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2 years
BREAKING Roman Abramovich has been sanctioned by the Government and his asserts - including Chelsea Football Club - have been frozen Chelsea have been given a special licence to continue with football related activities but the sale effectively bars the sale of the club
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BREAKING Sainsbury's is rationing sale of *ALL* groceries People will be able to buy a maximum of THREE of any product Limit set at two for the most popular products Also: * 'Silver hour' for elderly in stores once a week * Priority access to delivery slots for elderly
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BREAKING: Boris Johnson pulls out of the Tory leadership contest He says he hoped he, Sunak and Mordaunt could come together and unite but they have been unable to do so
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Breaking: Nadhim Zahawi has not made an 'innocent error' in his tax affairs, head of HMRC has suggested Jim Harra told Public Accounts Committee that 'there are no penalties for innocent errors' 'If your error was result of carelessness then legislation says a penalty applies'
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EXCLUSIVE: I'm told that Kwasi Kwarteng is being sacked as Chancellor as Liz Truss prepares to reverse the mini-Budget Not clear who will be replacing him Events moving very, very quickly this morning No 10 not commenting
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EXCLUSIVE: I'm told that Boris Johnson is expected to stand in the Tory leadership contest He's taking soundings but is said to believe it is a matter of national interest
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EXCLUSIVE Nadine Dorries, a health minister, has become first MP to be diagnosed with coronavirus She has been in Westminster for past week, met hundreds of people, and attended a No 10 reception hosted by Boris Johnson on Thursday
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Breaking: Boris Johnson has warned Donald Trump against mounting strikes against cultural targets in Iran His official spokesman said their destruction is prohibited under the terms of the Hague convention, of which the US is a signatory
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The worst of Gray report: * Excessive drinking, staff being sick * Partying until 4.35am on eve of Prince Phillip's funeral * Red wine on walls * Abuse of cleaning staff & security staff * Warnings about parties ignored * Martin Reynolds: 'We seem to have got away with it'
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BREAKING John Bercow effectively bars Theresa May from tabling MV3 unless it has been substantially changed, citing 415-year-old precedent I can confirm that he gave the Govt *no notice* that he was about to do this Theresa May is learning this at the same time as us
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EXCLUSIVE with @oliver_wright Boris Johnson asked Sir Alex Allan to tone down report which found Priti Patel had bullied civil servants ‘He didn’t think Alex’s findings accorded with the evidence ‘He spoke to Alex and asked him if he’d change the tone of it. Alex said no’
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Number 10 admitting that it instigated a face-to-face meeting between Boris Johnson and Sue Gray in April Follows extraordinary briefing against Gray on eve of publication of her report People in No 10 & across Whitehall have been aghast at the briefing today
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BREAKING: Liz Truss has appointed Dominic Johnson, Tory donor & co-founder of Somerset Capital with Rees-Mogg, as trade minister Announcement quietly dropped on He's being handed a peerage to boot Confirms @fletcherr scoop
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Exclusive with @oliver_wright Boris Johnson suggested Sue Gray should drop her full report given police investigation during secret meeting earlier this month, Times told He is said to have asked her if there was much point in publishing it given that ‘it’s all out there’
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Tuesday’s TIMES: “Partying PM ‘misled Commons’ “. #TomorrowsPapersToday
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C4 privatisation backlash from Tories in full swing: Tom Tugendhat says he's 'pretty doubtful' Damian Green says it's 'very unconservative Jeremy Hunt says it risks public service broadcasting Ruth Davidson says it's the 'opposite of levelling up'
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Sajid Javid says Dominic Cummings should apologise * He does not believe journey to Durham was 'necessary of justified' * Says he is 'unconvinced' journey to Barnard Castle was reasonable * Says he is 'deeply concerned' by decision to return to No 10 despite wife's illness
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Boris Johnson is stable, Dominic Raab says He is breathing without assistance and has not required any mechanical or non-invasive respiratory support
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Here's the full cast-list for the PM's meeting at Chequers, which is taking place at 3pm: Boris Johnson Dominic Raab Jacob Rees-Mogg David Davis Iain Duncan Smith Damian Green Expect PM to be pushed on timetable for her departure and need to embrace no-deal
