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Breaking: Scotland Yard is reviewing its assessment that the Christmas quiz in No 10 on December 15 2020 did not meet the threshold for criminal investigation after an image surfaced of Boris Johnson near a bottle of wine

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Liz Truss has pulled out of a scheduled visit this afternoon No 10 has not given a reason for the last-minute cancellation of the trip, during which she was expected to take questions from broadcasters

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Senior Tory MP Sir Roger Gale demands that Boris Johnson makes a Commons apology to Sir Keir Starmer over the possible role his ‘deliberately carless’ Jimmy Savile smear played in the abuse suffered by the Labour leader today

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🔥 Kemi Badenoch criticises her Cabinet colleague Suella Braverman for her ‘inflammatory’ suggestion that Tory critics like Michael Gove had staged a ‘coup’ over the top rate of income tax

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During their first meeting, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe told Boris Johnson she lived in the "shadow of his words" for years in Iranian detention after he wrongly claimed she was training journalists But, her husband said, there was no apology from the PM

No apology after Nazanin tells PM she lived in ‘shadow of his words’

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband said Boris Johnson did not specifically apologise for his mistake during her Iranian detention

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Five people have been arrested after former Tory party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith was allegedly assaulted by being hit on the head with a traffic cone while on his way to speak at a Brexit event on the fringes of the Conservative conference in Manchester

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Liz Truss says she’s willing to be an unpopular Prime Minister to bring in measures she believes will grow the economy, as she admitted her tax cuts will disproportionately benefit the rich

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@wyliecatherine Here at the ‘Brexit betrayal’ march is a man holding a noose. He gave his name as Laukan Creasey, from Stevenage. I asked why he was carrying it. ‘That’s what the traitor May deserves. That’s what treasonous people get,’ he said.

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The Metropolitan Police said in a statement: “The MPS previously assessed this event and determined that on the basis of the evidence available at that time, it did not meet the threshold for criminal investigation. "That assessment is now being reviewed.”

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Kemi Badenoch says the conference has been ‘marred’ by Tory critics ‘trying to lob grenades’ at the PM, before criticising Suella Braverman’s language ‘I don’t think we should be talking about coups. I think that sort of a language is just too inflammatory’

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This follows @PippaCrerar 's latest scoop

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New: Understand Lord Zac Goldsmith had been told to apologise for his alleged role in the campaign to undermine the Privileges Committee inquiry into Boris Johnson Instead, he resigned criticising Rishi Sunak for being "simply uninterested" in the climate crisis

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#Breaking Foreign Office minister Lord Goldsmith has announced his resignation, accusing the Government of “apathy” over environmental issues

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Sounds like something will be coming from the Privileges Committee on Boris Johnson around midday

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NEW: Understand the privileges committee *COULD* publish evidence it has received about Downing Street parties as soon as this morning. The timetable has been under discussion

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@PippaCrerar The Met Police's statement seems to suggest the Boris Johnson and prosecco photo was not among the 300+ images handed to officers from the Sue Gray inquiry

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Here in a car park in Middlesbrough the “oh...” chants have morphed into “prime minister Corbyn”. The Labour leader will stop here shortly during his circa-500-mile whistle-stop tour from Glasgow to London on the eve of the election

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Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski accused by a senior colleague of spouting “utterly risible, illiterate, immoral and offensive bile” over Ukrainian refugees

Tory MP accused of ‘immoral and offensive bile’ over Ukrainian refugees

Daniel Kawczynski was severely criticised by a senior Conservative colleague.

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James Heappey, the minister sent out to bat for the Government during the broadcast round, concedes that Liz Truss is in a perilous position as PM Pressed how many more mistakes she can make, he tells Sky News: 'I don’t think there’s the opportunity to make any more mistakes'

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Matt Hancock is ‘considering all options’ in response to Isabel Oakeshott's leak of more than 100,000 WhatsApps she received while working on his Pandemic Diaries book ‘She's broken a legal NDA. Her behaviour is outrageous,’ a source close to the former health secretary says.

