David Cameron ‘lobbied ANOTHER Tory Treasury minister for loans’ to rescue collapsed finance firm Greensill David Cameron ‘contacted financial secretary to the Treasury Jesse Norman’ Did so while trying to get access to chancellor Rishi Sunak, it has been claimed Norman known to the PM, serving as Downing Street policy advisor from 2013 By Henry … Read more
Rishi Sunak broke his silence over the David Cameron lobbying row today with a swipe at the former Tory prime minister. The Chancellor did not deny that Mr Cameron directly contacted him seeking million in Covid aid cash to help bail out financier Greensill Capital before it went bust. But in a cutting comment he … Read more
Tory MPs have vowed to carry a pint of milk around as a symbol of protest against draconian coronavirus laws – amid warnings Boris Johnson will face demands to recall Parliament if he announces crunch decisions on lockdown during the Easter recess. In a slightly surreal act of defiance, Sir Charles Walker has insisted he … Read more
Tory MPs have blasted Nicola Sturgeon over her pre-election pledge to boost the pay of NHS staff by four per cent as they claimed she could never afford such a move if Scotland was independent. The SNP leader trolled Boris Johnson by announcing the policy last night in what critics viewed as a blatant giveaway … Read more
Boris Johnson will face the wrath of his own lockdown-sceptic backbenchers today as he pushes through an extension of lockdown laws until the autumn. A hardcore of Conservative MPs is expected to rebel against Government plans to extend emergency powers to the end of September, despite the lockdown officially ending in June. Politicians in the … Read more
Boris Johnson is facing a Tory revolt over the speed of his lockdown exit strategy as angry MPs said the Government’s approach seemed to be based on ‘dates, not data’. The Conservative rebels pointed to the fact that more than 26million people in the UK have now received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine … Read more
Police probe claims Tory councillor racially abused mother-of-two in row over parking as she collected her daughter from £33,000-a-year private school Councillor Stuart Tranter confronted driver outside King’s School in Rochester Mother claims she was verbal abused after pulling up in her BMW X7 on Tuesday Police confirmed they are investigating incident reported as ‘racially motivated’ By … Read more
Tory bosses ‘withdraw funding from Shaun Bailey’s London Mayor campaign and dub him worst candidate in history leaving capital facing four more years of Sadiq Khan’ Shaun Bailey will contest London Mayor elections against incumbent Sadiq Khan The election will take place in May – a year after being delayed by the pandemic However, sources … Read more
Panicking Tory chiefs are considering returning £60,000 to a rich donor to gloss over the way the party secretly funded the makeover of Boris Johnson‘s Downing Street flat, it was claimed last night. After handing the money back to multi-millionaire Lord Brownlow, they reportedly plan to ask him to pay the same amount directly to … Read more
Tory MP David Davis reveals explosive emails and texts claiming Nicola Sturgeon’s chief of staff knew about Alex Salmond complaints two months earlier than she says and was ‘interfering’ in the process David Davis used parliamentary privilege in the Commons to reveal messages He said that a whistleblower passed him messages between senior SNP official … Read more