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Chronology of the madness: * Graham Stuart told by No 10 to announce 3-line whip suspended * Nobody told chief whip Wendy Morton, who quit on spot * Deputy chief whip Craig Whittaker also gone, he's 'absolutely fucking furious' * Truss barracked by own MPs in voting lobby
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TWO male Tory MPs have been accused of watching pornography on phones in Commons One MP said she had seen same colleague watching pornography in both Commons and at a committee Another Tory MP said she had seen a colleague watching pornography and tried to take a photo
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Boris Johnson says that when it comes to distinguishing a man and a woman 'the basic facts of biology remain overwhelmingly important'
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Exclusive: Privileges Committee has found Boris Johnson knowingly misled Commons after rejecting central defence MPs found no evidence to back his claim he was assured by officials that Covid guidance had not been breached - in fact they found opposite
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Exclusive: No 10 Christmas party was planned for 3 weeks with WhatsApp invitations sent while UK was in full lockdown Invitations circulated at end of Nov asking people to attend press office ‘secret Santa’ event with exchange of gifts + cheese & wine
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Pretty extraordinary intervention by David Cameron on the day of Rishi Sunak's speech: * Says that scrapping the northern leg of HS2 is a mistake that 'throws away years of political consensus' * Accuses Sunak of acting against Britain's long-term national interests * Says a
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Today’s decision on HS2 is the wrong one. It will help to fuel the views of those who argue that we can no longer think or act for the long-term as a country; that we are heading in the wrong direction. HS2 was about investing for the long-term, bringing the country together,
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Lord Brownlow paid total of £112,549 towards the renovation of Boris Johnson's Downing Street flat PM messaged Lord Brownlow directly over Whatsapp to ask for more money for the refurbishment at one point Junior member of CCHQ staff who queried donation was told 'don't worry'
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EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson has been unable to give the Covid inquiry Whatsapp messages from his old iPhone because he has forgotten passcode Government security experts trying to establish if they can stop the iPhone erasing itself if passcode is wrong
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Sir Alan Duncan has quit as a foreign minister He handed in his resignation letter this morning He's made clear he can't serve under a Boris Johnson premiership
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Exclusive: Keir Starmer to announce generation of new towns as he sets out plans for a 'decade of renewal' He will pledge to build Georgian-style townhouses in urban areas Labour will release low-quality green belt for housing - he calls it grey belt
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The Red Wall plot to remove Boris Johnson - with Tory MPs meeting to discuss submitting letters - is not going down well in Cabinet 'It's pretty sickening. They were only elected because of him. Most of them are a load of fucking nobodies. It's nuts'
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EXCLUSIVE Labour has a **17 point** lead over the Tories, Yougov poll for The Times finds It's the biggest lead since Yougov started polling in 2001 Six in 10 voters think Kwarteng's budget was unfair - the worst rating of any fiscal event since 2010
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Exclusive: Tory rebels who want to oust Boris Johnson consider releasing secretly recorded conversation with chief whip & text messages after accusing Govt of blackmail & intimidation
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Whitehall sources told The Times that Boris Johnson asked Sir Alex Allan to change his report to state that there was not clear evidence of bullying at home office Sir Alex refused and said he’s quit if the PM overruled him - which is exactly what happened today
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A spokesman for Liz Truss claims that Rishi Sunak is not fit for office: 'Rishi Sunak has tonight proven he is not fit for office 'His aggressive mansplaining and shouty private school behaviour is desperate, unbecoming and is a gift to Labour'
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Boris Johnson was tonight asked by a Tory MP at the 1922 committee if he has become a prisoner of No 10 There's a concern view on Tory backbenches that the No 10 team rather than the PM are in charge MPs say he didn't answer the question directly
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Breaking: Keir Starmer is now explicitly accusing Boris Johnson of breaking the law by attending Downing Street garden party on May 20, 2020 'I'm clear in my own mind that he has broken the rules, broken the law'
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EXCLUSIVE: Rishi Sunak is poised to announce minimum strike legislation as soon as tomorrow It will enable employers to sue unions and sack employees if they refuse to accept Hearing six sectors covered - NHS, schools, rail, borders, fire, nuclear
