Truss warned to set end date for Northern Ireland Protocol talks with EU January 3, 2022 Liz Truss has been warned by unionist leaders that there will be “major implications” if she does not soon set a date to end negotiations with Brussels over the Northern Ireland Protocol. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), told The Times that the foreign secretary needs to set a “clear date” to end [...]
Zahawi: ‘Nothing in data’ suggests more Covid restrictions needed January 3, 2022 A senior cabinet minister has declared there is still “nothing in the data” that suggests more Covid restrictions are needed in England as Omicron cases continue to surge. Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi said the government is still not planning to implement stricter Covid curbs, with a decision set to be made by Boris Johnson on [...]
Shaun Bailey apologises ‘unreservedly’ for lockdown-breaking Number 10 party December 15, 2021 Former Tory London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey has quit a top committee role in the London Assembly, after being accused of breaking lockdown last Christmas to party in Number 10. Bailey, who is one of nine Conservatives on the 25-member London Assembly, will no longer sit as chair of the body’s Police and Crime Committee [...]
Tory MPs deliver blow to Boris Johnson as 100 vote against new Covid restrictions December 15, 2021 More than 100 Tory MPs delivered a heavy blow to Boris Johnson last night as they refuse to support the government’s plan to force people to show Covid certificates to enter night clubs and large events. Scores of Tory backbenchers decried the new law in a House of Commons debate, with the measure being described [...]
IMF boss: UK to face even more Brexit disruption in new year December 14, 2021 The UK will face more trade disruption in the new year as new post-Brexit customs checks come into place, International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Kristalina Georgieva has said. The UK will implement its full range of post-Brexit checks on EU goods coming into Britain from 1 January, after delaying them for a year. The EU [...]
Boris Johnson faces his biggest ever Tory rebellion over Covid restrictions December 14, 2021 Boris Johnson will today face the biggest rebellion of Tory MPs since he became Prime Minister, with at least 80 backbenchers vowing to not support the government in votes on new Covid restrictions. Senior Tories like Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Steve Baker, Tom Tugendhat and Tobias Ellwood have said they will vote against at least [...]
Businesses set to get economic support if more restrictions are announced December 14, 2021 The government is set to provide fresh economic support to businesses if more Covid restrictions are imposed by Boris Johnson. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is looking at potential funding options for businesses if they are forced to close due to the Omicron variant, including bringing back the furlough scheme. Businesses have been provided no extra support [...]
Online harms: Westminster committee calls for online giants to be forced to remove scam ads December 14, 2021 Social media giants should be forced to take down paid-for scam advertisements through new online regulations, according to a joint committee of Lords and MPs. The Joint Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill, a collection of peers and MPs that are scrutinising the government’s proposed online reforms, said Boris Johnson’s government “should introduce legislation [...]
Russia invasion of Ukraine would have ‘significant consequences’, Johnson tells Putin December 13, 2021 Boris Johnson has today warned Russia President Vladimir Putin that there will be “significant consequences” if he moves to invade Ukraine. The pair spoke this afternoon, with a Number 10 spokesperson saying that Johnson “expressed the United Kingdom’s deep concern over the build-up of Russian forces on Ukraine’s border, and reiterated the importance of working [...]
Brexit: UK-EU talks on Northern Ireland resume this week as UK sets ‘no time limit’ on discussions December 13, 2021 Talks between the UK and the EU on the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol will resume this week, with Number 10 today putting no “set limit” for how long negotiations will drag on. Defacto Brexit secretary Lord David Frost and his EU counterpart Maros Sefcovic will meet twice this week to try and move talks forward, [...]
