Greater Manchester police say detectives have been further granted additional time to speak to suspect Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood has been further arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and making threats to kill. The 20-year-old was arrested on suspicion of rape and assault on Sunday afternoon after police saw […]
Year: 2022
Influential committee reveals 43% jump in economic crime in the year from June 2019 The government has been warned by an influential group of MPs to urgently tackle a “fraud epidemic” across Britain, amid concerns about the increasing financial toll on consumers and taxpayers from economic crime. The Commons Treasury […]
Angry Tories confront Boris Johnson as report finds many of 16 lockdown events ‘difficult to justify’ Read Sue Gray’s report Today’s politics news – live updates See all our coronavirus coverage Boris Johnson has been left desperately trying to shore up his premiership after the Sue Gray report as detectives […]
PM draws anger from own MPs in Commons after report reveals Sue Gray examined 16 gatherings, with 12 being looked at by police Read Sue Gray’s report Today’s politics news – live updates See all our coronavirus coverage A party in Boris and Carrie Johnson’s flat is one of 12 […]
Analysis: Civil servant’s frustration at being asked to hold back is apparent but she gets across a damning verdict Politics live: latest updates It’s not the version of the report Sue Gray had intended to publish, but her 12-page “update” on more than a dozen Downing Street parties could be […]
From ‘failures of leadership’ to the misuse of the No 10 garden and the ‘excessive consumption of alcohol’ Read Sue Gray’s report Today’s politics news – live updates See all our coronavirus coverage Sue Gray’s edited report on alleged lockdown-breaking parties in government is relatively brief (only 12 pages) but […]
Reading Sue Gray’s interim report, it’s hard to believe that the people who made the law had obeyed the law The interim findings of a report by the civil servant Sue Gray are damning of the culture at the heart of Boris Johnson’s government. Ms Gray cited “failures of leadership […]
PM hopes to move on from parties scandal with plans to make it easier to scrap EU laws and tackle cost of living crisis Boris Johnson will attempt to seize back control of the government agenda this week with a policy blitz, a Brexit bill and flying visit to Ukraine, […]
Extrajudicial killings allegedly carried out despite Taliban assurances of safety for those linked to previous leadership or foreign forces The United Nations says it has received “credible allegations” that more than 100 members of the ousted Afghan government, its security forces and those who worked with international troops have been […]
Canterbury MP has accused party’s whips of doing little to protect her from what she called ‘obsessive harassment’ The MP Rosie Duffield is expected to decide imminently whether to quit Labour, after accusing the party’s whips of doing little to protect her from what she called “obsessive harassment”. The MP […]