Boris Johnson REFUSES to take action to ease cost-of-living pain before quitting No10 in A MONTH: PM returns from honeymoon but will leave it to successor to act – as Gordon Brown blasts him and Chancellor for holidaying during economic crisis Ex-PM suggested recalling Parliament from its long summer holiday over crisis Bank of England … Read more
Blundering MP gets name of her town’s football club wrong twice in Parliamentary tribute Tory MP Sarah Atherton congratulated Wrexham AFC in speech in the Commons She called Wrexham Association Football Club ‘Wrexham Athletic FC’ twice Ms Atherton was debating Wrexham’s bid for the UK City of Culture 2025 title By Lizzie May For Mailonline … Read more
Labour MP is told she is ‘historically wrong, factually wrong and morally wrong’ to make comparison between Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the situation in Israel and Palestine By MailOnline Reporter Published: 22:07 GMT, 24 February 2022 | Updated: 07:16 GMT, 25 February 2022 The Labour MP for Sunderland Central Julie Elliott was told she … Read more
‘It took all that time to produce EIGHT pages’: Anger and mockery as long-awaited Sue Gray report on No10 partygate is published (and is just as lacking in detail as many predicted) By Mark Duell for MailOnline Published: 12:41 GMT, 31 January 2022 | Updated: 16:10 GMT, 31 January 2022 Britons today mocked the long-awaited … Read more
Ministers turn down cross-Channel power cable plan linked to party donor who gave Conservatives more than £1million Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng decided to dismiss the plans from Aquind They were to bring in an electricity link between Portsmouth and Normandy Alexander Temerko donated over £1m to Tories and is listed as Aquind director By James Gant … Read more
‘Saudi Arabia has no better friend in the UK than me’: Texts reveal how Tory MP begged for 2nd job with Saudis ‘to help pay school fees’ Daniel Kawczynski tried to sell himself by claiming to be the most ‘pro-Saudi’ MP The Polish-born politician arranged to host one potential employer in Parliament Series of Whatsapp … Read more
Boris Johnson becomes first Tory leader to trail on ‘best PM’ rating since 2008 while another poll shows Labour seven points ahead – as Keir Starmer prepares to address the nation on BBC TONIGHT at 7pm Keir Starmer is 13 points ahead of Boris Johnson on ‘most capable PM’ question It is the first time … Read more
Geoffrey Cox has agreed to two more weeks of work for the British Virgin Islands this month while the Commons is sitting, according to reports. The former attorney general is under fire for spending weeks working as a high-ranking lawyer in the Caribbean while Parliament has been sitting, apparently with the approval of the Tory … Read more
‘How does he find time to be an MP? Tory Geoffrey Cox’s £1m legal earnings are condemned by Labour as PM says second jobs will be ‘looked at’ with calls for consultancies to be banned Politicians are pointing fingers at each other over their paid sidelines Comes after bitter row over Boris Johnson’s abortive bid … Read more
Boris Johnson tonight demanded that Emmanuel Macron rein in his ministers stoking tensions over fishing rights – and warned that the UK ‘stands ready’ to respond if Paris escalates the situation. The PM fired a shot across Mr Macron’s bows ahead of a meeting between the pair on Sunday – despite insisting that the cross-Channel … Read more
Cabinet minister Nadine Dorries was today questioned whether the BBC will still exist in a decade – as she accused the broadcaster of nepotism and elitism. The Culture Secretary demanded change at the organisation, saying its staff needed to reflect a wider demographic than just people ‘whose mum and dads work there’. Speaking at a … Read more
Boris Johnson offers top science and maths teachers a £3,000 ‘premium’ in bid to woo them to underperforming schools in ‘the places that need them most’ as part of his Levelling Up plan PM used conference speech to unveil plans for top maths and science teachers Wants them to work in ‘the places that need … Read more
Rishi Sunak ‘is pushing for the City of London to be excluded from new global tax crackdown’ despite leading G7 efforts to make big firms pay more G7 finance ministers agreed plan last weekend to introduce global tax changes Plan designed to make big firms pay their fair share of tax where they operate But … Read more