The new chair of Parliament’s intelligence watchdog today accused Boris Johnson of an ‘improper’ bid to seize control after the PM’s favoured candidate was outflanked in a vote. Julian Lewis hit out after No10 kicked him out of the Tory party in revenge for his dramatic ambush of Chris Grayling last night, which saw him … Read more
A Tory MP has been kicked out of the Tory party tonight for ‘working with Labour and the opposition’ after he beat Boris Johnson’s pick Chris Grayling to the chairmanship of the powerful Intelligence and Security Committee. Dr Julian Lewis secured the role despite widespread expectation that Mr Grayling would receive the backing of the … Read more
Former Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson has revealed she rotated two suits for a year-and-a-half after giving birth because she struggled to shift her baby weight. The politician, 41, from Edinburgh, welcomed son Finn with her partner Jen Wilson in October 2018. Speaking on Susannah Constantine’s My Wardrobe Malfunction podcast, mother-of-one Ruth said she refused … Read more
The magic money tree… shaken by a Tory! Astonished former Chancellor NORMAN LAMONT gives his verdict on Rishi Sunak’s mini-Budget By Norman Lamont, Former Chancellor, For The Daily Mail Published: 22:36 BST, 8 July 2020 | Updated: 00:37 BST, 9 July 2020 As a former Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1990s, I can honestly … Read more
Ministers vowed to ‘stand up for British values and security’ today after China threatened ‘consequences’ if Huawei is barred from involvement in the 5G network. The government is set to U-turn on allowing the firm a role in the huge project after intelligence agencies warned US sanctions had raised doubts about security. Conservative MPs are … Read more
Did embattled Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick say that the UK has ‘had enough female Prime Ministers’? Amber Rudd has said an unnamed senior Tory made the comment last year She claims it came during last years’ Conservative party leadership contest Tory MPs claim that Jenrick was the MP who made the remark, which he denies … Read more
Cabinet minister Robert Jenrick pushed through a decision to allow a Tory donor’s £1billion housing development to allow him to save tens of millions of pounds in tax, documents tonight appear to show. The Housing Secretary tonight finally bowed to pressure to release correspondence over his role in the ‘cash for favours’ row involving Richard … Read more
Cabinet minister Robert Jenrick was forced into an embarrassing climbdown today amid ongoing questions over his role in a ‘cash for favours’ row involving a Tory donor’s £1billion housing development. The Housing Secretary pledged to release ‘all relevant information’ relating to his approval of Richard Desmond’s Westferry Printworks scheme in East London. Mr Jenrick made … Read more
The horse racing executive wife of Tory MP Owen Paterson has today been found dead in woodland close to their Shropshire mansion on her husband’s 64th birthday. Mr Paterson, a former cabinet minister under David Cameron and Conservative MP for North Shropshire, said the loss of his wife, Rose, 63, had come as a ‘terrible … Read more
A Conservative MP has claimed England’s care homes were ‘very much a forgotten cousin’ compared to the NHS during the coronavirus crisis. Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown suggested the Government was ‘negligent’ in its handling of care homes and criticised its ‘reckless’ policy. Figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest more than 16,000 elderly residents have died … Read more
People seem weary of Dominic Raab. Too uncaring, they shudder. Too robotic. Something about those deep set eyes which just leaves them cold. It is true that his remarks yesterday criticising Black Lives Matter supporters for taking the knee were remarkably charmless. So too was his Tory leadership campaign last year. Watching his speeches I … Read more
Home Secretary Priti Patel is incandescent. ‘They are trying to silence me because I don’t conform to their version of what it is to be an ethnic minority,’ she seethes. ‘They think they have a licence to speak for everybody from an ethnic minority community. ‘That is not the case. It is simply not the … Read more
Charlotte Church urges parents to keep their children at home despite schools reopening in furious social media rant By Jason Chester for MailOnline Published: 11:16 BST, 1 June 2020 | Updated: 11:18 BST, 1 June 2020 Charlotte Church has urged parents to defy the government and keep their children at home as schools across the … Read more