Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden has resigned after two humiliating by-election defeats. In a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson the Tory MP said “someone must take responsibility” for the losses in Tiverton and Honiton to the Lib Dems and Wakefield to Labour. The contests, triggered by the resignation of disgraced Tories, offered voters the
Boris Johnson faces fresh demands to “come clean” about parties in Downing Street after reports emerged that the Prime Minister’s wife, Carrie Johnson, may now have had two lockdown parties in family flat above No 10. Labour has called for an investigation into leaked texts suggesting there was a second gathering in Boris Johnson’s Downing
Boris Johnson faces the threat of a national public sector strike over plans to axe tens of thousands of civil service jobs. The Prime Minister put himself on a collision course with trade unions after it was revealed he has tasked his Cabinet with cutting about 90,000 jobs. Unions reacted with fury after Johnson told
A homegrown terrorist has been found guilty of stabbing Sir David Amess to death and plotting to attack other MPs including Michael Gove. Islamic State fanatic Ali Harbi Ali, 26, carried out the “cold and calculating” murder at the veteran MP’s constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on October 15 last year. He told the Old
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