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Here’s Jacob Rees-Mogg on the Boris Johnson burka row: ‘It's hard to see what he should apologise for. He has defended people's right to wear the burka whilst saying it is an inelegent garment. Neither of those two proposals are unreasonable’
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Exclusive: No 10 has blocked a public information campaign encouraging people to save energy Jacob Rees-Mogg signed off plans for campaign with potential £15m budget in recent days No 10 rejected it today amid claims Truss is ideologically opposed
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THE TIMES: Gas import threat puts UK at risk of blackouts #TomorrowsPapersToday
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New: Jacob Rees-Mogg says that the 20 Tory ministers who abstained tonight in bid to take no deal off the table should quit: ‘Collective responsibility requires ministers to support government policy or to resign. It is a basic constitutional point’
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EXCLUSIVE: Labour has surged to biggest lead over Tories for nearly a decade, Yougov/ Times poll finds Labour: 43 Conservatives: 28 Lib Dem: 11 The 15 point lead is the biggest for Labour since February 2013 in wake of omnishambles budget
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Breaking: Boris Johnson has axed plans for televised White House-style press conferences Allegra Stratton, his press secretary, will become his spokeswoman for COP26 The £2.6m No 9 briefing room will instead be used by the PM, ministers and officials
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Why has Boris Johnson made a last minute submission to the Privileges Committee given he has pre-emptively rejected it as a 'witch hunt', a 'political hit-job', a 'kangaroo court', 'egregiously biased'....? If he has lost faith in the process why is he engaging with it?
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EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak *did not* strike a deal last night Johnson told his supporters this morning that he is the only candidate with a democratic mandate He said he wants to form a Govt that will reach 'far and wide'
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Extraordinary Nadhim Zahawi today told Boris Johnson he should resign Tomorrow he's agreed to launch a new economic plan alongside Boris Johnson in a bid to shore up his leadership according to @SkyNews Today is bewildering by any metric
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BREAKING Sir Alex Allen has quit as the prime minister's adviser on the ministerial code Comes after PM expressed full confidence in Priti Patel 'I feel that it is right that I should now resign from my position as the Prime Minister’s independent adviser on the Code'
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Breaking: James Cleverly has sacked David Neal, the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration The home office claims he 'breached the terms of appointment and lost the confidence of the home secretary' It comes after he said that 'high risk' passengers are being
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Nadhim Zahawi committed SEVEN breaches of the ministerial code and repeatedly failed to be 'open & honest' about his tax affairs, ethics watchdog concluded Sunak felt he had no choice but to sack him Here's the timeline of those breaches in full
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BREAKING: Rishi Sunak is holding a full cabinet call at 7.45 this evening Ministers believe it’s about UK and US military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen Move has been heavily telegraphed by Grant Shapps and by senior figures in the US. It is thought UK aircraft and Navy
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Why is UK lagging behind the EU on sanctions? The EU has sanctioned 25 individuals including two with major UK interests - Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman The UK has sanctioned just 11 oligarchs & individuals with links to Putin - none of whom have significant assets in UK
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BREAKING: Tory MPs have been told that the government *will not* try to vote down Labour's humble address on PPE contracts linked to Michelle Mone Means that the motion - which is trying to force the publication of texts and emails - will pass unopposed
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Big queue of 100+ people ahead of me at the polling station in marginal Battersea There’s 50 odd people behind me too #GE2019 🗳
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BREAKING: Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, says that the emergency intervention in the bond markets WILL come to an end on Friday He tells pension funds, which are heavily invested in UK debt: 'You've only got three days left now. You've got to get this done'
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BREAKING: The Privileges Committee says Boris Johnson would have been suspended for ***90 days*** if he had still been an MP It says his denials 'were so disingenuous that they were deliberate attempts to mislead the Committee' It says he should not get a former members pass
