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 [...]
Sue Gray day: Who is the cat-loving former pub landlady from Tottenham who probed partygate? May 25, 2022 It’s D-Day in Westminster. Sue Gray has published her long-awaited report in the Downing Street parties during lockdown. The document is currently with the Prime Minister. Gray took on the civil service investigation into allegations of coronavirus rule-breaking at No 10 in December. As a result, over the course of the last six months, Gray [...]
D-Day for Boris Johnson as Downing Street hold its breath ahead of today’s Sue Gray partygate report May 25, 2022 The long-awaited Sue Gray report – into Downing Street parties during the coronavirus lockdowns – is to be published today. Downing Street is holding is breath as it is widely expected the document may contain some harsh conclusions. In fact, the senior civil servant’s report is expected to be heavily critical of the culture in [...]
Partygate: Khan writes to Met to demand answers on why PM only received one fine May 24, 2022 Sadiq Khan has written to the Metropolitan Police to demand a “detailed explanation” of why Boris Johnson was not given a second Covid fine, after pictures yesterday emerged of him drinking at a work event. The London mayor invoked his powers as London’s police and crime commissioner to ask acting Met commissioner Sir Stephen House [...]
Photos reveal Johnson drinking at event where he was not fined by the Met May 23, 2022 Fresh photos have shown Boris Johnson toasting and drinking with staff members in Downing Street at an event that was investigated by the Metropolitan Police. The photos, published by ITV, show the Prime Minister drinking with several blurred out people in Downing Street on 13 November 2020 at what is believed to be a leaving [...]