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The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph: 'Hancock rejected Whitty's advice on care home tests' #TomorrowsPapersToday Read the story here: Sign up for the Front Page newsletter

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Video shows Sir Iain being pursued down the street by a group, with one person shouting "Tory scum" to the banging of a drum

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'It has, I’m afraid, played into the hands of some rather unpleasant people,' Sir Roger told me

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Exc: Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson engaged in an “aggressive” confrontation with MP Andrew Bridgen and a former Conservative councillor in a parliamentary dining room "Hold on grandad, come outside and we’ll sort it out," Anderson allegedly said

Lee Anderson in ‘aggressive’ row with Andrew Bridgen: ‘Outside and we’ll sort it!’

Angry altercation involving Lee Anderson and Andrew Bridgen in parliamentary dining room

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New: Acoba will be writing to Boris Johnson to seek clarification on whether he is the Daily Mail's mystery new columnist billed for Saturday The committee has not received an application to take on the role from the former PM

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Fascinating interview with Keir Starmer and Gordon Brown as they launch a blueprint for democratic reform Brown argues there's more momentum behind Labour than ahead of Blair's 1997 landslide, with a 'more sweeping and more noticeable desire' for change

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She effectively confirmed she’d cut National Insurance, ace the corporation tax hike and scrap the cap on bankers’ bonuses during interviews with broadcasters on the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building

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Asked about Harry and Meghan's 'near catastrophic car chase' by @ChrisMasonBBC , Sunak said he wasn't aware of it and discussed putting 20,000 more police on UK streets Told the incident was in NYC, he said: 'Cars in New York are not really my priority or my responsibility'

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Full story on the police reviewing whether to criminally investigate the Downing Street Christmas quiz after an image emerged of Boris Johnson and colleagues near an open bottle of sparkling wine

Police reconsider whether to probe No 10 Christmas quiz after new photo emerges

Scotland Yard said it is reconsidering whether the event during Covid restrictions meets the threshold for criminal investigation.

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In incendiary remarks, Donald Trump falsely claimed he has already beaten Joe Biden to win the election and threatened to drag the vote to the US supreme court amid what he calls a 'fraud on the American public'

Trump vows to drag election to the courts as knife-edge counts are under way

The process to find a winner could go on for days.

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🍾 Thrilled to have joined the top-notch Playbook team 🍾 We’ve got quite the year ahead

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BREAK: Dominic Raab is now being investigated over five fresh formal complaints relating to conduct at the Ministry of Justice Rishi Sunak asked senior lawyer Adam Tolley KC to consider the new allegations, taking the total number being investigated to eight, No 10 says

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@wyliecatherine And here at the ‘Brexit betrayal’ march outside The Dorchester hotel are Ukip flags, as well as those for Donald Trump. There are chants for Tommy Robinson too

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Normal life will not resume for at least six months, says deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries, but this doesn't mean half a year of total lockdown

Covid-19: Normal life will not resume for six months, says Government doctor

Dr Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, said social distancing measures will be lifted gradually.

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Officials investigating one of the first cases in the UK of the Omicron coronavirus variant are searching for potential contacts of a KFC in Brentwood as far back as nine days ago, raising questions over how long the new variant has been in the country

Covid tracers in Omicron case seek contacts from more than week ago

Essex council’s focus on visitors to KFC branch on 19 November raises questions over how long variant has been in country

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New: More than £5.6 million could be spent on an awareness campaign ahead of voters using ID for the first time in May’s elections Angela Rayner says it’s an “outrage” public money is being spent on the “unnecessary” move that may disenfranchise millions

Plans for voter ID under fire as Electoral Commission launches campaign

Ministers are introducing mandatory photo ID in Britain, despite concerns the move could disenfranchise voters.

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Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth has done the rounds of the Commons press gallery hawking this pamphlet fit with a frankly chilling photoshop job of Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss

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🚨Fresh by-election headache for Rishi Sunak klaxon 🚨 Chris Skidmore confirms to me that he'll resign from the Commons next week when Parliament returns

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@RhonddaBryant The Conservatives have now amended their statement to say the referral will be to the commissioner rather than the committee

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Sky’s @BethRigby asked if she’s willing to be an unpopular PM with her tax cutting policies “Yes. Yes, I am,” Truss replied She argued driving up growth will ultimately put more money in people’s pockets even if tax cuts first benefited the wealthier disproportionately

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Tory Neil Parish is resigning after admitting to twice watching pornography in Parliament, saying he first accidentally viewed it after looking at tractors online before then acting deliberately in the Commons chamber

