Exclusive: Shaun Bailey talking up chances of Tory peerage from Boris Johnson November 25, 2021 Former London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey has been talking up his prospects of being in the House of Lords next year, according to multiple well-placed Tory sources, after apparent assurances from Boris Johnson that he would be given a peerage. One senior Conservative party source said Bailey told people at numerous Tory dinners that Number [...]
UK will not join New Zealand trade pact to end fossil fuel subsidies, says Trevelyan November 24, 2021 The UK will not join a New Zealand-brokered trade pact to end fossil fuel subsidies, international trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan has said. She told MPs on the International Trade Select Committee that the UK doesn’t “have any intention” to sign up to the Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability (ACCTS). It comes as Trevelyan [...]
Dominic Raab: Johnson not losing his grip and is ‘on great form’ November 24, 2021 Dominic Raab has been forced to insist Boris Johnson is not losing his grip on the Tory party and that he is “on great form”, after being widely criticised for a bizarre speech at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) this week. The deputy prime minister and justice secretary said Johnson’s speech at the CBI, [...]
Boris Johnson to host drinks with Tory MPs in bid to improve relations November 23, 2021 Boris Johnson will tonight hold a drinks reception with Tory MPs that were first elected in the 2015 and 2017 elections in a bid to improve faltering relations with his backbenchers. Johnson will welcome the MPs to Downing Street, just a day after he was widely criticised by MPs in his own party for a [...]
Tory MPs pan ‘appalling’ Boris Johnson speech to business bosses at the CBI November 22, 2021 Tory MPs have widely criticised Boris Johnson’s speech today at a major business conference, after the Prime Minister compared himself to Moses, spoke at length about Peppa Pig World and lost his place for 20 seconds. Conservative MPs were quick to express their dismay with the speech on WhatsApp groups across Westminster, with one minister [...]
Boris Johnson ‘prophesises’ mass return of office working at CBI conference November 22, 2021 Boris Johnson has “prophesised” a mass return of workers to city centres and office blocks, saying that there are “sound evolutionary reasons why mother nature does not like working from home”. Johnson said – in a bizarre speech that referenced Pippa Pig World and saw the Prime Minister lose his place for 20 seconds – [...]
Boris Johnson to force all new UK buildings to install EV charging points November 21, 2021 Owners of newly built homes and commercial buildings will be forced to install electric vehicle charging points from next year under new regulations to be announced by Boris Johnson tomorrow. The new regulations, which Downing Street says will lead to 145,000 extra charge points installed across England each year, will also extend to properties “undergoing [...]
Exclusive: Starmer calls for ‘economic reset’ as he makes pro-business pitch to the CBI November 21, 2021 Sir Keir Starmer will tomorrow hone Labour’s pitch as an unapologetically pro-business party as he claims the UK needs an economic “reset” after Brexit and Covid. Starmer, writing in City A.M., said his own reset of the Labour party has meant “showing business that as the party of work, we understand the need for stability, security, [...]
Met faces legal challenge after it doesn’t investigate Tory cash for peerages claims November 21, 2021 The Metropolitan Police is facing a legal challenge over its decision to not investigate claims that the Tory party systemically gives peerages to its largest donors. The Metropolitan Police will not investigate research done by the Sunday times/OpenDemocracy that showed the past 16 Tory party treasurers, who have all donated more than £3m to the [...]
Andrew Bailey: Public sector hiring surge is squeezing UK job market November 21, 2021 A surge in public sector hiring is helping contribute to labour market shortages in the UK, according to Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey. Bailey said the public sector has grown so much that it created as many jobs as were lost during the pandemic. “Public-sector employment has increased – we reckon it’s about 200,000 [...]