Boris Johnson was last night facing calls to delay this week’s GCSE results as the exam fiasco worsened. He is facing growing anger from his own party over the ‘huge mess’ surrounding the A-level results of millions of teenagers. Lord Baker, who introduced the GCSE system, said Thursday’s results announcement should be delayed by two … Read more
Tories suspend activist who tweeted that Bradford-born Labour shadow minister Naz Shah ‘should go back to Pakistan’ Conservatives said Theodora Dickinson was being investigated on Friday She targeted Labour shadow minister and Bradford West MP Naz Shah Ms Dickinson, who deleted the tweet almost immediately, later apologised By Georgia Simcox For Mailonline and Pa Published: … Read more
No more U-turns! Angry Tories give Boris Johnson a roasting over his failure to scrap the two-metre rule and a series of embarrassing climbdowns The PM has been accused of not listening to MPs, which has resulted in U-turns Mr Johnson is also under pressure to scrap the two-metre social distancing rule He received criticism … Read more
Billionaire property developer Richard Desmond gave Tories £12k two weeks after his plans got the go-ahead from Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick Richard Desmond donated £12k to Tory party fortnight after plans got go ahead Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick unlawfully approved Desmond’s scheme Tower Hamlets Council previously rejected his plan to build 1,500 homes Only 21 per … Read more
Senior Tories say ‘bl**dy boring’ daily No10 coronavirus briefings should be scaled back to once a week to ‘normalise’ the country and stop the government feeling obliged to announce things Daily Downing Street briefings have been held on coroanvirus since mid-March Senior Tories say the government is under pressure to make announcements Calls for the … Read more
Senior Tory MPs have urged Boris Johnson to reduce the UK’s two metre social distancing rule as they warned failure to do so could risk a wave of redundancies in the hospitality sector. There is a growing campaign for the existing restriction to be eased to one and a half metres. This would give pubs, … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Virus or no virus, the Conservatives need to deliver on their promise to bring back prosperity to the regions By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 24 May 2020 | Updated: 22:24 BST, 24 May 2020 Remember the Red Wall? Rather like Brexit, the seismic shift in UK politics – … Read more
A deep split has opened up in the Government over a trade deal with Donald Trump, with the Cabinet Minister in charge of negotiations accused of planning to turn Britain into a ‘pariah state’ by allowing the import of cheap foods pumped with antibiotics and hormones. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss has clashed with Environment … Read more
Ever since Chancellor Rishi Sunak turned on the spending taps to save Britain’s businesses amid the lockdown, there have been grumblings in the Tory Party about the gigantic bill that will need paying after the crisis. One can therefore only imagine how they’ll react on discovering that the party’s own coffers could also soon run … Read more
Ministers are underestimating the public by refusing to discuss exit strategies for ending the coronavirus lockdown, senior Tory MPs have warned. The Government has set out what needs to happen before it will consider lifting the measures, but there has been no detail on how the easing of restrictions will take place. Tory backbenchers and … Read more