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BREAKING: Rishi Sunak WILL NOT recall Parliament tomorrow to discuss the British military intervention against Houthi positions in Yemen, which is expected to take place tonight It means that there will be no debate or discussion in Parliament until Monday Picking up disquiet
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BREAKING: Joe Biden, the US President, is expected to make a statement tonight in the wake of military strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen The strikes are expected shortly, with a series of carefully choreographed statements from the US, the UK and other international
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Arlene Foster says that Angela Merkel's comments have revealed the 'real objective of Dublin and the EU' 'The PM's proposals have flushed out Dublin's real intentions Northern Ireland in the EU customs union forever 'We will not accept any such ultimatum or outcome'
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BREAKING Govt to table emergency legislation that will *retrospectively* end automatic early release for 220 convicted terrorists currently behind bars An extraordinary step - legislation could go down this week Ministers braced for legal challenge but determined to push ahead
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BREAKING: Tories on course for a worse result at general election than John Major's defeat in 1997, new Yougov MRP poll finds Labour poised to take 403 seats, Tories reduced to 155. Starmer expected to get 154 majority The result is *worse* for the Tories than the last MRP
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BREAKING: Boris Johnson facing fight for political future after Privileges Committee found he misled Parliament & recommended sanction of more than 10 days The sanction in the draft report would be enough to trigger a by-election in Johnson's Uxbridge & South Ruislip seat
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Boris Johnson has been unable to supply Covid inquiry with any of his Whatsapp messages for almost entire of first lockdown Experts have been unable to retrieve any of his messages from January 31, 2020 to June 7, 2020 Source close to Johnson says he didn’t delete them from his
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BREAKING: Kemi Badenoch weighing up whether to change legal definition of sex to 'biological sex' in equality act Badenoch asked EHRC to consider 'benefits or otherwise' It could bar trans women from accessing single sex spaces and competing as women
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Exclusive: Liz Truss is shelving Michael Gove's plans to end no-fault evictions, which were due to be introduced in this Parliamentary session The Times has been told that they are not considered a priority & could be killed off entirely, despite being a manifesto commitment
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Boris Johnson furious over Sue Gray move to Labour He thinks it calls validity of her entire partygate report into question Friend of Boris: 'The entire edifice of partygate was manufactured scandal intended to bring down Brexit backing PM with connivance of Labour'
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Boris Johnson has told colleagues that neither Penny Mordaunt nor Rishi Sunak are prepared to do a deal He's reached out to both During their call Mordaunt suggested that *he* should drop out rather than her as she is the second preference for most of his supporters
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EXCLUSIVE with @elliotttimes Boris Johnson is preparing to introduce national lockdown restrictions from next Wednesday The restrictions could see everything except nurseries, schools, universities and non-essential shops close until Dec 1 PM presser on Monday
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This does not augur well for Boris Johnson After tetchy exchanges with Bernard Jenkin over whether leaving drinks were 'necessary for work purposes', Jenkin says: 'I don't think we agree with your interpretation of guidance' This is at the heart of allegations he misled Commons
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Breaking: Lord Evans, head of Public Standards Committee & former head of MI5, says Owen Paterson vote was 'very serious & very damaging moment for Parliament' He says committee to overhaul standards chaired by Tory is 'deeply at odds with best traditions of British democracy'
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Exclusive: Wendy Morton, former chief whip, is escalating her complaint against Gavin Williamson amid concerns about ‘whitewash’ by Conservative Party She’s referring it to Independent Complaints & Grievance Scheme, which investigates most serious cases
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NEW The Chief Whip has confronted John Bercow in the Chamber moments ago and warned that his decision to accept the Grieve amendment has damaged Parliament. Bercow apparently responded by saying that he wouldn't be 'bullied' by Government whips
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Exclusive: Tory support has fallen to lowest level since 2019 election in wake of National Insurance hike, Yougov poll for Times finds Labour has taken a lead over Tories for first time since January this year Lab: 35 (+1) Con: 33 (-5) Lib Dem: 10 (+2)