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“The situation was, funnily enough it was tractors I was looking at, so I did get into another website with sort of a very similar name and I watched it for a bit which I shouldn’t have done,” Neil Parish tells the BBC

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Speaking to broadcasters in Rwanda, Boris Johnson has said he will “listen” to voters but will “keep going” after the Tories suffered a double by-election defeat

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The UK’s evacuation effort in Afghanistan will continue despite the “barbaric” terrorism attack at Kabul Airport, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said via @Geri_E_L_Scott

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Breaking: Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has sanctioned Uzbekistan-born Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, whose commercial links to Everton football club have been suspended, and former Russian deputy prime minister Igor Shuvalov

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Lord Kilclooney has said "there's nothing racist" in his tweet referring to vice president-elect Kamala Harris solely as "the Indian". Here's our exchange over the phone earlier

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Just Stop Oil protesters were moved from the road to the Cenotaph by police rather than targeting the war memorial One officer says they were moved from the busy road ‘for their own safety’ A cuffed activist says they were arrested in the road and ‘dragged’ to the cenotaph

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Boris Johnson says he’s “thinking actively” about fighting TWO more elections despite Tory MPs plotting to oust him

Boris Johnson aiming to stay in Downing Street until 2030s

He urged Tory MPs plotting to oust him not to focus on the issues he has ‘stuffed up’.

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The European Union has backed down on its threat to override part of the Brexit deal on Northern Ireland after widespread condemnation of the move as part of its export controls on coronavirus vaccines. Well, that was quite the evening...

EU ends threat to override NI Brexit deal in bid to control vaccine exports

The European Union has backed down on its threat to override part of the Brexit deal on Northern Ireland after widespread condemnation of the move as part ...

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A Conservative source tells me that Neil Parish is 'likely' to resign today despite the MP initially resisting quitting while being investigated for allegedly watching pornography in the Commons chamber Told though that nothing is confirmed yet

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Here in Kigali, we've learned that Britain has made payments to Rwanda under the £120 million asylum scheme, and it has started spending the money despite the policy being grounded by legal challenges

UK has made payments to Rwanda over stalled asylum scheme

The Rwandan government said it had begun spending the cash to be ready in time for last week’s flight.

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@wyliecatherine Along with the Ukip flags are those for Generation Identity. It’s described by anti-fascist campaigners Hope Not Hate as a ‘far-right’ movement that is ‘strongly anti-Muslim’

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Simon Hoare criticised his fellow Tory for tweeting that 'British left wing parties' calling for the UK to take in more Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia's bombs were 'illiterate and immoral'

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What utterly risible, illiterate immoral and offensive bile. Haven’t you heard what @BorisJohnson has been saying? You do not speak for the Tory Party. I’m not sure you speak for humanity #whitehotfury

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Boris Johnson says ‘of course we will publish everything we can’ when I asked if he will commit to publishing the full Sue Gray inquiry, including the 300+ photos investigators have unearthed

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Downing Street has said Boris Johnson did not sack Matt Hancock as health secretary, or urge him to quit over the scandal, shortly after the Prime Minister suggested otherwise

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Jeremy Corbyn is addressing a crowd in Bedford during his penultimate campaign stop of the General Election. He says the polls open in 12 hours’ time and activists need to get out there to ensure every Labour supporter casts their vote

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@wyliecatherine Tommy Robinson is here, courting chants. “We want Britain out.” A line of police are leading the march forward

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The Conservatives have removed the whip from MP Julian Knight after a complaint was made to the Metropolitan Police tonight, a spokeswoman for chief whip Simon Hart has said

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Our story on @PA so far:

Five arrested after Sir Iain Duncan Smith ‘hit with a traffic cone’

Sir Iain was on his way to the Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel where he was involved in a talk with Brexit minister Lord Frost

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“My crime, my most biggest crime, is that on another occasion I went in a second time, and that was deliberate," he added.

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Conservative Neil Parish rejects calls to stand down immediately as an MP while being investigated for allegedly watching pornography in the Commons chamber - and suggests he may have opened a video accidentally

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Brandon Lewis has said that shortages on supermarket shelves in Northern Ireland is 'nothing to do with leaving the EU' But tonight International Trade Secretary Liz Truss accepted Brexit, as well as Covid-19, has played a role in the disruption

Liz Truss accepts Brexit contributed to shortages in Northern Ireland

International Trade Secretary Liz Truss has accepted that Brexit contributed to shortages on supermarket shelves in Northern Ireland.

