Boris Johnson’s team denies ‘stitch up’ of Michael Gove June 20, 2019 Boris Johnson is facing Jeremy Hunt in the final stage in race to become Prime Minister after a brutal day in Westminster. Michael Gove lost out on reaching the final two in the contest by just two votes – winning the support of 75 MPs compared to Hunt’s 77. Johnson topped the poll with 160 [...]
Friends, then rivals: Boris Johnson has the last laugh over Michael Gove June 20, 2019 First they were friends, then they were rivals, and now, Johnson is the victor. The lives of Boris Johnson and Michael Gove ran parallel for many years, before becoming intertwined during the EU referendum and split apart by an act of betrayal in the 2016 leadership contest. Johnson has now got his revenge for Gove [...]
Conservative leadership contest: Sajid Javid voted out June 20, 2019 Home secretary Sajid Javid has been eliminated from the Conservative leadership contest. Javid picked up 34 votes in the latest ballot of Conservative MPs, finishing last. Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt came third with 59, while environment secretary Michael Gove finished second with 61 votes. Boris Johnson extended his lead as the frontrunner, picking up 157 [...]
Rory Stewart dumped out of Tory leadership race June 20, 2019 Conservative leadership outsider Rory Stewart was booted out of the race to become the next Prime Minister last night as his support crumbled in the latest round of voting. The international development secretary became a surprise contender in the battle to succeed Theresa May as Conservative leader, after vowing to continue with the Brexit deal already [...]
Labour refuses to back holding a second Brexit referendum if they are in power June 19, 2019 Labour would push for second Brexit referendum on “any deal” agreed with the EU, Jeremy Corbyn has announced – but it is not clear if that only applies to an agreement negotiated by the Conservatives. In a statement on Wednesday afternoon, the Labour leader called for a public vote – saying the ballot paper should [...]
Sajid Javid favourite to be axed from Conservative leadership race June 19, 2019 Home secretary Sajid Javid is the favourite to be eliminated from the Conservative leadership contest when MPs vote in the next ballot on Wednesday afternoon. Javid scraped into the third round of voting when he picked up the minimum 33 backers required in a ballot on Tuesday. The last of all the candidates to launch [...]
Liam Fox: UK needs trade deal with Turkey June 18, 2019 Liam Fox has pledged to strengthen the UK’s ties with Turkey as he attempts to lay the path for a post-Brexit trade deal. The international trade secretary met his counterpart Ruhsar Pekcan in Ankara on Tuesday to cement the UK’s “historic bond” with Turkey. Striking a post-Brexit trade deal with Turkey will be tricky as its customs union relationship with the EU does not cover all of its [...]
EU must drop its City hostility in UK trade talks, warns Brexit secretary June 18, 2019 The European Union must drop its hardline approach to relations between the City and the continent after Brexit, a cabinet minister has warned. The EU insists London’s finance sector must be closely-tied to the bloc’s own regulations in order to grant market access post-Brexit, despite calls for a more wide-ranging and preferential deal in light [...]
Michael Gove has come back before and he can do it again June 12, 2019 When the front pages of weekend newspapers began to spill online last Friday night, I realised a story I had been working on for a year was about to explode. ‘Gove: My cocaine confession’ was the most stark headline, accompanied by the first instalment of a serialisation of my unauthorised biography of the environment secretary. The book [...]
Conservative leadership rivals turn on Boris Johnson’s tax cut plan June 10, 2019 The gloves came off in the Conservative leadership battle today as Boris Johnson’s rivals took aim at his tax-cutting plans while Michael Gove launched a personal attack on the frontrunner. The former foreign secretary pledged to increase the higher rate income tax threshold to £80,000, benefiting three million people. Environment secretary Gove – who scuppered Johnson’s leadership bid in 2016 by [...]
