Sex allegations 1) May announces a wide enquiry into abuse failure… “Britain faces a day of reckoning over an institutional failure to protect children from abuse. Public bodies from the police to parliament, and spanning schools, churches and the BBC, will be subjected to a sweeping independent inquiry into how paedophiles were allowed to act […]
Sex allegations 1) May to make a “significant” statement in the Commons “Home Secretary Theresa May is to make a ‘significant’ statement to MPs on claims of historical sex abuse linked to Westminster, the BBC understands. … A senior government source said Mrs May will go beyond merely announcing who is to head a review […]
Majority required to hold public sector strikes ‘Plans intended to ban teachers and other public sector workers from going on strike are being drawn up by the Conservatives in the biggest crack-down on unions for 30 years. If David Cameron wins next year’s General Election, workers will be prevented from triggering industrial action based on […]
‘More than ten’ politicians on list held by police investigating paedophile ring “More than 10 current and former politicians are on a list of alleged child abusers held by police investigating claims of a Westminster paedophile ring. MPs or peers from all three main political parties are on the list, which includes former ministers and […]
Osborne: I wish we’d done more in our first year ‘The coalition should have taken more radical “big decisions” in its first year, George Osborne admitted yesterday. The chancellor made the candid admission when he was asked his “biggest regret” in an interview with a group of schoolchildren. “I wish we’d done more,” he said […]
Cameron and Boris team up for 2015 “David Cameron has asked Boris Johnson to help ‘reach parts of the electorate other Tories can’t’ in secret talks on the general election campaign. … The London Mayor – who yesterday appeared with Darcey Bussell on the South Bank in yet another slightly absurd photo opportunity – is […]
Cameron intends to act against superbugs… “Britain will lead a global fightback against antibiotic-resistant superbugs to prevent the world from being ‘cast back into the dark ages of medicine’, David Cameron is to announce today. … The rise of untreatable bacteria threatens an ‘unthinkable scenario’ where minor infections could once again kill, the prime minister […]
Commons Juncker statement 1) It’s a love-in beween the Prime Minister and his party… “Mr Cameron was given a hero’s welcome by Conservative MPs in the House of Commons yesterday, as he defended his decision to oppose Mr Juncker’s appointment “right to the end”. More cheers came when Mr Cameron said he would do what […]
Europe 1): Cameron explains how his European policy will succeed “Jean-Claude Juncker…spoke in his campaign of his readiness to address the concerns of the United Kingdom…If…we can agree that we are not heading, at different speeds, to the same place – as some have assumed up to now – then there is business we can […]
Defensive briefing 1) How Cameron threw Van Rompuy out of Number 10… “Van Rompuy was summarily led to the Downing Street door after the men clashed in the ornate White Room over Mr Cameron’s claim former Luxembourg Prime Minister Juncker’s appointment spells disaster for Britain – and Europe. Tempers flared at Mr Cameron’s determination to […]
1) President Juncker: Britain “closer to leaving EU” “Britain has moved a step closer to leaving the European Union after David Cameron declared “war” on Brussels over the nomination of Jean-Claude Juncker. Keeping Britain in the EU “has got harder”, the Prime Minister said, after he was outvoted by 26 to two in his attempt […]
Cameron heads for defeat on Juncker’s appointment… “Britain’s failure to block the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker began a ‘blame game’ in earnest last night, with Anglo-German relations described as the ‘dialogue of the deaf’ and signs of a bloody tussle in Whitehall to avoid responsibility. Barring a last-minute coup, Britain is heading for defeat today […]
Cameron loses allies over his bid to block Juncker “David Cameron’s bid to block Jean-Claude Juncker becoming the next European Commission president looks set to fail after his allies changed tack. German Chancellor Angela Merkel had given the British prime minister hope after agreeing to a vote on the issue if there was no consensus. […]
Hacking trial 1) Cameron produces his Coulson apology “The Prime Minister delivered a ‘full and frank apology’ for hiring Coulson as his director of communications in 2007, just months after he had resigned as editor of the News of the World over an earlier hacking scandal. Mr Cameron employed Coulson against clear advice from senior […]
“He f****d it up.” Warsaw’s jibe at Cameron over the EU “David Cameron’s bid to renegotiate Britain’s relationship with the EU has been ridiculed by Poland’s Foreign Secretary in explosive private recordings leaked to the country’s media. … Radek Sikorski, who was in the infamous Bullingdon Club with Boris Johnson at university in Oxford, accused […]