From Patterson row to peerages for donors: Boris Johnson increasingly under pressure over Tory sleaze November 8, 2021 Calls for a public inquiry into allegations of Tory sleaze are growing this morning as MPs consider how to clean up Westminster following the Owen Paterson row. The Commons will spend three hours hearing an emergency debate on the situation, despite ministers seeking to dismiss the row as a “storm in a teacup”. The Liberal [...]
UK to roll out antiviral Covid pill as soon as this month November 7, 2021 Britain will start to roll out Merck's molnupiravir COVID-19 antiviral pill through a drug trial later this month, Susan Hopkins, Chief Medical Adviser at the UK Health Security Agency said today.
Tory party hit by more sleaze claims as £3m donors systematically given House of Lords place November 7, 2021 The Tory party has been hit by further claims of sleaze, with new research showing that a group of major donors who give more than £3m to the party are systematically being given a place in the House of Lords. New research showed that for the past two decades that any Tory member who takes [...]
Transport Secretary blocks Covid ads to prevent virus fears November 7, 2021 Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has been accused of derailing the "Stop Covid-19 Hanging Around" campaign by stopping ads from appearing on public transport.
George Eustice says Tory sleaze scandal a ‘Westminster storm in a teacup’ November 7, 2021 This week’s scandal over ex-Tory MP’s Owen Paterson’s breach of lobbying rules is a “Westminster storm in a teacup”, according to environment secretary George Eustice. However, Eustice said the government made “a mistake” in trying to overturn Paterson’s recommended suspension, for earning £100,000 a year as a private sector lobbyist, and dismantle parliament’s standards process. [...]
Opposition parties demand investigation into Johnson’s holiday November 6, 2021 Labour and the Liberal Democrats have pushed for an investigation into Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s free use of a a Spanish villa owned by the family of minister Lord Zac Goldsmith. The opposition parties have called on the prime minister to declare his luxury holiday in October in the MPs’ register of interests, which notably [...]
John Major does not hold back as he labels Boris Johnson ‘corrupt’ in unprecedented attack November 6, 2021 Former Prime Minister Sir John Major suggested the Johnson administration was “politically corrupt” over the way it treats Parliament. “I’m afraid that the Government, with their over-large majority, do tend to treat Parliament with contempt. And if that continues, it will end badly,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today. “They bypass Parliament at will and [...]
Sir John Major slams government’s “shameful” handling of Paterson case November 6, 2021 Former Conservative Prime Minister John Major has criticised the government’s attempts to block the suspension of Owen Paterson for breaking lobbying rules. Speaking to BBC Radio 4, Major said: “I think the way the Government handled that was shameful, wrong and unworthy of this or indeed any government. It also had the effect of trashing [...]
US lawmakers pass $1tn infrastructure bill November 6, 2021 The US congress has passed a $1tn package to upgrade key infrastructure across the country such as highways, railways, water pipes, and broadband. The package will now be sent to president Joe Biden to sign into law. This follows a 228-206 vote in the House of Representatives, and months of heated back-and-forth negotiations between the [...]
Brexit stalemate: Frost calls for ‘intensive’ talks with EU on Northern Ireland November 5, 2021 Lord Frost has warned of “limited” progress on Northern Ireland at a Brussels meeting with the EU Commission sparking fears the UK will trigger Article 16. Brexit minister Frost is attempting to renegotiate an agreement which requires goods sent between Britain and Northern Ireland to undergo customs checks to avoid a hard border between Northern [...]