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‘Don’t wobble’ plea to PM over third runway: Fears that Boris will use court defeat as an excuse to shelve £14bn Heathrow project Judges last year gave the green light for Heathrow’s third runway to be built But opponents will this week find out if they have won legal fight to block it PM Boris … Read more
HARRY COLE: Here comes the girls! Boris Johnson promotes first of his rising star female MPs By Harry Cole For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:45 GMT, 23 February 2020 | Updated: 00:51 GMT, 23 February 2020 Boris Johnson has promoted the first swathe of rising-star female MPs from the 2019 intake. Fourteen Tories first elected … Read more
PM draws up mandarin ‘hit list’: Tories plan purge of senior civil servants amid concerns at heated clashes with ministers Three Whitehall permanent secretaries are now in the firing line of Number 10 Treasury’s Sir Tom Scholar is one of the mandarins at risk for frustrating Brexit Sir Philip Rutnam, who locked horns with Home … Read more
Donald Trump has described Boris Johnson’s decision to allow the Chinese company Huawei a role in building the UK’s 5G network as a ‘betrayal’ – as the security row places relations between London and Washington under increasing strain. The US President is understood to have used the term to a senior White House figure after he … Read more
Brussels has lost its marbles! EU leaders ‘divided and distracted’ ahead of next month’s crunch trade talks, say British officials UK negotiators have been privately mocking delays and confusion in Brussels Divided over whether Britain should be forced to return Elgin Marbles to Greece Boris Johnson’s chief negotiator David Frost to demand Canada-style trade deal By … Read more
‘It’s going to be tense’: Emmanuel Macron casts doubt on Boris Johnson’s hopes of striking a Brexit trade deal by December and sets stage for showdown over fisheries Whitehall and Brussels trade negotiators will lock horns next month for talks PM has promised to rip up any agreement which shackles UK to EU rule book … Read more
David Dimbleby has launched a savage attack on ‘lying’ Boris Johnson’s ‘pernicious’ attempt to curb the BBC licence fee. The veteran broadcaster accused the Prime Minister of using the issue to undermine the corporation and avoid having his policies scrutinised. He said Mr Johnson ‘doesn’t give a damn’ about fairness because his landslide election victory … Read more
Manchester City ‘hire £20,000-a-day lawyer who helped block Brexit twice’ in bid to get their two-year ban from European football thrown out Manchester City have drafted in the lawyer who helped block Brexit twice David Pannick QC represented Gina Miller in her successful legal challenges City are reportedly paying Mr Pannick £20,000 a day for … Read more
Boris Johnson unveils new blue passport as Britain reverts back to the colour of its original document post-Brexit PM pictured holding a blue passport on a flight to Newcastle on day of Brexit The blue passports will be sent out at the end of March after 30-year hiatus British passports were dark blue from the inception … Read more
Tory MPs have vowed to battle any move to increase fuel duty for 37 million hard-pressed motorists in next month’s Budget. Reports suggested new Chancellor Rishi Sunak might contemplate a 2p per litre rise in line with inflation, the first increase in a decade. The move, said to have originated with No 10 chief aide … Read more