Johnson calls on Nato to increase defence budgets despite breaking own pledge | Prime Minister faces ‘kangaroo court’ over inquiry into partygate ‘lies’, No 10 fears | ‘Ruthlessly organised’ Tory rebels plot 1922 takeover to oust Johnson | Food import tariffs will be cut to ease cost of living squeeze
Government wins Commons vote on bill to rip up Northern Ireland protocol | Three Red Wall Conservatives ‘in talks to defect to Labour’ | Prime Minister insists he has ‘new mandate’ to lead Conservatives | Johnson and Sunak ‘will reject Tory demands for early tax cut’
Johnson is ‘actively thinking about’ a third term in Downing Street | Plan “to impose steel tariffs to win back Red Wall” | PM calls on world leaders to step up backing for Ukraine
The Conservatives lose Tiverton & Honiton and Wakefield in double blow amidst tactical voting | Dowden resigns, telling the Prime Minister that the party “cannot carry on with business as usual” | Johnson says he will “listen” to voters but “keep going” after the defeats
Strikes 1) Teacher strike would be unforgivable, says Zahawi “A teachers’ strike would be “unforgivable” in the wake of Covid, the Education Secretary has said, as officials draw up plans for an army of supply teachers to keep schools open. Nadhim Zahawi said young people had already suffered “more disruption than any generation that’s gone before […]
Strikes 1) Johnson ready for rail strike stalemate to last months “Boris Johnson believes the government must win its battle with the rail unions and is prepared for the stand-off to last months. The prime minister told his cabinet that Britain must be prepared to “stay the course”. He fears giving in to union demands […]
Railways 1) Government ‘plans to break rail strikes by allowing use of agency workers’ “Boris Johnson has responded to the biggest rail strikes in a generation with plans to break the industrial action by allowing firms to bring in agency staff, a move unions have decried as unworkable, unsafe and potentially breaking international law. As 40,000 […]
Strikes 1) Johnson backs laws to curb unions’ powers… “Strike-busting legislation to allow agency workers to cover for industrial action to be tabled within days. Boris Johnson has backed the plan and will challenge Labour to show it is on the side of passengers and back him. The new law will come too late to […]
The summer of strikes. Rail strikes loom this week. Johnson eases conditions on hiring agency workers and Kwarteng mulls raising limits on damages for employers. Unite and Unison threaten more action. “Britain’s biggest trade unions have been accused by the Business Secretary of “bribing” workers to go on strike after they doubled daily payments to […]
Johnson may not replace ethics adviser “Boris Johnson is considering not replacing Lord Geidt as his ethics adviser after he suddenly quit, accusing the prime minister of preparing “a deliberate and purposeful breach of the ministerial code”. Geidt, a former private secretary to the Queen, is the second independent adviser on ministerial interests to resign in […]
Johnson 1) The Prime Minister’s ethics adviser Lord Geidt resigns after Partygate ‘grilling’… “Boris Johnson’s attempt to relaunch his premiership suffered a fresh blow on Wednesday night when his ethics adviser, Lord Geidt, dramatically quit after conceding the prime minister may have broken the ministerial code over the Partygate scandal. In a statement released on […]
Rwanda flight halted by European Court of Human Rights “The first flight to deport migrants to Rwanda was halted after European human rights judges made an 11th-hour intervention. The European Court of Human Rights granted an urgent injunction to one of the asylum seekers to remove him from the flight, just hours after the UK […]
Johnson 1) The Prime Minister ‘sets collision course’ with Brussels after Bill to scrap the Northern Ireland Protocol is published… “A new Bill, presented to Parliament this evening, is aimed at sweeping away key parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol – including a check-free ‘green channel’ for goods from mainland Britain and stripping control from […]
European judges to be stripped of Northern Ireland Protocol powers under new Brexit law “European judges will be blocked from having the final say on Northern Ireland disputes under a new Brexit law set to spark a fresh Tory rebellion against Boris Johnson. The proposed legislation will remove the oversight of the European Court of Justice […]
Johnson 1) The Prime Minister “rejects green agenda” with food policy rethink… “The Prime Minister is due to launch his food strategy tomorrow alongside Environment Secretary George Eustice, with a focus on boosting homegrown produce in the face of spiralling global prices. He will also reveal that proposals to introduce sugar and salt levies – […]