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As a chieftain of a Scottish clan, Sebastian Leslie, the father of Game Of Thrones star Rose, asked Anderson whether he wants to use “pistols or claymores?” in a reference to ancient dualling traditions

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Or it was, Daniel Kawczynski has now seemingly deleted it And blocked me

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Took a screenshot beforehand for posterity though:

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Jeremy Corbyn has announced here in Lancaster University his plans to make broadband free for everybody. He says it will be in part paid for by giant corporations. Including Facebook and Google, he says to cheers

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🚨Boris Johnson committed a “clear breach” of the rules by only informing the Acoba anti-corruption watchdog of his appointment as a Daily Mail columnist half an hour before the public announcement, the committee says

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Boris Johnson acknowledged the results were “tough” but is clearly planning on fighting on as Prime Minister

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But Neil Parish denied watching the video to intimidate women, saying: “I mean I have 12 years in Parliament and probably got one of the best reputations ever - or did have.”

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No 10 says Boris Johnson may have to self-isolate if Alok Sharma tests positive for coronavirus after the PM, the Business Secretary and Chancellor Rishi Sunak held a 45-minute talk in No 10 on Tuesday. Sharma is still awaiting his result.

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New: Keir Starmer tells Rishi Sunak to “come clean” and publish his financial interests today, as the PM is under investigation over a possible failure to make a declaration to MPs “Don’t hide behind the process, just come clean and tell everybody what the interest is"

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MP Neil Coyle is recommended for five days suspension from the Commons for two incidents in Parliament's Strangers' Bar One was a 'foul-mouthed and drunken abuse' and the other using 'abusive language with racial overtones' to a journalist

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Boris Johnson demanded that “BIGGER FINES” are the overriding message during the opening up from lockdown restrictions in summer 2020, a handwritten note shown to the Covid inquiry shows Counsel Hugo Keith notes the “crushing irony”

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Full story via @PA

Truss ‘willing to be unpopular PM’ with measures targeting economic growth

Liz Truss confirmed she would be reversing the national insurance hike and axing the planned increase to corporation tax.

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Writing tomorrow’s Playbook Send me your stories, your wisdom and your tips!

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Well... here's our full story on Neil Parish resigning after admitting to watching pornography in the Commons, tractor excuse and all

Tory Neil Parish admits watching porn in Commons and quits as MP

The Conservative, a farmer by trade, suggests the first time was an accident while looking at a website about tractors.

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New: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will meet with the King at Windsor Castle this afternoon

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Home Secretary James Cleverly says that Robert Jenrick has resigned as immigration minister "That has been confirmed," Mr Cleverly finally says after repeatedly being asked

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The Competition and Markets Authority says it will be “carefully considering” the proposals by elite football clubs’ to create a breakaway European Super League after a call for an investigation by Labour's @Alison_McGovern

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I understand the Foreign Office is preparing to announce sanctions against 65 more entities and individuals, including Russian billionaire Eugene Shvidler and Galina Danilchenko, who was installed by Moscow as the mayor of Melitopol in southeastern Ukraine

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Arriving in Brussels for the Nato summit on Ukraine, Boris Johnson says the UK will sanction the Wagner Group, a paramilitary organisation seen as Vladimir Putin’s private army

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With Suella Braverman now backing Liz Truss for the Tory leadership, it seems the Conservative right could now be coalescing around the Foreign Secretary Steve Baker messages: "Suella has my complete loyalty. What she has decided, I will support”

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The result is still too close to call, with votes still being counted in key battleground states. But Mr Trump has long been expected to take legal action if his Democratic challenger did not get a resounding win. Here's a look at how that may happen

How Trump could challenge US election in court if Biden doesn’t win emphatically

Donald Trump has raised the prospect of a legal battle.

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😬 Tory moderates with the One Nation grouping are 'very nervous' about the implications of Rishi Sunak's Rwanda legislation, a source says, and his press conference seems only to have heightened their concerns

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Activist who says he was tortured in Bahrain makes police report after Tory MP Bob Stewart told him to 'go back to Bahrain'

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✈️Boris Johnson-backing MP Sir James Duddridge says the former PM told him he is "up for it" and will fly back from his Caribbean holiday to stand in the Tory leadership race "He’s going to fly back. He said, ‘I’m flying back Dudders. We are going to do this. I’m up for it’.”

