Boris Johnson set to resign as UK Prime Minister July 7, 2022 Boris Johnson has agreed to resign as UK Prime Minister, after a sensational 48 hours which saw his government implode. The BBC and Mirror reported just after 9am today that he will quit as leader of the Conservative party and will stay on as caretaker Prime Minister until a new party leader is chosen. A [...]
Boris Johnson refuses to resign and instead sacks Michael Gove July 6, 2022 Boris Johnson has ignored the calls of senior cabinet ministers and has refused to resign, leaving the government in crisis. Johnson appears to have lost the confidence of Conservative party MPs and has seen the resignation of more than 40 ministers and parliamentary private secretaries, MPs who work as assistants to ministers, leaving questions marks [...]
Javid calls on cabinet ministers to quit as Gove tells PM it’s time to go July 6, 2022 Sajid Javid has called on other cabinet ministers to leave Boris Johnson’s government and housing secretary Michael Gove has told the PM that it’s time to quit as his government collapses around him. In a blistering Commons speech, Javid said “treading the tight rope between loyalty and integrity has become impossible in recent months” and [...]
Zahawi to review planned Corporation Tax hike as PM clings on July 6, 2022 New chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has vowed to review a planned increase in Corporation Tax for the UK’s largest companies as Boris Johnson tries to cling onto power. Zahawi told the BBC today that “nothing was off the table”, including a potential scrapping of a planned increase in Corporation Tax for the UK’s largest firms from [...]
MPs cast doubt on claimed benefits of UK-Australia trade deal July 6, 2022 A Westminster committee has poured doubt on the potential benefits of the UK-Australia trade deal, with MPs claiming that it could cause long-term damage to Britain’s agricultural sector. The International Trade Committee today released its report into the trade deal, the first to be negotiated from scratch post-Brexit, which criticised the government for “overselling” the [...]
Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid quit cabinet as PM on the brink July 5, 2022 Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid have both sensationally resigned from cabinet, leaving Boris Johnson’s government on the brink of collapsing. The two resignations may spell the end of Johnson’s premiership as more ministers are now likely to resign in anger with Johnson’s handling of the Chris Pincher sexual misconduct scandal. Johnson’s chief of staff Steve [...]
Number 10 admits Boris Johnson knew of official complaint against Chris Pincher before giving him ministerial jobs July 5, 2022 Number 10 has been forced to admit Boris Johnson was personally briefed on an official sexual misconduct allegation against Chris Pincher, before he was then handed a series of ministerial jobs. Johnson’s spokesman said a “complaint was made” against Pincher when he was a junior foreign office minister in 2019 “and looked into through the [...]
Johnson accused of lying over Pincher sexual misconduct scandal by ex-top official July 5, 2022 Boris Johnson and Number 10 have been accused of lying over the Chris Pincher sexual misconduct scandal, with the former head of the Foreign Office claiming the Prime Minister knew about formal complaints against the MP. Lord Simon McDonald today wrote to parliament’s standards watchdog to say that Johnson received an in-person briefing on an [...]
Boris Johnson recommits to securing UK-India trade deal by October July 4, 2022 Boris Johnson has confirmed the UK plans to sign a post-Brexit free trade deal with India by October as negotiators prepare for a fresh round of talks this month. The Prime Minister told MPs today that he was aiming to have the deal completed by the Indian holiday of Diwali as he doubled down on [...]
Starmer and Khan split over Labour position on UK joining EU single market July 4, 2022 Labour’s post-Brexit position came under the spotlight today as a split between Sir Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan on the UK’s relationship with the EU was reopened. Starmer used a major speech tonight to say the UK would not rejoin the EU’s single market under a Labour government, while also accusing Boris Johnson of “missing [...]
