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Some news 🚨 The Sunday Times is launching a politics newsletter to take you through to the general election. Written by @ShippersUnbound and me, it will be landing in inboxes every Sunday morning at 8am Read more about it and sign-up here

Introducing your new Sunday politics newsletter

Join us behind the scenes in Westminster and on the election trail

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Harry Yorke

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2 years

Boris Johnson says it is “simply incorrect” to say he intervened in Lebedev’s peerage after Holac’s initial rejection based on a security assessment. His denial is at direct odds with the multiple sources The Sunday Times spoke to, and later those who confirm story to @Peston

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EXCLUSIVE: The Sunday Times has seen messages from Carrie Johnson, appearing to show she had a gathering in No11 flat on evening of PM's 56th birthday They are the first hard evidence of a gathering in flat - and for the first time, no1 is denying 1/

Unseen text messages hint at Carrie Johnson’s second party at No 10

Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, has been told of previously unseen messages suggesting that Carrie Johnson held a law-breaking gathering in the No 10 flat.The head of the civil service has been...

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EXCLUSIVE: PM attended a secret Tory fundraising dinner attended by at least one donor with Russian links on the night Putin invade Ukraine He told the approx 75 attendees he needed to leave early to deal with the crisis. Gove and Wallace also there

Boris Johnson was at Tory fundraiser with Russian donor on night of Ukraine invasion

Boris Johnson was at a Conservative Party fundraising dinner attended by at least one donor with links to Russia on the night Vladimir Putin launched his war in

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1 year

EXCLUSIVE 🚨: Suella Braverman asked Home Office civil servants to help her avoid a speeding fine and points on her licence by arranging a private one-to-one driving awareness course Serious Qs over whether she may have breached ministerial code 1/4

Suella Braverman: No 10 has ‘full confidence’ despite row over speeding course

Suella Braverman asked civil servants to help her avoid a speeding fine and points on her licence by arranging a private one-to-one driving awareness course. Th

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4 years

Having spoken to a few Labour contacts today, clear Sir Keir Starmer's strategy on Cummings is to keep quiet and let Conservative MPs do all the talking. Told that when asked who was doing the broadcast round for the party this morning, one official replied: "Michael Gove".

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5 years

John Mann chuckling away in the background as Anna Soubry says a general election "will solve nothing". "It would get rid of you," he quips.

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2 years

There is more to come on partygate… Make sure you pick up a copy of The Sunday Times tomorrow 👀

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2 years

Just spotted Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 committee, in Parliament Wonder what he's doing here during recess (coincidence?)👀

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Striking feature of our Lebedev report is how officials around Johnson have been raising eyebrows for a decade - several from City Hall say he should have known of MI6 concerns - one from Foreign Office said they were alarmed at trips to Italy - No10 aides objected to peerage

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Exclusive: Alan Bates became so exasperated with Ed Davey (when post office minister) he stopped engaging with him He told Davey in 2011: "having nailed your colours to [Post Office's] mast...there was little point in continuing a dialogue with you" 1/

How Ed Davey and ministers shrugged off warnings about Post Office scandal

Correspondence between the campaigner Alan Bates and Ed Davey and his successors reveals how they continued to toe the line on Horizon

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2 years

Sir Roger Gale, the local MP at Manston, says that originally he thought the Home Office had found it difficult to find new hotels to transfer migrants. This morning he tells BBCR4T he’s been told it was a deliberate policy decision not to book hotels

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5 years

James Dyson, the business face of Brexit, has announced that Dyson will move its corporate head office to Singapore. Unbelievable.

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1 year

Also worth bearing in mind, when ministers are asked about the BBC Chairman today, that Richard Sharp is not only long-term friends with Boris Johnson He is also Rishi Sunak’s former boss

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Breaking: The intelligence and security committee has begun looking into Lord Lebedev's peerage It says the government failed to provide information requested to the deadline it had set and has only received in the past 24 hours

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4 years

Brilliant line of questioning from Greg Clark of Huawei UK exec Jeremy Thompson just now. GC: Are Huawei UK directors free to express their views? JT: Yes GC: What is your view of Hong Kong national security law? JT: Okay...I'm a telecomms executive...I don't have a view.

