Johnson and Kwarteng threaten a windfall tax on energy firms if they do not increase investment in gas and renewables… “Boris Johnson will attempt to head off political outrage over soaring profits at energy giants next week by demanding that they pour billions of pounds more into British gas and renewable projects. Shell and BP […]
Rees-Mogg set to delay post-Brexit fresh food checks for fourth time “The UK government is set to announce a fourth delay to physical checks on fresh food imported from the EU amid industry reports that neither technology nor infrastructure resources were ready for the July start of the next phase of Brexit. The Brexit opportunities minister, […]
Emergency plan to slash price of food, fuel and phone tariffs to help fight cost of living crisis “Cabinet ministers have been ordered to draw up emergency plans to slash the price of food, oil products, clothes and phones to ease Britain’s cost-of-living crisis. Under-fire Boris Johnson vowed last night to “do all we can […]
Johnson 1) The Prime Minister will ‘have to resign’ due to ‘damning’ Gray report into Partygate, sources claim… “Sue Gray’s long-awaited Partygate report will be so damning that Boris Johnson will have no choice but to resign as Prime Minister, a source has claimed. A dossier of more than 300 images and 500 pages of […]
Patel denounces BBC for “xenophobia” for attacking Rwanda refugee deal “Priti Patel has accused the BBC of exhibiting an “undercurrent” of xenophobia when reporting the Government’s new immigration deal with Rwanda. Reigniting a war with the broadcaster, the Home Secretary said she was “taken aback” by the tone of BBC journalists’ references to the African […]
Johnson buckles over inquiry into whether he lied about ‘partygate’ “Boris Johnson put his political future in the hands of a star chamber of MPs as he insisted he had “nothing to hide” over the “partygate” scandal. The Prime Minister was on Thursday forced to accept a parliamentary investigation into whether he lied to the Commons […]
Johnson 1) The Prime Minister pledges Commons watchdog vote after dozens of MPs threatened to abstain… “Boris Johnson told his MPs they can have a vote on referring him to the Commons watchdog over Partygate but only if they wait until the police have concluded their investigations. No 10 was forced to abandon efforts to […]
Partygate 1) Tory MPs to vote against new investigation after the Prime Minister apologises “Boris Johnson will order his MPs tomorrow to block an investigation into claims that he misled parliament over lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street. The prime minister offered a “wholehearted apology” yesterday after being issued with a fixed-penalty notice for attending a […]
Johnson to make ‘full-throated apology’ to MPs today over Partygate fines… “Boris Johnson is expected to make a ‘full-throated apology’ to MPs today after he was fined by police for attending a birthday bash in breach of Covid rules. But is it reported he will stop short of addressing allegations he instigated a separate lockdown […]
Defiant Johnson insists he didn’t break Covid rules… “Boris Johnson remains defiant that he did not break coronavirus rules despite being fined, close allies have said, as he plans to brush aside the controversy with a “business as usual” agenda this week. He will attempt to minimise the fallout of the scandal over lockdown parties as […]
Johnson 1) The Prime Minister is accused of ‘leading the celebrations’ at rule-breaking leaving do… “The event expected to create the biggest headache was on November 13, 2020, to mark the exit of Lee Cain, the No 10 director of communications, which insiders say was instigated by Johnson. “This wasn’t a leaving drinks,” said one […]
Johnson wants the first Rwanda migrant flight ‘within two months’… “Britain plans to start removing asylum seekers to Rwanda in about six weeks’ time in an unprecedented attempt to tackle the global migration crisis. The Times understands that Boris Johnson wants the first flight taking Channel migrants to the central African state to leave late […]
Channel boat migrants will be sent to Rwanda “Male migrants who cross the Channel in small boats will be sent to Rwanda in a multimillion-pound deal to be announced by Priti Patel today. The Rwandan government will be given an initial £120 million under a trial scheme. The migrants will be flown to the small African country […]
Partygate 1) The Johnsons and Sunak are fined over Covid rule-breaking “Boris Johnson became the first British prime minister found to have committed a criminal offence while in office, after police fined him for an illegal birthday party held at Downing Street during a Covid-19 lockdown. Johnson was fined by the Metropolitan Police alongside multiple […]
Truss threatens to go after Putin following chemical weapons claims “Russia is feared to have unleashed chemical weapons on Mariupol after reports Ukrainians were targeted by a toxic agent dropped from a drone, as Liz Truss vowed to hold Putin to account over the potential attack. Unverified reports from the besieged southern port city’s Azov regiment […]