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BREAKING Boris Johnson is standing down as the Tory MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, triggering an immediate by-election Comes after Privileges Committee recommended suspension of more than 10 days
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Boris Johnson engaged in a call and response with Cabinet this morning: PM: How many hospitals are we going to build? Cabinet in unison: 40 PM: Well done. How many more police officers? Cabinet: 20,000 PM: That's right. How many more nurses? Cabinet: 50,000 PM: Exactly
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Exclusive: Attorney-General has approved the scrapping of large parts of the NI Protocol Suella Braverman has told PM & senior ministers that EU is undermining Good Friday Agreement by creating trade barrier & fuelling civil unrest
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Ian Austin announces he won’t be standing at the general election and tells voters to back Boris Johnson ‘It’s really come to something when I tell decent, patriotic Labour voters that they should be voting for Boris Johnson at the election’ He says Corbyn is unfit to be PM
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. @JustinOnWeb says Boris Johnson's claim the BBC is more critical of Rwanda migrants plan than Putin is 'smokescreen' 'Can you come up with an occasion when Boris Johnson has put his life on the line for the truth, as Lyse Doucet has, as Jeremy Bowen has, as Clive Myrie has?'
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Boris Johnson on Parliament: 'If Parliament were a school, Ofsted would shut it down 'If Parliament were a reality TV show whole lot of us would have been voted out of jungle 'But at least we'd have had consolation of watching Speaker being forced to eat kangaroo testicle'
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BREAKING: Sounds like Rishi Sunak is pressing ahead with plans to change the definition of sex in the Equality Act to biological sex Source close to Sunak says he 'remains committed to his campaign pledge' and he will support Badenoch in 'taking that work forward'
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Sir John Curtice warns Rishi Sunak will find it 'extremely difficult' to turn Tory electoral fortunes around as party faces potential landslide defeat in 2024 Tories have lost ground 'across the whole of the electorate' and are no longer trusted by public to run the country
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EXCLUSIVE: MI5 secretly warned Conservative Party that two of its potential candidates to become MPs could be spies for China Security service contacted party about two individuals in 2021 and 2022 and advised they should not be on candidate list
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Exclusive: Boris Johnson poised to trigger repeal of European Communities Act as he cements his do or die pledge to leave EU on Oct 31 Stephen Barclay to sign 'commencement order' within days enabling EU withdrawal act to come into force Eurosceptics say it is 'totemic' moment
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BREAKING Boris Johnson allies up the ante and warn they will obstruct Rishi Sunak’s government unless he intervened to stop what they see as a ‘witch hunt’ They say it’s the ‘final straw’ for Johnson and warn that MPs and members supportive of former PM will begin organising
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Dom Cummings last night told Govt advisers that if Brussels says no next week then ‘we’re gone’ ‘If EU says no then we are not going to do what the last lot did and change our negotiating position ‘If we don’t get anything next week, we are gone’
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Breaking: Boris Johnson is *still* refusing to accept that law has been broken over Downing Street parties despite 20 fines being issued PM’s official spokesman refuses to endorse Raab’s assertion that law was broken and that PM was wrong to say in Commons no rules were broken
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Breaking: William Wragg accuses government of blackmail & intimidation over treatment of Tory rebels He urges rebels to go to the police He accuses Govt of breaching ministerial code by threatening to withdraw investments in constituencies
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BREAKING: Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are unlikely to do Sky News leadership debate They're said to want to focus on the MPs' hustings in the run up to the final vote on Wednesday There's also concern that the two brutal debates so far have been incredibly damaging for Tories
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breaking: Suella Braverman forwarded work emails to her personal phone on SIX occasions None were secret - she says she did it so she could read them while doing video calls on work phone
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Liz Truss's budget ripped to shreds: * Two-year energy price cap - GONE * Income tax cut - GONE * Scrapping 45p rate - GONE * Freezing corporation tax - GONE * Freezing alcohol duties - GONE * VAT free shopping for int tourists - GONE * Dividend & freelance reforms - GONE
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Flight tracker from Dominican Republic anyone?