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EXCLUSIVE : Kate Josephs, the former head of the Government unit responsible for drawing covid-19 restrictions, was given a leaving do in the Cabinet Office on December 17 2020 - the day before the Number 10 Xmas Party

Exclusive: Woman who ‘wrote government Covid rules’ held ‘boozy’ party during Christmas restrictions

The Telegraph learns that ‘dozens’ of officials from the Cabinet Office’s Covid taskforce attended the event to mark Kate Josephs' departure

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6 months

Exclusive: Michael Gove, Matt Hancock and two other ministers who served during covid-19 are among witnesses who have been interviewed by the National Crime Agency as part of its investigation into the PPE firm linked to Michelle Mone w/ @DipeshGadher

Michael Gove and Matt Hancock quizzed over Michelle Mone’s PPE firm

National Crime Agency is interviewing witnesses as part of its investigation into PPE Medpro, a supplier of facemasks and medical gowns

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2 years

A POTUS statement on Boris Johnson's resignation, which makes absolutely no mention of Boris Johnson...

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JUST IN: @POTUS Biden statement on @BorisJohnson ’s resignation: “the special relationship between our people remains strong and enduring. I look forward to continuing our close cooperation with the government of the United Kingdom, as well as our Allies and partners…”

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Exclusive: The Home Office papers that show Suella Braverman was warned over and over about the legal risk of prolonged detention of migrants at Manston The Sunday Times today takes you through five submissions from mid-September to late October

Suella Braverman was ‘warned again and again’ over migrant crisis at Manston

Suella Braverman has been accused of misleading parliament over the migrant crisis after leaked documents showed she was warned repeatedly about unlawfully detaining people.Last weekend, The Sunday...

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1 year

With pressure growing on Richard Sharp over his role in talks over Boris Johnson's loan facility, it is worth reminding people that there are two parts to this story The other part of this is Sam Blyth (Johnson's guarantor) and his bid to become CEO of the British Council 1/8

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As I reported this weekend, for the first time no one is denying that a gathering took place The Sunday Times has seen evidence that cannot be disputed There appears to be no work meeting defence for this event

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🎂 No10 NOT denying a gathering took place in Downing Street flat on evening of Boris Johnson's 56th birthday in June 2020

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A source who was present at a dinner attended by hedge-fund managers a week ago revealed: “They were all supporters of Truss and every one of them was shorting the pound.” How the 'Biscotti Budget' came to be, w/ @ShippersUnbound & @cazjwheeler

‘Biscotti mini-budget’ exposes gulf between Liz Truss and Keir Starmer — and more tax cuts are on...

Most people visiting Greenwich early last month were tourists, lazing in a park parched dry by the summer heatwave, sweating their way up the hill to the observ

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Update on the Boris Johnson phone that was switched off in April 2021 and to be never switched on again Times reporting that covid inquiry has agreed with Cab Office that it can be turned on by security experts But here's a fun fact for you.... 1/3

Baroness Hallett Covid inquiry: Johnson’s old phone to be searched

Security experts are to turn on an old phone belonging to Boris Johnson to try to extract WhatsApp messages revealing discussions with government figures at t

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2 years

The aide has come forward to provide the messages after expressing concerns about the integrity of both the Met and Gray inquiries. They provided the messages to the Met and say they offered to show Gray inquiry the messages in person in January - and again in May 8/

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EXCLUSIVE w/ @Gabriel_Pogrund 🚨 Boris Johnson funded his lifestyle in No10 through a credit facility of up to £800,000 underwritten by a multi-millionaire and distant relative Sam Blyth also gave Johnsons free use of his Caribbean villa 1/4

Boris Johnson and the multimillionaire Canadian cousin who lent a hand

Boris Johnson was lying on a sun lounger at a luxury villa in the Dominican Republic when news reached him that Liz Truss had been ousted. He abandoned the holiday, swapped his Bermuda shorts for a...

