MPs from across party confident of enough letters to trigger leadership contest after Sue Gray’s report The mood of Conservative MPs was hardening against Boris Johnson on Tuesday night, with open talk of how to oust the prime minister and who should succeed him as he gave a disastrous interview […]
Month: January 2022
Virginia Giuffre’s lawyers seek her statement to counter the royal’s insistence he has never met their client or visited the club A woman who may have seen Prince Andrew with Virginia Giuffre at a London nightclub 20 years ago is “willing” to provide testimony in Giuffre’s civil lawsuit against the […]
Measures introduced to fight spread of Omicron could be lifted next week with millions told to return to workplaces Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Boris Johnson is expected to instruct millions to return to workplaces across England as he tries to placate furious MPs with a […]
Edward Leung, who came up with ‘Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times’, has spent four years in prison over 2016 riots Hong Kong activist Edward Leung, who coined the now-banned slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times” has been released from prison and placed under strict supervision after […]
UK ‘little nearer to closing great digital divide’ between cities and rural areas, says committee Boris Johnson’s promise to “level up” the nation by providing next-generation-speed broadband to most homes by 2025 is under threat as rural dwellers are left behind in the internet revolution, according to a report by […]
Johnson told MPs he did not realise 20 May 2020 event was social gathering but ex-aide says PM was advised not to allow it Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Dominic Cummings has accused Boris Johnson of lying after No 10 denied the prime minister was warned […]
A New Zealand defence force surveillance flight has returned from Tonga. Pictures show land and trees coated in ash Some of the first images have emerged from Tonga’s volcano and tsunami-hit islands, after a New Zealand defence force surveillance flight returned from the cut-off country, as two deaths from the […]
Guidance may replace legal requirements as Boris Johnson indicates UK must now live with the virus Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage No 10 is drawing up plans to phase out England’s remaining pandemic restrictions from as early as March as a beleaguered Boris Johnson signals to […]
Peers vote 242-185 for heavier penalties in England and Wales as ministers lose 14 divisions The House of Lords has voted to make misogyny a hate crime in England and Wales, in a night of several defeats for the government in the upper chamber. The law change would enable judges […]
Defence secretary says ‘support is for short-range and clearly defensive weapon capabilities’ Britain has begun supplying Ukraine with new light anti-tank weapons in response to “the increasingly threatening behaviour from Russia”, the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has announced. The ratcheting up of military support comes as the Kremlin continues to […]