Johnson unveils series of housing reforms to increase home ownership June 9, 2022 Boris Johnson has launched a “mortgage review”, which will look at ways at extending low deposit home loans, as a part of a series of newly unveiled housing reforms. Number 10 said the review would “look at what other countries are doing and see if we can further extend opportunities in the mortgage market” and [...]
Minister: UK ready to press ahead with unilateral change to NI Protocol June 8, 2022 The UK is ready to push ahead with its move to unilaterally change the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol, according to Northern Ireland minister Conor Burns. Burns said the UK’s “simple” solution would be brought to parliament very soon, unless the EU can come up with a renewed political mandate for its negotiators. Irish PM Micheál [...]
Number 10 renews threat to petrol retailers who don’t pass on fuel duty cut June 8, 2022 Downing Street has renewed threats to name and shame petrol retailers not handing on a 5p cut in fuel duty to customers as UK prices reach almost £2 a litre. Boris Johnson’s spokesman today said the government wants this year’s fuel duty cut to be “passed on at all sites and petrol stations”, but that [...]
MPs accuse government of wasting billions on levelling up agenda June 8, 2022 The government has wasted billions of pounds through poor allocation of its Levelling Up Fund, according to a Westminster committee of MPs. A new report from the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) said the way money had been spent for the government’s flagship policy to improve the North and Midlands had been “unsatisfactory”. The government set up [...]
Johnson promises tax cuts to cabinet after surviving confidence vote June 7, 2022 Boris Johnson has promised his cabinet that he will unveil tax cuts, after last night surviving a vote of confidence in his leadership of the Conservative party. The Prime Minister this morning told a cabinet meeting that he will “deliver tax cuts” and that “it is people who have the best feel for how to [...]
Boris Johnson wins close confidence vote to save premiership June 6, 2022 Boris Johnson has clung onto his premiership by winning a tight no confidence vote tonight, but has been severely wounded by the contest. Johnson won over Tory MPs by 211-148 in a result that will lead to questions about whether he still has the authority to govern. The Prime Minister said it was “a very [...]
Johnson tells Tory MPs ‘best is yet to come’ as he urges them to not vote him out June 6, 2022 Boris Johnson has today vowed to Tory MPs that the “best is yet to come”, after urging them to stick with him in a no confidence vote this evening. The Prime Minister told a meeting of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers that “I will lead you to victory again” as he promised a raft [...]
Sunak says £15bn cost of living package will only add to inflation ‘minimally’ June 6, 2022 Rishi Sunak has moved to assure people that the £15bn cost of living package he recently announced will only “minimally” add to the UK’s inflationary pressures. The chancellor today told Westminster’s Treasury Select Committee that he had been careful “to make sure fiscal policy was responsible in that context”. The chancellor last month performed a [...]
No confidence vote poll: Nearly half of Tory members want Boris Johnson removed June 6, 2022 Nearly half of the Conservative party’s membership want Boris Johnson removed as leader, according to one poll, with the result of the no confidence vote set to be announced at 9pm. A snap poll by YouGov found 42 per cent of Conservative members wanted Johnson gone, with 53 per cent saying he should stay. Another [...]
PM’s anti-corruption tsar John Penrose resigns and calls for Johnson to quit June 6, 2022 Boris Johnson’s anti-corruption tsar has quit his post and has called for the Prime Minister to step down over his handling of partygate. Conservative MP John Penrose said Johnson broke the ministerial code over the Downing Street Covid parties scandal and that he will be voting against the PM in the no confidence vote this [...]