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EXCLUSIVE w/ @Gabriel_Pogrund 🚨 The BBC chairman helped arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000 for Boris Johnson weeks before the then PM selected him for role Johnson was told to end Richard Sharp’s involvement by Cab Office (1/7)

The BBC chairman, the prime minister and the £800,000 loan guarantee

The BBC chairman helped to arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000 for Boris Johnson weeks before the then prime minister recommended him for the role

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6 years

Imagine being Phillip Lee. Resigning from a ministerial post to back your friend and his amendment on a meaningful vote, only for said friend to then to vote with the Government you just resigned from. Oh, and your constituents want you deselected. Politics.

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2 years

Number 10 say the event was a longstanding diary engagement, he was there only for beginning, and PM could not have known about invasion. But Western nations - and Johnson personally - had been warning for days it was imminent.

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Fireworks in the Commons. Labour's John Cryer claims PM's address one of the most "contemptuous" he has ever seen. Bercow erupts at chuntering Tory MP. Asks MPs to "grow up" and "raise the level". Leadsom retorts his outburst doesn't help. He orders her to sit down

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Few more observations on Sharp story & Johnson £800k loan: - We were told that it was used by Johnson to finance lifestyle/help repay loans relating to wallpaper-gate. Not denied by team Johnson - Blyth’s involvement clearly risked a conflict (British council) And yet…

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When the civil servants refused to help, she turned to a political aide for assistance. They tried to get the course provider to agree to the arrangements The course provider refused 3/4

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Braverman, who is in charge of UK law enforcement, later pulled out and opted to take the three points on her licence Sources close to her insist she has not broken ministerial code 4/4

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2 years

They instead implied the allegation was getting mixed up with the legal family gathering outdoors The messages seen by The Sunday Times suggest that was at best misleading, at worst a lie. 7/

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3 years

This may be one of the funniest things I've ever watched at a Parliamentary select committee. Barry Gardiner and Neil Parish go full Handforth Parish council over 🐟🐟

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EXCLUSIVE w/ @Gabriel_Pogrund The head of MI6 had concerns about Boris Johnson’s friend Evgeny Lebedev almost a decade ago In 2013, Sir John Sawers repeatedly rejected bid by KGB agent’s son to meet at MI6 HQ No10 doesn't deny PM knew about incident

How Boris Johnson’s friendship with Evgeny Lebedev deepened despite MI6 concerns

On March 17, 2020, Boris Johnson learnt that British intelligence had warned against granting a peerage to his close friend Evgeny Lebedev on national security

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The existence of the messages has now been flagged to Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary, in a letter also seen by the ST. The letter was sent by a former Downing St aide who received them. The aide has now offered to share them with Case 2/

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EXCLUSIVE 🚨 w/ @Gabriel_Pogrund & @cazjwheeler Boris Johnson’s meetings with BBC chair Richard Sharp, his cousin Sam Blyth, & Lord Brownlow are among those referred to police Also on list: a visit by two of Carrie Johnson’s friends to Chequers 1/4

Johnson allies are named in Chequers diaries

Boris Johnson’s meetings with the BBC chairman, his cousin and a Tory peer who paid for his flat refurbishment are among those referred to the police over conc

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Exclusive: Sources claim Suella Braverman received legal advice three weeks ago that the government was illegally detaining asylum seekers at Manston It is alleged - and denied by her - that she failed to heed the advice by refusing to procure hotels

Suella Braverman ‘ignored advice’ that detaining asylum seekers was breaking the law

Suella Braverman has been accused of failing to act on legal advice that the government was illegally detaining thousands of asylum seekers. The move could cost taxpayers an expensive court action....

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The arrangement, which the Home Secretary sought after being caught speeding last summer, would have meant she would not have to attend an in-person course with other motorists, or an online one where her name and face would be visible to other participants 2/4

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The PM also saw siblings outside in Downing St garden that eve, within the rule of six for outdoor gatherings at the time When @PaulBrandITV reported allegations that a third gathering with family friends had taken place in flat in Jan, Number 10 said “totally untrue” 6/

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They show that at 6.15pm on 19 June 2020, Mrs Johnson was informed by the aide that the Prime Minister was on his way up to the flat. Mrs Johnson replied that she was already in the flat with at least two male friends. She used a very specific term to refer to the friends. 3/

