No 10 announces review into ‘cost and practicality’ of Boris Johnson’s £20billion bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland No 10 said review will explore the ‘cost, practicality and demand’ for a fixed link Some critics have already dismissed the idea as impractical and waste of money Prime Minister Boris Johnson has mooted the bridge idea a … Read more
Government’s law officer for Scotland Lord Keen resigns over Boris Johnson’s plans to tear up parts of the Brexit divorce deal Lord Keen of Elie serves as the Government’s Advocate General for Scotland He offered his resignation to Boris Johnson this morning over PM’s Brexit plans Downing Street announced this afternoon Lord Keen had left … Read more
Government’s law officer for Scotland Lord Keen ‘resigns’ over Boris Johnson’s plans to tear up parts of the Brexit divorce deal Lord Keen of Elie serves as the Government’s Advocate General for Scotland Reports claim he offered his resignation to Boris Johnson over PM’s Brexit plans It comes after he clashed with Northern Ireland Secretary … Read more
The controversial Internal Markets bill has passed its first two House of Commons hurdles this evening as the Labour bid to get it thrown out failed – despite fears over it breaking international law. Boris Johnson has said the legislation was necessary to prevent the EU taking an ‘extreme and unreasonable’ interpretation of the provisions … Read more
Justice Secretary Robert Buckland today repeatedly dodged questions over whether he will resign if the Government goes ahead with its plans to break international law over Brexit. Mr Buckland, who as Lord Chancellor has taken an oath to protect the rule of law, said Boris Johnson‘s proposals to tear up parts of the EU divorce … Read more
Boris Johnson‘s push to get Britons back to the office suffered another blow today with a poll showing that three-quarters want to keep working from home. Research for MailOnline found 74 per cent who had been doing their job at home during lockdown would prefer to continue to do so, at least some of the … Read more
One of the UK’s biggest employers is planning to close nearly 100 offices permanently in a crushing blow to the Prime Minister’s campaign to get Britain back to work. The Mail on Sunday can reveal that Capita – the giant Government contractor that collects the BBC licence fee, runs the London congestion charge and provides … Read more
Union chiefs have slammed Boris Johnson’s order to return thousands of civil servants to their desks and insisted they won’t be used ‘as an example to get everybody back to work’. The Prime Minister has told mandarins to tear up the ‘work from home’ guidance which has been in place since March and start getting officials back … Read more
Around 100 people are financially crippled by sky-high social care bills every week, a charity warns today. Boris Johnson, who celebrates the first anniversary of his arrival in Downing Street today, promised on the steps of No 10 exactly a year ago that no one would have to sell their home to fund vital help. … Read more
Boris Johnson‘s clarion call for the nation’s workforce to return to offices will fall on deaf ears for swathes of employers and employees, they tell MailOnline. The Prime Minister urged businesses operating remotely to ‘get back into work’ to breathe life back into the cash-starved high street and jump-start the recovery. He said yesterday: ‘It’s … Read more