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Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:51:49 GMT
Boris Johnson news – live: MPs claim £1.3m in rent while letting homes as sleaze row puts Labour ahead in poll
Latest updates as they happen

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:22:33 GMT
Nearly 1,000 migrants cross English Channel to reach UK in new daily record
Over 100,000 people have arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean so far this year

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:21:58 GMT
Revealed: 17 MPs claim £1.3m in rent from taxpayer – while letting their own homes
Exclusive: Five ministers have put rent on expenses while collecting on homes they own in London

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:14:53 GMT
Boris Johnson faces legal challenge over backing for Priti Patel on bullying claims
Judicial review on PM’s decision to support home secretary takes place next week

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:57:37 GMT
Meghan aide ‘regretted’ not giving evidence in High Court privacy battle
Court of Appeal set to rule on newspaper’s bid to overturn privacy judgement

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:46:22 GMT
Prince Charles’ former aide quits as charity boss over cash-for-honours claims
Clarence House said Prince Charles had “no knowledge” of his former right-hand man’s alleged behaviour

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:13:44 GMT
Brexit: EU to tell Frost talks doomed unless he drops European court demand
Talks aimed at avoiding a trade war take place in ‘gloomy atmosphere’

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:00:33 GMT
New Home Office policy risks ‘driving human trafficking victims underground’, experts warn
Government’s own modern slavery tsar says she is ‘extremely concerned’ about plans to grant immigration enforcement teams power to make decisions on trafficking cases

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 05:37:22 GMT
Tory MP who said Marcus Rashford should stick to his day job has second job
Backbencher working hundreds of hours a year away from parliament

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 01:33:39 GMT
Remembrance Sunday 2021: Queen to attend service at Cenotaph
The 95-year-old monarch will miss General Synod next week though

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:27:50 GMT
Government rejects controversial plan for tulip-shaped skyscraper in London
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan say building would be ‘little more than a concrete lift shaft with a viewing gallery at the top’

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:29:50 GMT
Royal British Legion suspends sales of ‘Pull The Pin’ commemorative rum on Armistice Day
Product is made by Devon firm run by ex-forces veteran who wanted to thank charity for support

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:25:56 GMT
Boris Johnson risks Thatcher-style felling by own MPs if he doesn’t fix sleaze, Tory grandee warns
Party notoriously ruthless when ‘prime ministers are deemed to have outlived their usefulness’, Malcolm Rifkind warns

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:22:30 GMT
Geoffrey Cox’s other controversies, from foxhunting to welfare cuts and climate change
Ex-attorney general advised PM proroguing parliament was legal and voted against steps to curb the climate crisis

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:17:21 GMT
London’s Night Tube drivers to stage strike on reopening date in row over staffing
Union says drivers’ work-life balance under threat

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:02:52 GMT
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband says meeting with UK minister ‘depressing’, as talks with Iran stall
Senior Iranian official in London for talks over potential release of British national

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:43:50 GMT
‘Dilapidated’ child prison to remain open as government ‘secure school’ plans delayed for another year
Anger as ‘chaotic’ G4S-run jail to remain open and plans for alternative facility postponed until 2023

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:15:47 GMT
Cop26: Johnson’s hopes of breakthrough climate deal slipping away
Prime minister urged to return to Glasgow to get deal over line

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:05:21 GMT
MP accused of getting drunk on Armistice Day flight says medication was to blame
‘I wasn’t counting. It was less than five drinks,’ Charlotte Nichols reportedly says

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:15:31 GMT
Tory MP denies faking visits in his constituency after posting same photo three times
‘This is not the first time I have reused a photo when forgetting to take one and I am sure it will not be the last,’ Don Valley MP says

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:50:31 GMT
Keir Starmer denies Jeremy Corbyn blocked his plan for second job with law firm
Spotlight falls on Labour leader’s past outside earnings – including almost £10,000 advising government of Gibraltar

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:43:39 GMT
Afghan baby born without doctor in London hotel room as thousands of evacuees still ‘living in limbo’
Incident shows ‘cold reality’ facing Afghan evacuees, says charity worker

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:33:06 GMT
Slovakia rejects proposed law restricting access to abortion
Lawmakers in Slovakia have narrowly rejected proposed legislation that would have tightened access to abortion in the European Union country

