Mordaunt supporter Tobias Ellwood loses Tory whip for vote no-show July 19, 2022 Penny Mordaunt supporter Tobias Ellwood has lost the Conservative party whip today for not showing up to support the government in yesterday’s confidence vote. Ellwood, a perennial critic of Boris Johnson, will now be unable to participate in the final two MP votes for the Tory leadership contest. The Defence Committee chair was in Moldova [...]
New anti-drone base to be built in Scotland to create Europe’s main hub for high-energy laser weapons July 19, 2022 The defence and intelligence technology firm Raytheon UK said this morning the war in Ukraine has highlighted the threat posed by drones. Therefore, an anti-drone hub is to be built in Scotland to help meet the growing demand for laser weapons which target small attack drones. The firm’s president of electronic warfare systems, Annabel Flores, [...]
Kremlin’s grip on Kyiv: Chaos and mass exodus at Ukrainian security services as Zelensky fires dozens of officials for treason July 19, 2022 Only a day after two senior Ukrainian officials were dismissed over allegations that their agencies harboured “collaborators and traitors”, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has expanded the shakeup of his security services on Monday by suspending 28 more officials. In his nightly video address, Zelensky said a “personnel audit” of the Security Service of Ukraine [...]
Zahawi to outline plan to change EU’s City rules in Mansion House speech July 18, 2022 The UK’s new chancellor will try to soothe City jitters tomorrow night as a major new report suggests the Square Mile is suffering as a result of political uncertainty. Nadhim Zahawi will tell the annual Mansion House bankers’ dinner that he will “repeal hundreds of pieces of retained EU law” post-Brexit and replace them with [...]
Tory leadership: Sunak builds lead as Tugendhat drops out July 18, 2022 Rishi Sunak has built a strong lead in the in the third round of voting in the Tory leadership contest, with Tom Tugendhat dropping out. Sunak got 115 votes from Tory MPs, followed by Penny Mordaunt on 82, Liz Truss on 71, Kemi Badenoch on 58 and Tugendhat on 31. The vote saw Sunak, Truss [...]
Nearly 900 Tube journeys delayed in three years due to late drivers July 18, 2022 Almost 900 Tube journeys were delayed between 2019 and 2022 as a result of drivers turning up late to work, new Transport for London (TfL) figures have revealed. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request, made by the free market TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) think tank, found 894 Tube rides were late by at least two minutes [...]
UK risks losing American investment unless post-Brexit trade disruption is fixed July 18, 2022 The UK risks forgoing a wave of US investment unless it irons out its post-Brexit trading relationship with the European Union (EU), a new report published today warned. The UK-US economic corridor remains strong, but would be strengthened by London cooling tensions with Brussels, according to a report by consultancy Bain and Company and BritishAmerican [...]
Rishi Sunak: The mega-rich golden Tory boy whose crown is slipping after meteoric rise under Boris Johnson July 18, 2022 At the start of the pandemic, Rishi Sunak was the most popular politician in Britain as the former hedge fund manager rolled out an unprecedented furlough scheme which saved millions of jobs as the economy ground to a halt. Once the golden boy of the Tory Party, Sunak enjoyed a meteoric rise under Boris Johnson [...]
Mordaunt’s boss Trevelyan launches merciless attack on Tory leadership hopeful: ‘Others picked up the pieces’ July 18, 2022 Tory leadership hopeful Penny Mordaunt, currently one of the favourites to win the contest, received some harsh criticism this morning from within her own party. In fact, from her boss. Mordaunt missed key meetings in her role as a Government minister in order to plot her leadership campaign, her departmental boss has claimed. The trade [...]
Sky News cancels Tory leaders debate after Sunak and Truss pull out July 18, 2022 Sky News has cancelled the third Tory leadership debate planned for tomorrow, after frontrunners Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss today said they would not participate. It comes after a bruising ITV debate last night, which saw candidates launch vicious attacks on each other for 60 minutes. The clashes were particularly heated between Sunak, Truss and [...]