Northern Ireland 1) The Prime Minister signals his readiness to scrap Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading deal… “Boris Johnson’s government is on a collision course with the EU after signalling its intention to announce plans next week to tear up post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland. The UK prime minister told his Irish counterpart Micheál Martin […]
Queen’s Speech: Johnson ‘purges’ key business reforms from his legislative programme “When Boris Johnson’s government on Tuesday unveils its legislative programme for the coming year, there will be some striking omissions. Legislation to improve UK auditing and corporate governance, provide statutory powers for a technology watchdog, and create a new football supervisory authority — all […]
Queen’s Speech 1) Johnson will announce a ‘Brexit Bills bonanza’ this week to deliver a ‘dividend’ of repealed EU laws “Boris Johnson will use this week’s Queen’s Speech to put Britain on the front foot with a ‘Brexit Bills bonanza’. The Prime Minister will try to put his recent woes behind him and re-energise his […]
Leaked memo ‘demolishes’ Labour leader’s Beergate story “Keir Starmer has been plunged into a full-scale leadership crisis after The Mail on Sunday obtained a secret Labour Party document which appears to shatter his version of events over ‘Beergate’. An operational note drawn up ahead of Sir Keir’s notorious visit to Durham, where he was filmed […]
Local elections 1) The Conservatives lose seats across London and Oxfordshire, as local council leaders question Johnson’s leadership “The Tories lost the flagship Wandsworth Council to Labour after having controlled it since 1978, while Keir Starmer’s party also claims to have taken the totemic stronghold of Westminster – where the PM himself voted. The Conservatives […]
Council elections 1) Many candidates stress they are standing as “Local Conservatives” “Hundreds of Tories are distancing themselves from Boris Johnson by standing as “Local Conservatives” in Thursday’s council elections, with rebel MPs saying they will gauge support over the weekend for a move against the prime minister. Election leaflets seen by the Guardian show […]
Johnson 1) The Prime Minister vows to take ‘full responsibility’ for a potential local elections ‘hammering’… “Boris Johnson tonight pledged to take ‘full responsibility’ if the Conservatives suffer a hammering in this week’s local elections following the Partygate scandal. A number of Tory MPs have warned they are waiting on Thursday’s poll results before delivering […]
Johnson will invoke Churchill as he becomes first world leader to address Kiev parliament “Boris Johnson will today hail Ukraine’s ‘finest hour’ in standing up to Russia as he becomes the first world leader to address Kiev’s parliament. The Prime Minister will evoke Sir Winston Churchill and salute the resistance of Ukrainians in the face […]
Johnson 1) The Prime Minister is planning to bring back Right to Buy… “Boris Johnson wants to give millions of people the right to buy the homes they rent from housing associations in a major shake-up inspired by Margaret Thatcher. The Prime Minister ordered officials to develop the plans in the last fortnight after becoming […]
Did Rayner boast of her ‘Sharon Stone trick’… and then deny that she’d done so? “A Conservative Party inquiry into the ‘Basic Instinct’ furore over Angela Rayner has concluded that the Labour Deputy Leader was herself the source of the story. The report in last week’s Mail on Sunday triggered a storm at Westminster, after Ms […]