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:06:52 GMT
Tax domestic flights to fund rail fare cuts, public say
But government has been making rail fares more expensive while cutting taxes on domestic flights

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:05:58 GMT
UK an ‘enabler’ of corruption, Nigerian anti-sleaze tsar tells Boris Johnson in stinging rebuke
‘Global elite loot their countries and rush to London’, prime minister told – as broken promise attacked

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 17:54:37 GMT
Meghan Markle news: Final arguments heard in Mail on Sunday appeal over letter publication
Follow the latest updates from the Court of Appeal

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 17:54:01 GMT
How did the Thames recover from being a ‘dead’ river to homing venomous sharks?
London’s storied waterway now home to unexpected collection of fish, mammals and birds and thriving salt marshes but was once a stinking open sewer rife with cholera

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 17:01:32 GMT
Cop26: Negotiators face ‘monumental challenge’ as summit running out of time, says Sharma
Fears that horse-trading in final days will scrub progress on fossil fuels from agreement

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:33:07 GMT
Booster jab will be needed for Covid pass in future, Sajid Javid hints
Health secretary suggests France-style crackdown on the cards, saying ‘We will have to look at what constitutes vaccination’

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:30:19 GMT
Sudanese general tightens grip on power, 2 weeks after coup
Sudan’s top general has re-appointed himself as head of the army-run interim governing body, a sign that he is tightening his grip on the country, two weeks after he led a coup against civilian leaders

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:24:33 GMT
Tiernan Darnton: Student who admitted he killed grandmother in truth or dare game found guilty
‘I have a secret I haven’t told anyone. I may have killed someone,’ Tiernan Darnton told friends

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:17:38 GMT
Uber increases London fares for first time since 2017
Passengers travelling to airports at peak times will also face an additional 15 per cent charge

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:15:42 GMT
Stop stalling on MP second jobs restrictions, government’s standards chief warns
Standards committee recommended partial MP jobs ban as far back as 2018

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:56:43 GMT
Man charged with terror offence after wearing T-shirt ‘promoting banned group’
Feras al-Jayoosi, 34, is accused over incidents in Swindon and Golders Green, in London

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:53:53 GMT
Man who was told he could keep £110k put in his account ordered to pay it back
He was wrongly advised the money was his to keep before it was taken back in addition to £6,000 of his own money

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:01:43 GMT
Government appoints ex-Tory advisor married to Tory MP to help pick media regulator
Former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre is No.10’s pick to chair Ofcom

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:37:35 GMT
CCTV image released after woman raped in Camden alleyway
‘Someone knows who this man is and we need you to come forward,’ says investigating officer

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 13:48:36 GMT
Afghan girls from youth football team who escaped Taliban ‘haven’t got any’ home in UK
Exclusive: ‘They need just not a new home but they need a new home where they can continue to be a team,’ says Human Rights Watch

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 13:24:54 GMT
‘A farce’: Jamaica charter flight leaves UK with four people on board after dozens found to have right to stay
There is renewed concern about the efficacy of UK deportation policy as many Jamaican nationals were taken off the flight at the eleventh hour

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:09:52 GMT
Geoffrey Cox timeline: How the Tory MP became embroiled in second jobs scandal
Ex-attorney general among wealthiest MPs in Commons and has made millions from carrying out legal work alongside his parliamentary duties

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:52:28 GMT
Geoffrey Cox ‘rents out flat taxpayers helped fund while claiming for second home’
Sir Geoffrey claims £1,900 per month for accommodation costs

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:45:07 GMT
School bus carrying dozens of children overturns in Lincolnshire
Police said no serious injuries but one child in hospital with broken arm

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:36:25 GMT
Tory MP defends extra 30 hours work a week for councils, saying the roles are ‘complementary’
Ben Bradley said his job as a council leader benefited his constituents and condemned MP’s who lobby on behalf of private business

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:24:34 GMT
Mail on Sunday’s legal battle against ruling over Meghan Markle letter enters final day
Publisher’s lawyers focus on witness statement made by Duchess of Sussex’s former aide

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:19:06 GMT
Pfizer ‘fair vaccine distribution claims misleading,’ says Amnesty
Amnesty International has accused Pfizer of prioritising profit over fair vaccine distribution



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