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EXC: Carrie Johnson did instigate the PM's birthday gathering on 19 June 2020, messages suggest. Sue Gray inquiry is looking into message sent by Mrs Johnson to an official asking them to get staff together. She said she would organise a cake

Carrie Johnson offered to bring cake to Boris Johnson’s alleged lockdown-busting birthday party

Prime Minister’s wife asked official to organise gathering in Downing Street for her husband’s 56th birthday

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EXCLUSIVE w/ @Gabriel_Pogrund Boris Johnson was told to stop seeking Richard Sharp's "advice about your personal financial matters" days before announcing him as BBC chairman The Sunday Times today reveals bombshell letter given to him by Simon Case 1/8

Boris Johnson was told: stop seeking Richard Sharp’s advice on ‘financial matters’

Leaked Cabinet Office memo warned then prime minister to stop consulting a friend days before he was appointed BBC chairman

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5 years

Tonight, senior sources in DUP have told me that the confidence and supply agreement is over - unless Theresa May goes. They say the future of the agreement “depends on who the leader of the Conservative Party is”.

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At the time meetings 2+ people indoors was banned PM had already attended birthday gathering with staff at lunchtime, for which he was FPNd. Messages from Mrs Johnson at 6.17pm, June 11, show she suggested staff gather to wish him HB. She also offered to bring cake 5/

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A reminder that as Johnson prepares to do battle with gov, evidence of potential covid rule breaking in his residence was available a year ago I saw messages from Carrie Johnson suggesting friends were in the flat the night of Johnson's 56th bday It was never investigated

Harry Yorke

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EXCLUSIVE: The Sunday Times has seen messages from Carrie Johnson, appearing to show she had a gathering in No11 flat on evening of PM's 56th birthday They are the first hard evidence of a gathering in flat - and for the first time, no1 is denying 1/

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EXC: The Telegraph can reveal tonight details of the three additional alleged parties under investigation by the Met They are leaving events thrown for a snr diplomat in America, a military commander and a snr culture department official

Boris Johnson was in his Downing Street flat the night of 'Abba party' being investigated by police

PM was seen heading up to the apartment on the night of the gathering convened to celebrate Dominic Cummings' exit from No 10

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11 months

Here's the key extract 3/3 What was the other purpose, why was it switched back on, was it done so with security experts/approval?

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4 years

Carole is now repeatedly putting out alarmist/misleading information on coronavirus. We are currently fifth in the world for testing and one of the highest in Europe.

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The WHO says test, test, test. Watch the video below to learn how China managed the crisis. It tested, tested, tested. UK government policy is not to test. No other country on earth is managing this like ours. Why? Based on what data? What assumptions?

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🚨EXCLUSIVE: The Lord Speaker has intervened over Johnson's plans to push through dozens of peerages before his departure He has written to Sunak and Truss urging them to show restraint and warning Johnson's approach risks undermining public trust

Lords put spanner in Boris Johnson’s plan to create dozens of peers

Boris Johnson’s attempt to flood the Lords with dozens of new members could be derailed. The Lord Speaker warns today that the prime minister’s plans risk undermining “public confidence in our...

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The messages suggest the PM also entered the flat to find friends present that evening. Neither Mrs Johnson’s spokesman, or No10 dispute this. Neither side has answered question of whether they thought it was legal. 4/

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Exclusive: Sources say that Mark Littlewood, the head of the IEA think tank and champion of Trussonomics, is no longer on Liz Truss's resignation hons list He does not appear to have passed Holac vetting.

Liz Truss resignation honour list: champion of ‘mini-budget’ denied peerage

The head of a libertarian think tank credited with influencing the policies of Liz Truss’s government has been stopped from receiving a peerage.Mark Littlewood

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Candy, now part of a takeover bid for Chelsea, was also heard discussing football and the club with Gove during the evening Gove and Candy categorically reject suggestions they were discussing the potential implications of an invasion for the club + Abramovich.

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5 years

Marr: "Why do you want to abolish Ofsted?" JC: "Because it is a very assertive form of investigation into a school. They turn up every few years and then make a decision about it." Yes, that is indeed what an inspectorate does.

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They had every opportunity to claim that yesterday. They did not. And if she was simply asking for advice on how to arrange a course, why did she then ask a political aide to arrange it, rather than doing it herself.

