Tory MP paid £300,000 by private equity firm that invests in spy tech for China November 14, 2021 A Tory MP has been paid £300,000 by a private equity firm that invests in a spy technology company used by the China government against Uyghur Muslims. North East Bedfordshire MP Richard Fuller has been paid £20,000 a month since January 2020 to work as an advisory director for Investcorp Securities. It is one of four jobs [...]
Labour takes lead in the polls in wake of Tory sleaze scandals November 14, 2021 Labour has taken the lead in two major polls amid the Tory second jobs and sleaze row that has engulfed Westminster. Labour leads the Conservatives by 37 to 36 per cent in today’s Observer/Opinium poll, while a Savanta ComRes survey two days ago gave Sir Keir Starmer’s party a 6 per cent lead. The Opinium [...]
Jacob Rees-Mogg may have broken parliamentary rules by not declaring £6m in loans November 14, 2021 Jacob Rees-Mogg may have broken parliamentary rules by not disclosing £6m in loans he took out from his Cayman Islands-linked company. The leader of the House of Commons took out £2.94m of “director’s loans” every year between 2018 and 2020 from his UK-based company Saliston Ltd, according to the Mail on Sunday. Rees-Mogg, who led [...]
Shareholder payday on the horizon? Lord Cruddas’ CMC Markets mulls split November 14, 2021 Tory peer Lord Cruddas is reportedly looking into splitting up his CMC Markets into two London-listed firms. The separation could be announced within days, Sky News’ Mark Kleinman reported, creating a leveraged trading business as well as a non-leveraged technology and investment products platform. The move could see shareholders, including Lord Cruddas with his 62.5 [...]
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace denies murder of Kenyan woman by British soldier was covered up November 14, 2021 Defence Secretary Ben Wallce has insisted that there is “no cover up” as Kenyan police look to reopen a probe into what happened to a woman whose body was found in a septic tank close to a British army base. Wallace said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had aided the investigation into Agnes Wanjiru’s alleged [...]
Tory sleaze row puts Johnson behind Starmer for first time since January November 13, 2021 The row over entrenched sleaze within the Tory party has caused Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to leapfrog Prime Minister Boris Johnson for the first time since January. Voters seem to be blaming Johnson for allowing the sleaze saga to worsen, with his ratings as “best prime minister” dipping four percentage points to 27 per [...]
Voters shifting away: Tory sleaze row starting to hurt Conservatives in the polls November 13, 2021 Two-thirds of voters now consider the governing party “very sleazy” amid a flurry of negative headlines, as voters are shifting away from the Tories, according to new polling. A poll by Savanta ComRes for the Daily Mail puts Labour six points ahead of the Conservatives in a sign that recent revelations about MPs’ second jobs [...]
Brexit: ‘Complete instability’ looms in Northern Ireland as ‘tough guy’ approach is not helping, warns Irish minister November 12, 2021 A “tough guy” approach when it comes to Northern Ireland will lead to “disaster”, Irish minister for European affairs Thomas Byrne warned this morning. Asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme if there is a serious danger of a full-scale trade war, Byrne said: “There is a serious danger of complete instability in Northern Ireland [...]
MPs accused of renting out London homes with taxpayer cash November 12, 2021 Fourteen MPs have been accused of renting out homes using a parliamentary expenses scheme loophole while letting out properties they own in London. It gives the ministers a comfortable side income of at least £10,000 a year, while they use taxpayers’ money to rent other property in the city, The Times reported. Former attorney general [...]
Mayor of London tells COP26 leaders to be ‘doers’, not ‘delayers’ November 11, 2021 Sadiq Khan is expected to call out COP26’s national governments today for being “delayers” rather than “doers” when it comes to the climate crisis.