Fuel duty ‘could go UP for the first time in a DECADE’ hitting 37 million drivers in the pocket as Dominic Cummings looks to raise £4billion for Boris Johnson’s investment plans – despite election pledge to keep the tax frozen New chancellor Rishi Sunak said to be ready to increase petrol and diesel levy The … Read more
A flood-hit canoe hire firm owner who has suffered £100,000 worth of damage to his home has urged Boris Johnson to ‘come and see me, I’ll buy you a pint’. Vic Haddock, 60, whose home is next to the River Severn, has lived in Ironbridge, Shropshire, for 17 years and said the flooding was the … Read more
Number 10 bashes Michel Barnier over trade deal U-turn as the EU negotiator who said the UK could copy Canada’s agreement now claims that we CAN’T Brussels warned Mr Johnson he would not get the trade agreement he craves Barnier’s aide said Brussels would not budge on insistence of ‘level playing field’ He said this meant … Read more
Dominic Cummings suggested the NHS should cover the cost of selecting babies to have higher IQs, it emerged last night. Boris Johnson’s aide said rich would-be parents would inevitably select embryos with the ‘highest prediction for IQ’. In a 2014 blog post on ‘designer babies’, he also floated the idea that a ‘national health system … Read more
Boris Johnson hit by £10bn pension tax backlash as savers urge the Prime Minister and his Chancellor not to raid their retirement pots Treasury to be planning to cut pensions tax relief to 20 per cent for all workers These savers would effectively be taxed twice on their retirement income Institute for Fiscal Studies warned … Read more
Families devastated by flooding today demanded action from Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he enjoys a grace and favour break with his girlfriend in Kent. Up to 1,500 homes have been flooded and thousands more evacuated across Britain following Storm Dennis which brought torrential rain and 90mph winds. But Mr Johnson has chosen to remain … Read more
House prices have risen in every UK region for the first time in almost two years thanks to the ‘Boris bounce’. The value of the average home jumped by 2.2 per cent – or £5,013 – to £234,734 in the year to the end of December. But for the first time since February 2018, prices … Read more
Top Barnier aide warns the UK it cannot have a Canada-style trade deal with the EU because it is too CLOSE to the continent saying ‘Dover is much closer to Calais than Ottawa is’ Stefaan De Rynck, aide to Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, was in London today He warned that the UK and Canada were … Read more
The post-Brexit shake-up to Britain’s immigration system, unveiled today by Priti Patel, should be welcomed on the grounds of politics, economics – and general fairness. I would go further. This new, points-based labour migration policy represents the re-establishment of a national social contract with the British workforce – a contract that was ripped up when … Read more
Priti Patel has branded rapper Dave’s claims that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a ‘real racist’ as ‘utter nonsense’ and ‘highly inappropriate’. The Home Secretary, today appearing on Sky News and BBC Breakfast to promote the Government’s radical immigration-system overhaul, said that Mr Johnson was ‘absolutely not a racist’ and disagreed with Dave’s ‘generalisation’. Her … Read more
Ministers ‘tell Boris Johnson he must “rein in” top aide Dominic Cummings’ because ‘half the Cabinet’ cannot work with him as special advisers ‘seek counselling for stress’ Ministers tell Boris Johnson he needs to ‘rein in’ his top aide Dominic Cummings ‘Half the Cabinet’ reportedly feel unable to work with the PM’s chief adviser Special … Read more
Rapper Dave slams Boris Johnson as ‘a real racist’ and hits out at Grenfell Tower response in altered lyrics as he performed at the Brits Dave the Rapper won a Brit award for Album of the Year at last night’s ceremony 21-year-old performed during the show and claimed Boris Johnson is ‘racist’ US rapper Tyler, … Read more
Dominic Cummings must ‘stop dressing exotically’ and return to being a ‘back room’ operator if he is to survive as Boris Johnson’s top adviser, claims former Tory chancellor Ken Clarke Dominic Cummings facing scrutiny over appointment of adviser Andrew Sabisky Mr Sabisky quit the government after a furious backlash over previous remarks Ken Clarke said … Read more