Drone strike on Saudi site sends oil to two-year high: Iran-backed rebels target Aramco HQ By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 22:17 GMT, 8 March 2021 | Updated: 22:17 GMT, 8 March 2021 Oil prices rose to their highest levels in almost two years following an attack on a huge crude facility in … Read more
Boris Johnson yesterday threatened to expel any Tory MP who votes against next week’s Budget, as he tried to head off a growing revolt over the threat of tax rises. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is facing a mounting backlash over reported plans to increase both corporation tax and potentially capital gains tax (CGT). The Treasury has … Read more
A civilian plane has caught fire in Saudi Arabia after an airport was attacked by Houthis rebels, local media reports said on Wednesday. Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels are said to have targeted the Abha International Airport in the south-west of the country, causing a passenger plane on the tarmac to catch fire, according to the … Read more
Tory MPs have urged Boris Johnson to publish a ‘clear road map’ to start easing the national lockdown from March 8 as they warned the Prime Minister there ‘cannot be any more excuses’. Mark Harper, the Tory chairman of the lockdown-sceptic Covid Recovery Group, said the Government needs to give people ‘hope’ while ‘businesses need … Read more
Furious Tory rebels today demanded Michael Gove publish the evidence underpinning his claim the NHS would be ‘overwhelmed’ by coronavirus without the Government’s new tiered system of restrictions. The Minister for the Cabinet Office made the claim on Saturday as he tried to quash a Conservative revolt and persuade MPs to support the curbs when … Read more
Boris Johnson was under mounting pressure to change course on his coronavirus lockdown plans tonight after another sharp fall in infections. As scores of Tory backbenchers threaten to rebel in a crunch vote next week, the latest figures showed the UK had 16,022 more cases – down more than a fifth on last Friday’s number. … Read more
Boris Johnson was facing a growing north and south revolt over lockdown today as some of his newest MPs demanded he produce an exit strategy for some of the areas worst hit by the second wave of the pandemic. In the biggest Tory challenge to his leadership since the general election a group of 54 … Read more
Married At First Sight’s Stacey Hampton is getting a tattoo dedicated to her Rebels’ bikie boss ex lasered off – amid rumours she is back together with Michael Goonan By Candice Jackson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:29 BST, 30 September 2020 | Updated: 01:45 BST, 30 September 2020 Married At First Sight‘s Stacey Hampton … Read more
Desperate Matt Hancock hinted at concessions tonight as he faced the fury of Tory MPs over plunging the country into a new coronavirus lockdown. The Health Secretary was repeatedly assailed by MPs as he updated the Commons on the day that another raft of new rules and punishments came into force. He said restrictions will … Read more
Can Tory rebels defeat Boris Johnson in vote on ‘draconian’ coronavirus laws? MPs’ anger grows over use of emergency powers to introduce tough new pandemic restrictions More than 50 MPs have signed an amendment laid down by Sir Graham Brady They are demanding votes before any future curbs on British ‘liberty’ brought in Labour and the … Read more