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Unequivocally, Keir Starmer says Jeremy Corbyn will not stand as a Labour candidate at the next general election

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Republic’s Graham Smith said a chief inspector and two other Met officers personally apologised 'They seemed rather embarrassed to be honest,' he told me 'I said for the record I won’t accept the apology. We have a lot of questions to answer and we will be taking action'

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#Breaking The Metropolitan Police has expressed “regret” that six anti-monarchy protesters from the Republic campaign were arrested ahead of the King’s coronation, after deciding no charges will be brought against them

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John Bercow warns Boris Johnson against disobeying the law over Brexit and threatens 'procedural creativity' in Parliament would thwart any attempt

Bercow warns Boris Johnson against disobeying law over Brexit

John Bercow has warned Boris Johnson against disobeying the law by not asking for a Brexit delay, threatening that extra “procedural creativity” in Parliam...

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Allies of Boris Johnson have been urging the committee to publish the defence 'as soon as possible' Worth noting that he was first asked to provide written evidence in July last year

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A statement from the Privileges Committee says that the 'appropriate redactions to protect the identity of some witnesses' are being made but Johnson's written defence will be published 'as soon as is practicably possible'

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🚨Polling guru John Curtice reckons there’s just a 1% chance of the Conservatives forming the next government 🚨 Read all about the dire warnings of Rishi Sunak’s electoral chances in this morning’s London Playbook:

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Boris Johnson cancels his visit to Delhi next week, as the coronavirus crisis deepens in India and concerns grow over a new variant hitting the nation

Johnson cancels India trip due to coronavirus situation

Boris Johnson has cancelled his visit to Delhi next week, as the coronavirus crisis deepened in India and concerns grew over a new variant hitting the nati...

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Lib Dem leader Ed Davey said: "It is completely outrageous for the Tories to be trying to weaken the Electoral Commission, especially while it is investigating Boris Johnson over the refurbishment of his flat. This is a case of the poacher trying to shackle the gamekeeper."

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Bye-bye Boris? Three weeks after resigning, removal vans are at the grace and favour home he lived in as foreign secretary

Removal van spotted outside Boris Johnson’s grace and favour home | ITV News

The ex-Cabinet minister appears to be moving out of the official residence he enjoyed as foreign secretary three weeks after quitting. | ITV National News

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One assessment from within No 10 shared with the Covid inquiry

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@PickardJE I can attest to Corbyn's no-go zone battlebus having followed it around for weeks on end using trains, shoe leather and hitchhiking

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Liz Truss IS currently meeting with 1922 chair Sir Graham Brady, Downing Street confirms

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Tory MP Caroline Nokes has criticised Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries for using “considerable influence and power in the media” to bluntly dismiss her allegation of inappropriate touching against Stanley Johnson, the Prime Minister’s father

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No 10 source says the investigation relates to the shares Rishi Sunak's wife Akshata Murthy holds in Koru Kids, the childcare agency that benefited from the latest Budget

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#Breaking Parliament’s standards watchdog has opened an investigation into Rishi Sunak over a possible failure to declare an interest

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Lots of interesting stuff in the Sage minutes/documents today, including scientists supporting the use of face coverings weeks before ministers' advice and evidence that 50% of people with Covid symptoms were not isolating for 7 days

Scientists recommended face coverings weeks before Government advice

Scientists advising on the Government’s coronavirus response concluded there was enough evidence to recommend the use of face coverings weeks before minist...

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Tory MP Michael Fabricant criticised for describing pro-Palestine demonstrators clashing with police as “primitives”. Hope Not Hate called for his suspension from the Tories, accusing him of “hateful racism that stirs up division”

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Health Secretary Sajid Javid is facing criticism for suggesting people have "cowered" from Covid-19 as he announced he has made a “full recovery” from an infection

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Sam Blewett

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Downing Street’s account of the meeting so far has not contained any reference to Boris Johnson bringing up human rights abuses or getting any sort of commitment on increasing oil production

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Suella Braverman says it’s an ‘exciting time to be a Conservative’ as she joins Michael Gove, who she earlier accused of staging a ‘coup’, on a panel discussing the ‘future of conservatism’

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