Chair of 1922 Committee says candidates will now need 20 MP backers to enter, in move to speed up process Britain’s new prime minister will be announced on 5 September, it has been announced, as the starting gun was fired on a Tory leadership race that will see the hopefuls […]
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Leak suggests former CEO believed there was an upside to attacks on drivers as firm campaigned for law changes Uber broke laws, duped police and built secret lobbying operation, leak reveals On 26 January 2016, more than 2,100 furious French taxi drivers, backed by colleagues from Belgium, Spain and Italy, […]
More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne Emmanuel Macron secretly aided Uber lobbying in France, texts reveal Company used ‘kill switch’ during raids to stop police seeing data Former Uber CEO told executives ‘violence guarantees success’ […]
Sources say 1922 Committee may raise threshold of supporters required to 25 to narrow down crowded field Conservative leadership hopefuls face a bruising week in which they must quickly scramble for supporters in what looks likely to be a dramatically accelerated contest to find Boris Johnson’s successor. After an acrimonious […]
Trove of documents leaked to the Guardian cast light on firm’s operations at height of its global rise Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals The Uber files is a global investigation into a trove of 124,000 confidential documents from the tech company that were leaked […]
Senior executives involved in global operation to thwart law enforcement, leaked files reveal Uber broke laws, duped police and built secret lobbying operation, leak reveals Senior executives at Uber ordered the use of a “kill switch” to prevent police and regulators from accessing sensitive data during raids on its offices […]
Senior Tories say the former chancellor is the main focus of the ousted leader’s anger as bitter infighting breaks out Senior Tories accused Boris Johnson of trying to torpedo Rishi Sunak’s bid to succeed him as prime minister – and of refusing to leave No 10 with good grace – […]
Full spectrum of candidates are likely to come from almost every ideological wing of the party UK politics: live updates The Conservative leadership election appears to be wide open, with candidates from almost every ideological wing of the party. With one nation Tories and fiscal conservatives, Brexiters and remainers, there […]
HMRC alert raised as minister faces questions over offshore family trust that held shares worth £20m A “flag” was raised by officials over the financial affairs of the new chancellor, Nadhim Zahawi, before he was promoted, the Observer can reveal. Civil servants in the Cabinet Office’s propriety and ethics team […]
PM pushed candidate forward for role in City Hall while he was mayor of London, report claims Boris Johnson is facing new allegations he lobbied to get a job for a woman who claimed to be having a sexual relationship with him while he was London mayor. It is alleged […]