day in Kyiv and surrounding areas covering the conflict and it’s devastating impact. I’ll be reporting from Ukraine over the next few weeks - any tips or story suggestions very welcome (DMs open)
Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle furious the PM is announcing his net zero plans during recess. Spox: 'If he had the power, the Speaker would recall the House immediately... This is a major policy shift, and it should have been announced when the House was sitting'
The Commons has been suspended until noon as Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt is currently unavailable to present details of the schedule for the coming days -
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The Tory rebels were: Heidi Allen, Guto Bebb, Richard Benyon, Ken Clarke, Jonathan Djanogly, Dominic Grieve, Stephen Hammond, Phillip Lee, Nicky Morgan, Robert Neill, Mark Pawsey, Antoinette Sandbach, Anna Soubry and Sarah Wollaston
Where is Liz Truss? Penny Mordaunt’s answers becoming more and more cryptic and confusing… ‘There are very serious matters as well as economic matters that are in the PM’s in tray’
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Chris Moncrieff, the former political editor of PA, who was hailed as “the one journalist who mattered” by former Prime Minister Tony Blair, has died after a short illness, his family said. He was 88
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt visits the Kibera slums in western Nairobi, Kenya, where he spoke to young people with HIV and AIDS who had been helped by a charity he set up 15 years ago
Sir Keir Starmer says he has 'concerns' about the implications of the SNP's 'self-ID' bill, telling
@bbclaurak
that 16-year-olds are too young to apply for a gender recognition certificate
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says the Government must ‘get off their hands’ to resolve industrial disputes. He tells ministers to ‘stop grandstanding and start governing’
Tory Brexiteers Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Sir Edward Leigh, Caroline Johnson and Andrew Murrison announce they will back the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal
PM’s message to coronavirus restriction sceptics: “To those who say we don’t need this stuff, and we should leave people to take their own risks, I say these risks are not our own. The tragic reality of having covid is that your mild cough can be someone else’s death knell.”
I’m hopping aboard the Conservative coach following
@BorisJohnson
for the next two weeks for
@PA
- stay tuned for tantalising updates from the campaign trail
Rishi Sunak, who claims to be a massive Saints fan, said he wants to see them beat 'United' this weekend...
But Saints are scheduled to face Leicester City tomorrow⚽️
Tory MP Robert Halfon sums up the Tory conference: 'There's no other way to say that things have been grim, grim at conference, and grim over the past week.'
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The Archbishop of Canterbury denounces the Illegal Migration Bill, telling peers it is an attempt at a 'short term fix' that risks 'great damage' to the UK's interests and reputation
🚨No 10 U-turns: ‘The Prime Minister has been contacted by NHS Test and Trace to say he is a contact of someone with Covid. He was at Chequers when contacted by Test and Trace and will remain there to isolate. He will not be taking part in the testing pilot.'
Lots of applause from Conservative members as Labour MP Kate Hoey speaks at her first Tory Party conference. She notes people are “much better dressed”
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