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NEW: Sources close to Home Secretary suggest that she had simply asked officials for advice on how to arrange a driving awareness course. This is understood to have included raising the possibility of a private one-to-one course (but not directing them to arrange one)...

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This week has been a difficult one for me personally The invasion has brought back awful memories of 2014, when my childhood friend Richard Mayne was murdered when MH17 was shot down over Ukraine Today, his dad, Simon, has written a very powerful piece for The Sunday Times

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Gray team disputes that they were ever offered to be shown in January, and that aide should have handed over copies. They say that by May 19 the inquiry was already concluded and strongly reject claim they failed to follow up evidence. 9/

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BBC job application says: "You cannot be considered for a public appointment if you fail to declare any conflict of interest" Candidates must disclose anything which could later undermine confidence in apptment Sharp did not tell the panel, nor MPs on his pre-hearing (6/7)

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Exclusive: In 2012 Jeremy Corbyn protested outside the Royal Courts of Justice against extradition of British terror suspects to the US 30 yards away, Anjem Choudary was holding a second demonstration against the same extraditions.

Jeremy Corbyn protested against extradition of terror suspects outside court as Anjem Choudary held...

Jeremy Corbyn protested against the extradition of British terror suspects to the United States as Anjem Choudary, a mentor to the London Bridge attacker, led a rally for the same cause just yards...

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Johnson then says it would be “extraordinary” if he intervened. He then dodged question when asked if he met Lebedev two days after Holac blocked his peerage in March 2020

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A spokeswoman for Mrs Johnson said: “Sue Gray was aware of these exchanges.. “Staff were given ample opportunity to present evidence including these messages and all relevant information was passed to the Metropolitan Police for investigation.” 10/

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Oh dear. Jeremy Corbyn’s media moment in Peterborough is being ruined by a very loud woman shouting “racist c***” and “you’re a liar” over and over.

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5 years

Nothing to see here, just a Tory MP openly promoting the Brexit Party...

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Some fantastic candidates: Brexit Party Announce Five New Candidates via @GuidoFawkes

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Bad evening for Labour. First senior adviser Lord Kerslake suggests Corbyn’s leadership could be up for discussion in hung parliament/confidence and supply talks. Now chief rabbi says Corbyn’s unfit to become PM. Tomorrow he’s got Andrew Neil...

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Four months on from us laying out the Blyth-Sharp-Johnson stories, not a single probe has been carried out into the fact that the advice Johnson was given on the loan by Simon Case was rendered effectively void by Blyth’s candidacy to become chief exec of the British Council

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This man's reaction to seeing Katie Hopkins at Tory Party Conference is exceptional. #cpc17

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Worth noting that Number 10 did not dispute any of the allegations we put to them surrounding the peerage being unblocked when we contacted them on Saturday. The only thing disputed was the suggestion Lebedev’s Evening Standard received preferential treatment for advertising

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Labour wrote to the Commissioner shortly after our investigation calling for him to look into it There has been radio silence ever since…

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EXCLUSIVE🚨 The Cabinet Office’s propriety and ethics team told Downing St there were complaints against Dominic Raab, including some in writing, when Rishi Sunak reappointed him to government Number 10 is not disputing that this took place

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Blyth was put forward on a FCDO four person recommendation list. He somehow magically appeared on it. He was told to drop out only after British Council chair discovered his familial link to Johnson You might expect a formal government probe on how that happened, right?

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EXCLUSIVE: A hereditary peer & Tory whip offered to 'open doors' to ministers and figures in No10 for a company seeking approval for covid sanitiser products Leaked emails shows how Earl of Shrewsbury discussed plans to meet with snr gov & Parli figures

Peer earned £3,000 a month after offer to ‘open doors’ for Covid firm

A hereditary peer offered to “open doors” at the top of the government for a company lobbying ministers for regulatory approval of its Covid-19 sanitiser produ

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The phone has in fact been turned on again since Johnson had the security advice back in April 2021 Lord Geidt revealed as much when he issued Johnson with a telling off over wallpapergate back in December of that year 2/3

Letter from Lord Geidt to the Prime Minister, 17 December 2021 (HTML)

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Johnson gave an introductory speech, citing the party’s achievements in delivering Brexit and keeping Corbyn out of Number 10 Gove then gave follow up speech. There was an auction. Nick Candy, the billionaire property donor, bid £40,000 for a Brexit poster, acc to sources

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Crikey. PM says more than 81,000 tests were performed yesterday. Based on that daily increase it sounds like Matt Hancock will have got very close to hitting his 100,000 target today. Credit where credit is due, the expansion of UK testing has been pretty rapid.

