HARRY COLE: Here comes the girls! Boris Johnson promotes first of his rising star female MPs By Harry Cole For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:45 GMT, 23 February 2020 | Updated: 08:41 GMT, 23 February 2020 Boris Johnson has promoted the first swathe of rising-star female MPs from the 2019 intake. Fourteen Tories first elected … Read more
‘Don’t wobble’ plea to PM over third runway: Fears that Boris will use court defeat as an excuse to shelve £14bn Heathrow project Judges last year gave the green light for Heathrow’s third runway to be built But opponents will this week find out if they have won legal fight to block it PM Boris … Read more
‘It’s going to be tense’: Emmanuel Macron casts doubt on Boris Johnson’s hopes of striking a Brexit trade deal by December and sets stage for showdown over fisheries Whitehall and Brussels trade negotiators will lock horns next month for talks PM has promised to rip up any agreement which shackles UK to EU rule book … Read more
Manchester City ‘hire £20,000-a-day lawyer who helped block Brexit twice’ in bid to get their two-year ban from European football thrown out Manchester City have drafted in the lawyer who helped block Brexit twice David Pannick QC represented Gina Miller in her successful legal challenges City are reportedly paying Mr Pannick £20,000 a day for … Read more
David Dimbleby has launched a savage attack on ‘lying’ Boris Johnson‘s ‘pernicious’ attempt to curb the BBC licence fee. The veteran broadcaster accused the Prime Minister of using the issue to undermine the corporation and avoid having his policies scrutinised. He said Mr Johnson ‘doesn’t give a damn’ about fairness because his landslide election victory … Read more
Boris Johnson unveils new blue passport as Britain reverts back to the colour of its original document post-Brexit PM pictured holding a blue passport on a flight to Newcastle on day of Brexit The blue passports will be sent out at the end of March after 30-year hiatus British passports were dark blue from the inception … Read more
Freeze fuel duty or face a backlash, Chancellor is warned as Tory MPs line up to demand the Conservative manifesto pledge is honoured Rishi Sunak considering cancelling the freeze that has been in place since 2010 Boris Johnson made an election pledge that he had no intention of raising it But PM’s chief aide Dominic … Read more
Tory MPs have vowed to battle any move to increase fuel duty for 37 million hard-pressed motorists in next month’s Budget. Reports suggested new Chancellor Rishi Sunak might contemplate a 2p per litre rise in line with inflation, the first increase in a decade. The move, said to have originated with No 10 chief aide … Read more
US concerns about Huawei’s involvement in building the UK’s 5G network ‘WILL be raised during Brexit trade talks’ with Boris Johnson and Donald Trump now not due to meet until JUNE US officials met UK counterparts in Number 10 yesterday to discuss Huawei US delegation reportedly said Brexit trade talks will be linked to Huawei … Read more
Dominic Cummings is a genius and ministers who don’t want to work with him should ‘shut up’ and ‘stop whingeing’ says Tory Lord Lord Blencathra said ministers should ‘quit’ if they don’t like Dominic Cummings He was branded a ‘mastermind’ by the Tory peer for the Leave campaign Tory lord urged ministers to make way for … Read more
Calls for Boris Johnson to visit the flood-hit areas reached a crescendo last night as Britain braced itself for another weekend of torrential rain. He’s being portrayed unfairly as a heartless toff, holed up at Chevening, one of the Government’s official residences, while half the country is under water. The anger and frustration of those … Read more
Furious senior Tories blast the government’s ‘incomprehensible’ attitude to Huawei and demand ministers act on the ‘deadly serious’ 5G warning from the US that intelligence sharing is at risk US officials today met UK officials in Downing Street to discuss Huawei decision White House said giving Huawei role in 5G will impact on intelligence sharing … Read more
Donald Trump’s chief of staff personally visits Boris Johnson to warn that going ahead with Huawei 5G decision WILL have ‘direct and dramatic impact’ on intelligence sharing with the US Delegation led by White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney in UK for talks Last night he said UK’s Huawei decision would likely impact … Read more