Exclusive: Penny Mordaunt savaged by trade colleagues who say she’s been ‘missing for months’ July 12, 2022 Top Tory leadership candidate Penny Mordaunt has been accused by senior Whitehall figures of neglecting her duties as a trade minister for the past six months, with one claiming “we’ve been a minister down for a long time”. A senior source from the Department for International Trade (DIT) told City A.M. that other ministers had [...]
Tory leadership: Shapps and Raab back Rishi Sunak to be next PM July 12, 2022 Transport secretary Grant Shapps and deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab have backed Rishi Sunak to be the next Tory party leader, with the former chancellor today vowing “a return to traditional conservative economic values” if he becomes Prime Minister. Shapps’ endorsement comes after he decided to call off his faltering campaign and throw his lot [...]
UK to get new PM on 5 September as Tory leader votes start Wednesday July 11, 2022 The UK will get its 78th Prime Minister on 5 September, with the Conservative MPs to begin the process of electing a new party leader on Wednesday. Sir Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers, this evening announced MPs would have their first vote Wednesday and a second on Thursday. A number [...]
Number 10 says Johnson will not announce windfall tax on electricity July 11, 2022 Downing Street today said Boris Johnson will not extend the government’s energy windfall tax to electricity producers. There was speculation when the 25 per cent tax on North Sea oil and gas was announced in May that it would include electricity generators, including on wind farms and other green energy producers, however Boris Johnson’s official [...]
Tory leadership: Zahawi says he’ll cancel Corporation Tax hike if made PM July 11, 2022 New chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has said he has already “set the wheels in motion” to cancel a planned Corporation Tax hike if made Prime Minister as he proposes a swathe of tax cuts to launch his Tory leadership bid. Zahawi told a Westminster event this afternoon that he would also cut the basic rate of [...]
Tory leadership race: Johnson refuses to ‘damage anybody’s chances’ by making endorsement July 11, 2022 Boris Johnson has said he does not want to “damage anybody’s chances” of winning the Tory leadership race by making an endorsement. The Prime Minister said he wanted to “let the party decide, let them get on with it”, after a flood of Tory MPs over the weekend announced their campaigns to become the next [...]
Conservative MPs scramble to choose a new party leader July 7, 2022 The race to be the next Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland began today as MPs scrambled to organise their Tory leadership campaigns. There is no obvious successor to Boris Johnson, with a wide field of candidates from all wings of the party expected to stand. The 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers will [...]
Boris Johnson’s downfall is a story of wasted potential July 7, 2022 To sum up Boris Johnson’s political career you need only listen to Sir Nicholas Soames – the grandson of the outgoing PM’s hero Winston Churchill. “Boris is a chancer, he is a chancer … but that doesn’t alter the fact he’s extremely agreeable to have dinner with,” Soames once told BBC great Michael Cockerell. This [...]
‘Them’s the breaks’: Defiant Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister July 7, 2022 Boris Johnson has formally announced his resignation as Conservative party leader and Prime Minister, telling a crowd of supporters and press outside Downing Street that he was “sad … to be giving up the best job in the world”. Johnson was defiant until the end and blamed today’s resignation on Wesminster’s “herd” mentality, instead of [...]
Sadiq Khan rules out running as an MP if general election is called July 7, 2022 Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has branded Boris Johnson’s refusal to quit ” one of the most shameful sagas in the history of British politics”. The Labour politician, who took on the job from Johnson in 2016, said the PM “has presided over a government defined by lies, sleaze, an utter lack of integrity, unlawful [...]