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BREAKING: Breaches of coronavirus guidance would have been 'obvious' to Boris Johnson at several events he attended, privileges committee says It has highlighted several events where Johnson was present without social distancing and published pictures
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Breaking: Boris Johnson is severing ties with the government-appointed lawyers representing him at the Covid inquiry after he was referred to police He has lost 'confidence' in the Cabinet Office He's going to appoint his own legal team who will be funded by the taxpayer
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Jacob Rees-Mogg on Philip Hammond: 'As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. 'The Treasury is desperate to stop Brexit. Everything the Treasury does has to be read in this light'
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Dominic Grieve signals he is prepared to vote against Govt if Jeremy Corbyn tables confidence motion 'If it is impossible to prevent prorogation then I think it is going to be very difficult for people like myself to keep confidence in the government'
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Steven Swinford
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Breaking: The Privileges Committee report is... big Told it comes in at nearly 30,000 words, with extensive annexes detailing evidence Boris Johnson's latest response will be appended to the document with a response from the committee It's expected to drop at 9am tomorrow
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@Steven_Swinford
Steven Swinford
2 years
Boris Johnson was told FIVE times about Chris Pincher’s behaviour: July 2019: During 1st reshuffle Late 2019: Told when FCDO investigation started Late 2019: Told when FCDO investigation concluded Feb 2020: Told again at reshuffle Feb 2021: Told by propriety & ethics team
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@Steven_Swinford
Steven Swinford
1 year
Exclusive: Rishi Sunak will be forced by the Lords to abandon plans for a bonfire of EU laws by end of year Senior govt source says it is 'inevitable' govt will have to extend deadline for retaining, scrapping or changing laws from 2023 to 2026
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Steven Swinford
3 years
All of which leads to a question: Is it really incumbent on officials to tell the Prime Minister that the cost of refurbishing his flat was met by a Tory donor? There’s an argument that Lord Geidt is placing a higher burden of probity on officials than he is on the PM himself
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@Steven_Swinford
Steven Swinford
4 years
The EU argues the one year business rates holiday is a selective because it goes to specific sectors - retail, leisure and hospitality It says it needs to be available to all businesses as a general measure to comply with state aid rules UK intends to push ahead regardless
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@Steven_Swinford
Steven Swinford
11 months
Exclusive: Sir Keir Starmer will be able to appoint Sue Gray as his chief of staff in the Autumn Acoba has rejected government push for 18 months worth of restrictions and recommended six months of gardening leave instead
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@Steven_Swinford
Steven Swinford
4 years
Breaking: Taylor Wimpey, one of Britain’s biggest housebuilding companies, has announced work on its construction sites will restart from May 4th It’s the first of the major house builders to announce that construction will restart Britain’s economy slowly starting to reopen
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@Steven_Swinford
Steven Swinford
5 years
Iain Duncan Smith says he's never seen anything like tonight's events: 'I have never in 27 years as an MP seen anything like what is happening in Govt now. 'How can Govt continue if collective responsibility has broken down and when whipped ministers deliberately abstain?'
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