Rishi Sunak to host major City figures at £10,000-a-table Tory fundraiser April 24, 2022 Rishi Sunak will host City heavyweights at a £10,000-a-table Tory fundraiser next week as he tries to court new major donors for the party. Investment banker and Conservative party treasurer Malik Karim has organised the event, which will see the chancellor as guest of honour. Sky News reports that the event will be held at [...]
Exclusive: Labour takes seven-point lead in new City A.M. poll April 24, 2022 Labour has taken a seven-point lead over the Conservatives in a new poll, with key local elections just weeks away. Forty per cent of people said they would vote for Labour in the next General Election in a BMG Research/City A.M. poll, while the Conservatives polled 33 per cent and the Liberal Democrats eight per [...]
Rees-Mogg lashes out at ‘inefficient’ civil servants in push to curb working from home April 24, 2022 Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that getting civil servants back into the office en masse will mean greater efficiency and less waste as he pushes to curb working from home in Whitehall. The government efficiency minister said “it is my job to ensure the government estate is run efficiently and commercially … Empty offices are a [...]
Zelensky says Ukraine ‘will surely win’ in Orthodox Easter message April 24, 2022 Volodymyr Zelensky has today claimed that “Ukraine will surely win” against its Russian invaders as a part of his message on Orthodox Easter. The Ukrainian President said “the great holiday today gives us great hope and unwavering faith that light will overcome darkness, good will overcome evil, life will overcome death”. Zelensky will welcome US [...]
Three cabinet ministers face sexual misconduct allegations April 24, 2022 Three cabinet ministers and two shadow cabinet ministers have been accused of sexual misconduct, after being reported to a Westminster watchdog, along with 51 other MPs. The Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS), set up in the wake of the 2018 MeToo movement, has received more than 70 separate complaints. The Sunday Times reports that the [...]
Johnson should not resign and has ‘plenty more fuel in the tank’, says Tory chair April 24, 2022 Boris Johnson still has “plenty more fuel in the tank” and should not resign over partygate, according to Conservative party chair Oliver Dowden. Dowden said that “I do think what happened in Downing Street was wrong”, after the Prime Minister was handed a police fine for breaching Covid rules, but that he does not believe [...]
France’s presidential fight between Macron and Le Pen enters final hours: ‘It’s a choice between cholera and ebola today’ April 24, 2022 Emmanuel Macron is in pole position to win re-election in France’s presidential runoff today, but his lead over his far-right rival Marine Le Pen depends on how many voters decide to stay at home. A victory in today’s run-off vote would make Macron the first French president in 20 years to win a second term. [...]
Boris Johnson’s £4,000 in parking fines ‘drifted like snow on the windshield’ despite not driving a single mile April 24, 2022 During his time as a London-based motoring correspondent, Boris Johnson cost the magazine he worked for more than £4,000 in parking tickets, his former editor said today. Dylan Jones, who edited fashion and lifestyle magazine GQ for more than two decades until 2021, hired Mr Johnson to work at the Conde Nast title in May [...]
Union calls Jacob Rees-Mogg’s notes to civil servants ‘insulting’ April 23, 2022 The union FDA lambasted cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg for leaving “insulting” notes to civil servants. “These notes from JRM are not only condescending, crass and insulting, they completely undermine the leadership of the service,” said FDA’s general secretary Dave Penman. “Day after day we have good people telling us they will go because they know [...]
UK launches inquiry into oligarch charity with royal ties April 23, 2022 The UK has launched an inquiry into a Russian oligarch’s charity with ties to the Royal household. The Kantor Charitable foundation – owned by fertiliser magnate Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor – has donated £9m to Marylebone’s King Edward VII’s Hospital as well as promised £3m to the Prince’s Foundation, a charity set up by Prince Charles. [...]