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And what about the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards? Why - given Blyth’s role as guarantor clearly represented a perceived conflict (remember, the loan financed his time in office) - was Johnson not required to register it in his MPs’ register of interests?

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Harry Yorke

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1 year

And when journalists call the Commissioner's office asking for updates, the stock response is: the website is up to date. So we have no idea if he is looking into it, plans to look into it, or has decided against doing so We should know 8/8

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Harry Yorke

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1 year

Nick is *completely* missing the point. Besides the fact the provider refused, the issue is what she asked civil servants to do on her behalf. And “high profile clients” (celebrities) are not elected representatives required to observe the ministerial code/Nolan principles

Nick Freeman

@TheMrLoophole

1 year

She hasn`t broken law or done anything wrong. I`ve arranged private courses for several high profile clients. In fact course providers prefer it as less disruptive. If #SuellaBraverman had lawyer wouldn`t have been political fall out due to confidentiality

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

2 years

Just walked by two people sitting outside of a coffee shop watching PMQs on their mobiles. Which is a first…

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

3 years

Exclusive: Telegraph has obtained leaked data showing that, as of last Thursday, just 44 per cent of patients classed as being hospitalised with Covid had tested positive before admission. MPs now demanding the data breakdown is published

Exclusive: Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission

Leaked data suggest vast numbers classed as being hospitalised by the virus when they were admitted with other ailments

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

7 years

Lord Buckethead has arrived at the Maidenhead count. He's complaining about the state of his Pizza Express. #GE2017

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

1 year

Exclusive: The teacher pay review body has recommended to ministers a 6.5% increase in pay for 2023/24 That’s significantly higher than the DfE’s offer to the unions and way above the Treasury’s ceiling Yet another major headache for Rishi Sunak

Teachers ‘should get 6.5% rise’ says pay body as doctors plan strikes

Teachers should be given a 6.5 per cent wage rise this year, the independent pay award body has recommended, despite warnings from the Treasury that it could he

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

1 year

Very simple question for the Government today - as it tries to explain away the Richard Sharp story Why did Boris Johnson’s *own cousin* need Sharp, who was at that point in the running to become Chairman of the BBC, to be involved and introduce him to the Cabinet Secretary?

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

7 months

Rarely been more depressed by state of our media/political ecosystem than last night - dozens of news outlets running unverified claims on such highly sensitive subject when the M East is a tinder box - senior politicians rushing to apportion blame - this platform is the pits

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

1 year

How can you determine whether something is “unambiguously irrelevant” if you aren’t actually in possession of it?

Tamara Cohen

@tamcohen

1 year

Two weeks ago, the Cabinet Office said Whatsapp threads - even those "with a title or purpose which concerns Covid 19" contain material "unambiguously irrelevant to the inquiry". It turns out they haven't got Johnson Whatsapps or written diaries.

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

2 months

Exclusive: Gove is fighting to salvage his leasehold reforms after No10/Treasury axed one of his key proposals Gove wanted to reduce all ground rents to a peppercorn rent, which he hoped would lead to a phase-out of the system That plan is now dead 1/8

Leasehold dream over as Gove plan quietly crumbles

Treasury fears move would have wiped up to £40bn off pension fund investment

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

4 years

Now Lord Lamont, a former chancellor and prominent Brexiteer, is saying he doesn't think the Internal Market Bill can get through the Lords.

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

3 years

Breaking: Understand Dominic Raab has written to European Council pres Charles Michel this evening after he made false claims about UK operating a vaccine export ban. The letter sets record straight and urges EU to need for unity on pandemic. EU rep has also been summoned.

