Partygate: Downing Street staff threw boozy bash while Boris Johnson was fighting Covid in hospital June 6, 2022 DOWNING Street staff threw a booze-fuelled party while the Prime Minister was in hospital undergoing lifesaving Covid-treatment, a whistleblower claimed today. The Number 10 insider said a culture of “invincibility” led to civil-servants repeatedly thinking they were above the rules. The insider explained how staff held a party in the garden of Number 10 in [...]
Questions and outrage grow after man who was tasered by police jumps off Chelsea Bridge and dies June 6, 2022 Questions and outage are growing across London after a man who ended up in London’s River Thames following police firing a Taser in a bid to detain him died yesterday. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) confirmed the man, in his early 40s, had passed away in hospital. On Saturday morning, police were called [...]
PM ‘set for’ no confidence vote as soon as this week as Westminster buzzes with Boris speculation June 5, 2022 SPECULATION that the Prime Minister Boris Johnson could face a confidence vote this week has increased after polling suggested the Conservatives could lose a key by-election at the end of this month. A host of reports over the weekend suggested that more than sixty Tory MPs had submitted letters to the party’s backbench chairman, Sir [...]
Man tasered on Chelsea Bridge before falling into Thames dies in hospital June 5, 2022 Press Association A man who ended up in London’s River Thames after police fired a Taser in a bid to detain him has died, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has said. Police were called to Chelsea Bridge Road, west London, on Saturday morning after receiving reports that a man was armed with a [...]
Met Police temporarily evacuate Trafalgar Square over incident with suspicious car June 4, 2022 Police evacuated Trafalgar Square on Saturday morning and advised people not to travel to the central London area. However, the Metropolitan police later confirmed that an “incident” had since been “concluded” and the area would reopen in “due course”. A police spokesperson said the incident was thought to have involved a suspicious item, The Telegraph [...]
Boris Johnson’s political life getting more difficult by the hour as letters of no confidence from Tory MPs pile up fast May 31, 2022 Tory whips are said to be discussing how to fight back if rebels trigger an all-important confidence vote as letters of no confidence in prime minister Boris Johnson are piling up fast. A steady stream of Tories have backed a ballot to decide the PM’s future, or called for Mr Johnson to step down, with [...]
Former Tory attorney general calls for Johnson to resign over Gray report May 30, 2022 A former Conservative attorney-general has called for Boris Johnson to resign over the findings of Sue Gray’s report into the partygate scandal. The Kenilworth and Southam MP, who served as the government’s chief legal adviser under David Cameron and Theresa May, today said Downing Street’s pattern of brazen Covid rule breaking has “done real and [...]
Police chiefs row over top National Crime Agency job May 29, 2022 Two senior police chiefs are embroiled in a public row over who is chosen to be the next head of the National Crime Agency (NCA) amid claims Boris Johnson is trying to handpick his own candidate. Neil Basu, an assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan Police, has demanded an answer from the Home Office on why [...]
Sunak denies using £21bn support package to deflect from No 10 lockdown parties May 27, 2022 Chancellor Rishi Sunak has rejected the notion that the timing of handing out £21bn worth of cost-of-living support to deflect from the controversy over Downing Street lockdown parties. The Chancellor bowed to demands for the UK Government to step in and help households to deal with ballooning energy bills and rising shop prices, which are [...]
Sue Gray report: Johnson says UK must ‘move on’ as he takes ‘full responsibility’ for partygate May 25, 2022 Boris Johnson has said now is the time to “move on” from the partygate scandal, after saying he takes “full responsibility” for the brazen Covid rule-breaking uncovered in Sue Gray’s report. The Prime Minister told the House of Commons that he had “no knowledge” that Covid rules were broken on eight occasions, as deliberated by [...]