Boris Johnson brushes looming MP rebellion over social care under the carpet November 23, 2021 Boris Johnson has narrowly managed to push through controversial plans to cut down social care support for poorer households, despite 19 Conservative MPs rebelling against the policy. The government’s plans were only just won, by 272 votes to 246 despite the government having an 80-strong majority in the Commons. The removal of means-tested support from [...]
Caroline Nokes: They ‘trawled through’ my sex life after I said Boris Johnson’s father Stanley touched me inappropriately November 22, 2021 After accusing the Prime Minister’s father of inappropriately touching her, a senior female MP has revealed that journalists scoured through her past sex life to “find some sort of defence.” Caroline Nokes, the Conservative MP for Romsey and Southampton North and chairwoman of the Commons Women and Equalities Committee, accused Stanley Johnson of forcefully smacking [...]
Boris Johnson rules out £20bn bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland November 21, 2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson has abandoned plans for a bridge or tunnel that would have connected Northern Ireland and Scotland. Johnson, a lover of grand infrastructure projects, heavily downplayed the prospects that the concept would ever get off the ground, downgrading it to merely an “ambition” that was “too expensive.” Johnson faced some derision after [...]
MP register update shows Boris Johnson used Heathrow lounge and Geoffrey Cox pocketed another £54k November 19, 2021 The latest update to the register of MPs’ interests shows that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was given use of the Windsor Suite at Heathrow Airport for three people on October 7, before he flew to Marbella on holiday. The Windsor Suite is a VIP lounge at Heathrow and has been used by royals including the [...]
Many Tory MPs furious as Boris Johnson admits he ‘crashed the car’ in Tory sleaze row November 18, 2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson urgently needs to rebuild public trust after admitting he “crashed the car into a ditch” in the row over standards at Westminster, according to warnings from his own MPs. Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab insisted ministers are committed to “fixing the problem” amid continuing frustration and anger among Tory MPs at [...]
Tory MP Caroline Nokes and New Statesman journalist accuse Boris Johnson’s father Stanley of touching them November 16, 2021 Stanley Johnson, the Prime Minister’s father, is accused of inappropriately touching a senior Tory MP and a journalist. Caroline Nokes said the elder Johnson forcefully smacked her on the backside and said she has “a lovely seat” in 2003 ahead of him running to be a Tory MP. Johnson declined to comment about her allegation [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]