Scottish Tory leader Ross Douglas calls for Boris Johnson to resign January 12, 2022 The leader of Scottish Tory party has called for Boris Johnson to resign as his premiership comes under increasing threat over the Downing Street parties scandal. Ross has told Sky News that Johnson has to go as Prime Minister after admitting today that a lockdown-busting party happened on 20 May 2020 in the Downing Street [...]
Boris Johnson admits Number 10 broke lockdown rules with May 2020 party January 12, 2022 Boris Johnson has finally admitted Downing Street broke the government’s own Covid rules by throwing a staff garden party in May 2020, but claimed he was unaware that it was not a work event. In a grovelling apology to the House of Commons today, Johnson said he knew “the rage [people] feel with me and [...]
UK signs preliminary investment deal with Oman January 12, 2022 The UK has struck a preliminary investment partnership deal with Oman that sees the Middle East country pledge to increase future foreign direct investment into the UK. The deal was signed in London yesterday by UK trade minister Gerry Grimstone and AbdulSalam Al Murshidi, president of Oman’s sovereign wealth fund. The deal comes as the [...]
Exclusive: Senior Tory calls for UK to mull HSBC sanctions over links to Uyghur oppression January 11, 2022 HSBC should be hit with economic sanctions if it does not sever ties with a firm that is closely linked to the ethnic cleansing of Uyghur Muslims in China, according to senior Tory MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith. City A.M. can reveal the former Conservative leader and a group of other MPs will write to [...]
Downing Street parties scandal: Boris Johnson ‘going nowhere’, say ministers January 11, 2022 Boris Johnson is “going nowhere” and will not consider resigning over the Downing Street parties scandal engulfing him, the government has said. Johnson’s position is coming under increasing pressure, after a leaked email from a senior civil servant last night revealed Downing Street had a lockdown-busting “bring your own booze” party on 20 May, 2020. [...]
Ruth Davidson says Brits will ‘never forgive’ Johnson over Downing Street parties January 11, 2022 The former leader of the Scottish Tory party has launched an attack on Boris Johnson over the latest allegations of a lockdown-breaking Downing Street party, saying the public will “never forgive” the Prime Minister. Ruth Davidson said the latest allegations “make a mockery of this idea that we were doing a national endeavor to try [...]
New Downing Street party allegation from May 2020 to be probed in official investigation January 11, 2022 New allegations that Downing Street held a lockdown-breaking party for 40 members of staff in May 2020 will be probed by senior civil servant Sue Gray as a part of a wider investigation. Paymaster general Michael Ellis today apologised “unreservedly for the upset that these allegations have caused” and that “if wrongdoing is established [in [...]
Starmer tells Boris Johnson to ‘stop lying’ over lockdown-busting Downing Street parties January 11, 2022 Sir Keir Stamer has launched fresh attacks on Boris Johnson over his involvement in lockdown-breaking Downing Street parties, telling the Prime Minister to “stop lying to the British public”. The Labour leader said that Johnson’s “deflections and distractions are absurd” in the wake of fresh evidence he knew about illegal mass events in Downing Street [...]
Leaked email proves Downing Street had lockdown-busting party in May 2020 January 10, 2022 Downing Street staff were invited to a party during the height of lockdown in May 2020 to “make the most of the lovely weather”, a new leaked email has revealed. An email was sent by the Prime Minister’s Principal Private Secretary Martin Reynolds to more than 100 staff in Number 10, telling them to “bring [...]
TfL finance chief quits post amid financial turmoil for the London transport body January 10, 2022 Transport for London’s (TfL) chief financial officer has resigned amid the transport body’s ongoing financial turmoil. It was announced today that Simon Kilonback will leave his post and join internet provider G.Network, after working at TfL since 2009, in what is another blow to the body as it seeks to secure its financial future. It [...]