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1 year

Additional detail: Back in Jan, when we revealed Sharp's involvement in Johnson loan talks, he did interview with BBC He said he was driven to Chequers by Blyth When we put that to his spokesman this weekend, he said Sharp no longer recalls how he got there

Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

1 year

Sharp & Blyth visited Chequers for dinner w/ Johnson on 2 May 2021. They did so at a time when household mixing indoors was banned & social distancing rules were in place. Sharp has said he was driven there by Blyth. Sharp and Johnson say dinner was outdoors & lawful 2/4

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

4 months

🚨Exclusive: A new poll commissioned by Arron Banks suggests that Farage would win were he to stand in Douglas Carswell's old seat of Clacton Farage told me: "This poll does make me consider getting back on the pitch far more seriously than ever before”

The poll that could push Nigel Farage back into politics

The former Ukip leader says he hasn’t decided whether to get ‘back on the pitch’ — but Essex is his best bet

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

2 years

Most of what is disclosed in today's report on Bercow was known 3-4 years ago when Newsnight and a number of newspapers reported extensively on allegations levelled against him The fact it is only now being acted upon is down to the MPs who sought to protect him

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

4 years

New: I understand there is now real concern at top of Labour Party over the number of potential legal actions over leaked AS report. There are now at least 40 potential civil claims, being handled by 2 law firms, and a plausible threat of bankruptcy.

Jeremy Corbyn accused of unleashing wave of legal claims that could bankrupt Labour

A shadow cabinet minister told The Telegraph: 'This is the Corbyn legacy. People should be angry'

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

6 years

Laura Kuenssberg has just pointed out that for all of Ian Blackford's theatrics, if he'd just sat down and did as he was told, the SNP would have been granted the devolution debate they have been furiously calling for. He doesn't have an answer for that.

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

3 years

Looks like the French fishermen are calling it a day Understandable (If they stayed any longer they'd probably have to go on strike for working too long)

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

1 year

Richard Sharp’s whole defence as to why he did not need to disclose his role in talks over Johnson loan rested on the assurances he was given in his private meeting with Simon Case Sharp said that Case took notes The Cabinet Office now says there are none

Gabriel Pogrund

@Gabriel_Pogrund

1 year

NEW: There are no minutes of Richard Sharp's meeting with Simon Case in Dec 2020, says Cabinet Office Soon after PM appointed BBC chair- and got loan of up to £800k So no record of key summit which Sharp says avoided potential conflict of interest- and which MPs say created one

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Harry Yorke

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1 year

But what we revealed was that, unknown to both Simon Case and Lord Geidt (who gave advice on the permissibility of the loan) Blyth was in contention for the CEO job at the British Council at the very same time he was discussing providing financial assistance to the then PM 3/8

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

2 years

David Davis has just told the Prime Minister to resign in the Commons during PMQs. Huge moment

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

2 years

Some personal news: delighted to announce I’ll be joining The Sunday Times as deputy political editor early next year. I’ve had a great 6 years with The Telegraph and will miss all of my colleagues, but very excited to be starting a new challenge.

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

2 years

Following our latest disclosures, Keir Starmer has written to Holac urging the commission to publish its advice to the PM on Lebedev and to review his position in the House of Lords. Letter here:

Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

2 years

EXCLUSIVE w/ @Gabriel_Pogrund The head of MI6 had concerns about Boris Johnson’s friend Evgeny Lebedev almost a decade ago In 2013, Sir John Sawers repeatedly rejected bid by KGB agent’s son to meet at MI6 HQ No10 doesn't deny PM knew about incident

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

1 year

We don't know because the Government won't tell us Johnson denies he was ever aware of cousin's interest Blyth's familial link to Johnson was not disclosed. It was only discovered later by the British Council chair, who encouraged him to drop out of race 5/8

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Harry Yorke

@HarryYorke1

2 years

A reminder that asylum seekers can’t be held at Manston for more than 24 hours. That’s not “premature release” - it’s the law

Paul Waugh

@paulwaugh

2 years

In trying to double down on her policy on Manston, Suella Braverman just seemed to confirm the main charge against her. Said she actively decided not to "prematurely release" asylum seekers from the holding centre.

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